Inspector
Inspector helps technology companies avoid losing customers and money because of technical problems in their applications. Its product is a code-execution/application-monitoring platform for PHP applications, with a growing focus on debugging agentic PHP workflows.
At a Glance
- PHP software development teams
- Laravel, Symfony, CodeIgniter, and raw-PHP application teams
- SaaS and technology companies
- Teams operating production web applications
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Visual Editor for AI Coding Agents
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Products & Services
Hosted real-time code-execution and application-monitoring service that traces transactions/events, surfaces errors and bottlenecks, and provides dashboards, notifications, projects, and team access for PHP applications.
AI-assisted debugging capability that uses Inspector application data to help developers investigate and fix PHP application problems.
Open-source PHP framework for production-ready agentic applications, including agents, toolkits, RAG, workflows, multi-provider LLM support, UI protocols, and observability. Inspector is the company funding and creating the framework.
MCP-based coding-agent integration allowing AI assistants to inspect and debug PHP applications through Inspector.
Market Position
Inspector positions itself as a developer-focused, PHP-native alternative to broader application-observability products such as Sentry, Datadog, and New Relic. Its differentiation is execution-level visibility for PHP, transaction-based pricing with unlimited events, no server installation, direct developer support, AI-assisted debugging, and Neuron AI observability for PHP agent workflows.
Leadership
Founders
Valerio Barbera
Software engineer and Laravel-certified developer with more than 10 years of experience in Italy and France; CTO of Inspector and its technical/product founder.
Sebastiano Sicignano
Inspector co-founder and CEO; worked with Valerio Barbera and Francesco since 2011 through earlier entrepreneurial ventures.
Francesco Criscuolo
Inspector co-founder responsible for marketing/content; has worked with Barbera and Sicignano since 2011 and led the company’s developer-content strategy.
Executive Team
Sebastiano Sicignano
CEO
Co-founder; has worked with the other founders since 2011 through earlier entrepreneurial ventures.
Valerio Barbera
CTO
Software engineer, Laravel-certified developer, and technical founder with more than a decade of experience in Italy and France; creator of Neuron AI.
Board of Directors
Founding Story
Inspector was started by Valerio Barbera, Sebastiano Sicignano, and Francesco Criscuolo after working together since 2011 in other entrepreneurial ventures. The initial vision was to give software teams real-time visibility into what their applications were doing, helping them identify bugs and bottlenecks before customers encountered them; the company also built a content-led developer-education effort around application monitoring.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Subscription SaaS priced by monthly transaction/data volume, with paid tiers, a permanent free tier, and optional usage-based billing beyond included quotas.
Pricing Tiers
30K transactions per month; free monthly tier with no deadline.
300K transactions per month.
800K transactions per month.
1.5M transactions per month, unlimited events, hosts/apps/users, REST API access, live-chat support, and AI Bug Fixer.
Target Markets
- PHP software development teams
- Laravel, Symfony, CodeIgniter, and raw-PHP application teams
- SaaS and technology companies
- Teams operating production web applications
- Companies building AI agents and agentic workflows in PHP
- Finding production bugs before customers report them
- Diagnosing slow PHP requests, database activity, API calls, jobs, and background processes
- Monitoring Laravel, Symfony, CodeIgniter, raw PHP, and Neuron AI applications
- Debugging and observing AI-agent and multi-step agentic workflows
- Giving development teams shared dashboards, alerts, and actionable execution data
- Using coding agents to investigate application failures
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