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title: About Autter - The Team Behind Your AI Code Review Teammate
description: Autter is the AI teammate for code review and testing that your team has been missing. The Friday deploy that started it, the merge gate we built in response, and the small crew behind it.
url: https://autter.dev/about
site: Autter - Autter is your AI teammate for code review and testing: it reviews code, tests product impact, checks security, governs releases, and closes the loop from production failure to verified fix.
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## Company facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Company | Autter |
| Product | Your AI teammate for code review and testing: code review, product impact testing, security checks, and release governance |
| Founded | 2026 |
| Stage | Pre-launch, with a waitlist and a product almost ready to ship |
| Team | Two co-founders, hiring deliberately (small on purpose) |
| Co-founder, Tech | Sagnik. Writes the scanner, ships the blog, answers every technical support email himself |
| Co-founder, GTM | Tanvi. Positioning, partnerships, and distribution |
| Mascot | Captain Patch, the otter "harbour auditor" who opens every crate instead of trusting the manifest |
| Location | Remote (IST timezone) |
| Website | https://autter.dev · docs at https://autter.dev/docs |

## The evidence behind the mission

- **77%** of developers use AI coding tools (Stack Overflow Developer Survey, 2024).
- **1.7×** more bugs in AI-generated code than human-written code (GitClear, analysis of 211M lines).
- **0** tools ran code before merge when the founders went looking, so they built one.

## Operating principles

1. **Block the merge, don't advise.** A check you can ignore is just advice. Execution is the only pre-production check that catches what static analysis cannot see.
2. **Risk = damage × spread.** A one-line change to a shared helper deserves more scrutiny than a hundred lines in a leaf module.
3. **Five real issues beat fifty uncertain flags.** A tool people learn to ignore is actively harmful.
4. **Every finding ships with an explanation and a fix.** The maintainer is the customer, not the dashboard.
5. **Built from scratch in 2026.** Tools designed for human-written code were not built for the current landscape.

## Origin, in one paragraph

One Friday afternoon a pull request written with an AI assistant passed the linter, the syntax check, and human review, and shipped an import for a library that did not exist. Production broke Monday morning; three engineers lost half a day to land a four-line fix. The founders went looking for a tool that runs code before merge, verifies imports against real registries, and maps what a change can break. There wasn't one, so they built it.