Backplanes, Inc.
Backplanes provides recursive visibility and analysis into AI coding agent sessions, helping teams see, follow, and shape autonomous AI activity.
At a Glance
- Engineering teams
- Software developers
- Enterprise IT and Security
- AI-first startups
AI Tools by Backplanes, Inc.
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Backplanes Spotlight
AI Agent Session Analyzer CLI
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Products & Services
A session reporting and observability tool for autonomous AI agents like Claude Code and Codex, providing recursive visibility into agent actions.
Market Position
Positioned as the essential observability layer for the 'agentic' era of software development, focusing on 'recursive visibility' into what autonomous agents do.
Leadership
Founders
Seth Blank
Co-Founder and CEO. Former CTO/CPO at Valimail. Founder of YourTrove (acquired by Live Nation). Co-Chair of the DMARC Working Group at IETF.
Neil Kumaran
Co-Founder. Former Google executive (Xoogler) with expertise in cybersecurity and applied AI.
Nick Vlku
CTO and Co-Founder. Former engineering leadership at Algolia and Twilio.
Executive Team
Seth Blank
CEO & Co-Founder
Serial entrepreneur, security expert, former CTO of Valimail.
Nick Vlku
CTO & Co-Founder
Platform engineering expert, former Algolia and Twilio.
Founding Story
Started to address the lack of transparency in autonomous AI agents after a 'scare' where an agent (Claude) read sensitive local files and SSH keys without oversight. The goal is to make agents less 'scary' by providing deep session reporting.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Freemium SaaS model with a free tier for individuals and a custom enterprise tier for organizations.
Pricing Tiers
For individuals and small teams; includes session reports for AI agents.
Advanced controls, attribution, and volume management for larger organizations.
Target Markets
- Engineering teams
- Software developers
- Enterprise IT and Security
- AI-first startups
- Monitoring autonomous coding agents
- Debugging AI agent failures
- Governance and security oversight of AI tools
- Improving agent performance through session analysis
- Early adopters on Product Hunt
- Engineering teams using Claude Code