Kestrel AI
Kestrel AI is a YC Fall 2025 (F25) company. Based in San Francisco, CA, USA. Team of 2.
About Kestrel AI
Summary
Kestrel AI builds an AI agent platform for platform engineering teams, automating incident response, cloud provisioning, CI/CD pipelines, and developer requests. Engineers describe a workflow in plain English and Kestrel generates a deterministic, production-ready automation graph that executes across their stack, replacing manual triage, root-cause investigation, and remediation work that previously took hours.
Business model
A free tier plus paid plans, with self-serve onboarding requiring no credit card.
Go-to-market
Platform engineering teams at cloud-native companies are the buyers; they start self-serve through a free tier with onboarding in seconds, with a demo booking path for teams that want a sales conversation.
From the Y Combinator listing
AI-Native Cloud Incident Response Platform
Kestrel is an AI-native cloud incident response platform that brings self-healing to cloud infrastructure. It monitors cloud and kubernetes infrastructure 24/7, finds root causes, and generates exact fixes - so incidents get resolved in seconds instead of hours.
Facts
- B2B / B2B -> Security
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- 2
- Active
- Early
Founders (2)
- Evan Chopra
- Raman Varma
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