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Respan (YC W24) — Self-driving observability, evals, and gateway for AI agents

Respan gives teams a unified control plane to trace and evaluate agent behavior without guesswork, automatically surface issues, and fix what breaks faster. Respan connects production observability, automated and human-in-the-loop evaluations, and an adaptive AI gateway to close the loop between detection, decision, and action - so agents improve continuously in production.

Respan is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2024 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Self-driving observability, evals, and gateway for AI agents. The founder listed is Andy Li (Founder/CEO) (Y Combinator directory entry, March 22, 2024).

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Respan

New accelerator entry · 2024-03-22 · the record

Winter 2024
batch
23
people
Early
stage
United States of America
region
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BatchWinter 2024
Announced2024-03-22
StageEarly
StatusActive
Team size23
IndustryB2B
Sub-industryB2B -> Infrastructure
SectorsAIOps, Developer Tools, SaaS, Monitoring, AI
RegionsUnited States of America, America / Canada, Remote, Partly Remote
BasedSan Francisco, CA, USA
HiringYes
Sitehttps://respan.ai
Previously known asKeywords AI

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Respan gives teams a unified control plane to trace and evaluate agent behavior without guesswork, automatically surface issues, and fix what breaks faster. Respan connects production observability, automated and human-in-the-loop evaluations, and an adaptive AI gateway to close the loop between detection, decision, and action - so agents improve continuously in production. Today, the platform process 1B+ logs and 2T+ tokens every month, supporting more than 6.5M end users.

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