# Mesmer

> Mesmer is an AI 'chief of staff' for engineering organizations that watches the work itself - code, specs, designs and meetings - to give founders and CTOs a live picture of what is shipping, what is stalling and where the friction is, without pulling teams into more status meetings. Founded in 2025 by three repeat founders out of Origin Financial and Glio, the Y Combinator-backed company pitches itself as 'Cursor for CTOs' and says it has reviewed 70M+ lines of code for customers with a combined valuation north of $3B.

- **Founded:** 2025
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Joao de Paula (Co-Founder & CEO), Lucas Bruno Silva (Co-Founder & CTO), Sergio Oliveira Bergmann (Co-Founder & VP Engineering)
- **Team size:** 7-9 people
- **Products:** Mesmer CTO, Friction Mapping, Hands-Free Operations, Performance Benchmarking, Integration Hub
- **Notable:** Reviewed 70M+ lines of code for early customers, 10+ live customers with $3B+ combined valuation, Reached six-figure ARR within a week of launching

## Products & services

- **Mesmer CTO** — An AI chief-of-staff / senior engineering advisor that CTOs can query about project delays, team recommendations, architecture decisions and roadmap changes, and that delivers weekly reports on what shipped, moved or stalled.
- **Friction Mapping** — Org-wide diagnostics that identify where work stalls across the code, CI, review, QA, merge and deploy stages.
- **Hands-Free Operations** — Automated management workflows with per-engineer feedback and team digests, plus auto-merge of simple PRs so reviewers focus on complex work.
- **Performance Benchmarking** — Compares a team's current engineering metrics against optimized, best-in-class targets.
- **Integration Hub** — Connects GitHub, Slack, Jira, Linear, GitLab, Datadog and Bitbucket to read the work where it already happens.

## Achievements

- Reviewed 70M+ lines of code for early customers
- 10+ live customers with $3B+ combined valuation
- Reached six-figure ARR within a week of launching
- SOC 2 Type II certified
- Rohlik Group reported a 156% engineering productivity improvement over five months using Mesmer

## Latest updates

- **2025-05** — Went through Y Combinator's 2025 batch and launched publicly as 'Cursor for CTOs.'
- **2025** — Reported reaching six-figure ARR within a week and reviewing 70M+ lines of code across early customers.

## Links

- Website: https://mesmer.co
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mesmer-labs
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/MesmerLabs

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Last updated: 2026-07-30