# Sleuth

> Sleuth is a San Francisco software company founded by former Atlassian engineers who helped build Jira and Bitbucket. It began as a 'mission control' platform for continuous delivery, giving engineering teams automated DORA metrics and deployment tracking, then expanded into governing AI inside organizations. Its current product, Sleuth Skills, lets companies define agent skills, rules, prompts and MCP servers once and distribute them - with approval workflows, audit trails and access controls - across AI clients like Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini and Codex. Sleuth has raised roughly $25M, including a $22M Series A led by Felicis in 2022.

- **Founded:** 2019
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Dylan Etkin (Co-founder & CEO), Don Brown (Co-founder & CTO), Michael Knighten (Co-founder)
- **Team size:** ~23 employees
- **Products:** Sleuth Skills, Sleuth AI Governance, Sleuth DORA Metrics / Deployment Tracking
- **Notable:** Founded by the first architect of Jira and early Atlassian engineers who brought continuous delivery to Atlassian, Raised roughly $25M total, including a $22M Series A led by Felicis (2022), SOC 2 Type II certified

## Products & services

- **Sleuth Skills** — A control plane for AI at organizational scale. Captures, versions and distributes agent skills, MCP servers, prompts and rules across AI clients (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini, Codex, Cline) from a single source of truth, with approval workflows, RBAC, audit trails and runtime visibility.
- **Sleuth AI Governance** — A central registry with review and approval workflows, trust levels and automatic blocking of unknown tools, plus monitoring of what resources each MCP server can access across the organization.
- **Sleuth DORA Metrics / Deployment Tracking** — The original product: automated, centralized visibility into software delivery performance measured via DORA metrics - deploy frequency, change lead time, change failure rate and mean time to recovery - by modeling how engineers ship across pre-production and production.

## Achievements

- Founded by the first architect of Jira and early Atlassian engineers who brought continuous delivery to Atlassian
- Raised roughly $25M total, including a $22M Series A led by Felicis (2022)
- SOC 2 Type II certified
- Recognized in G2 rankings (Winter 2025 badge) and listed on the Atlassian and GitHub marketplaces
- Pivoted early into AI agent governance, identifying the 'npm-shaped hole' in the AI tooling stack

## Latest updates

- **2026-01** — Sleuth positions Skills as a control plane to govern and scale AI across the organization, supporting most major AI harnesses from a single source.
- **2025-01** — Published 'There's an npm-shaped hole in the AI tooling stack,' framing the case for a registry and governance layer for agent skills and MCP servers.
- **2022-05** — Announced $22M Series A led by Felicis to help teams track and improve engineering efficiency using AI-modeled DORA metrics.

## Links

- Website: https://sleuth.io
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sleuth-io
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/sleuth_io
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/sleuthtv
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SleuthHQ/

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Last updated: 2026-07-10