About Mendral
The AI DevOps team for
engineering organizations.
Mendral is a set of specialist AI agents that catch supply chain attacks, fix flaky tests, and speed up builds — autonomously, around the clock, with no humans in the loop.
Why we built Mendral
We have spent more than a decade in the trenches of modern software delivery — first at Docker, where we helped define what container-based development looks like, then at Dagger, where we tried to make CI programmable instead of declarative. Along the way we watched the same pattern repeat at every company we worked with.
Engineering teams pour an enormous amount of human attention into the mechanics of shipping: chasing flaky tests, triaging CI failures, fighting build slowdowns, reading the same CVE advisories every week, and reviewing the same kinds of mistakes in pull requests. None of that work is what anyone signed up for. It is also exactly the kind of work that modern AI agents are good at, when they are given enough context.
Mendral is our attempt to take that work off engineers' plates. Not as a copilot that suggests fixes for a human to accept, but as a team of specialists that does the job end to end — diagnoses, fixes, opens the pull request, and learns from what happened. Shipping should not be gated on CI. With a real AI DevOps team in place, it isn't.
Founders
From the team behind Docker and Dagger.
Sam was VP of Engineering at Docker and a co-founder of Dagger, where he spent more than a decade shaping how modern teams build, test, and ship software. He started Mendral to put autonomous agents on the parts of CI/CD that humans dread.
What Mendral does
Mendral installs as a GitHub App in under five minutes, optionally connects to Slack, and starts reading CI logs immediately. Three always-on specialist agents work alongside any custom agents you build:
- Security Agent
Defends your supply chain. Pins safe versions before compromised packages hit you, flags suspicious maintainer activity, and triages CVEs by real-world exploitability — not theoretical CVSS.
- Reliability Agent
Diagnoses CI failures, fixes flaky tests, ships PRs. Identifies infrastructure issues and reliability patterns over time.
- Performance Agent
Speeds up builds. Finds caching wins, parallelization opportunities, and slow tests to cut.
- Custom Agents
Build your own agentic flows on top of Mendral. Anything you can describe.
See the architecture overview for how the agents fit into your delivery stack.
Frequently asked
What is Mendral?
Mendral is your AI DevOps team — a set of specialist AI agents that fix CI failures, speed up builds, triage vulnerabilities, and review pull requests autonomously. It installs as a GitHub App and starts reading your CI logs immediately.
Is Mendral the same as Mistral AI?
No. Mendral (with an “e”) is a Y Combinator-backed AI DevOps company. Mistral AI is a separate French foundation-model lab. The two companies are unrelated, build different things, and are not affiliated.
Who founded Mendral?
Sam Alba and Andrea Luzzardi, the team behind Docker and Dagger. Sam was VP of Engineering at Docker and a co-founder of Dagger; Andrea was an early Docker engineer and a Dagger co-founder.
How does Mendral work?
Three always-on specialist agents — Security, Reliability, and Performance — run across your delivery stack. The Security Agent defends your supply chain (pins safe versions before compromised packages hit you, flags suspicious maintainer activity, triages CVEs by real-world exploitability). The Reliability Agent diagnoses CI failures and fixes flaky tests. The Performance Agent speeds up builds. Customers can also build custom agents for anything else. Mendral plugs into CI/CD, infrastructure, and notifications, then learns your stack from every run, every deploy, and every commit.
Which CI providers are supported?
GitHub Actions today. Buildkite, CircleCI, and GitLab CI support is coming next.
How fast does Mendral start working?
Install the GitHub App, optionally connect Slack, and Mendral starts reading your CI logs immediately. First insights within minutes, first auto-fix typically within hours.
How much does Mendral cost?
Mendral uses a flat monthly rate based on team size. No per-seat surprises, no usage caps, no per-incident charges. See the pricing page or email hello@mendral.com for a quote.
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