# HoundDog.ai launches ProtoMap to map service dependencies for coding agents > Source: > Published: 2026-11-09 13:50:16+00:00 # HoundDog.ai launches ProtoMap to map service dependencies for coding agents **Co-founded by Amjad Afanah and Joohwan Oh, HoundDog.ai is giving engineers and coding agents a free, self-hosted graph of services, APIs and fields.** By [RuntimeWire Staff](https://runtimewire.com/author/runtimewire-staff) · Published · Updated Primary source: [PR Newswire Business Technology](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hounddogai-launches-protomap-to-show-the-blast-radius-of-every-grpc-and-protobuf-change-across-monorepos-and-microservices-302931453.html) ## Why it matters AI coding agents can edit a shared gRPC service faster than they can find every caller in other repositories. ProtoMap tests whether a deterministic, precomputed service graph can cut token spend and prevent breakage by giving humans and agents the same dependency map before code changes. Amjad Afanah has seen the same failure mode from two sides of the developer-tools market. Before co-founding [HoundDog.ai](https://hounddog.ai/?ref=runtimewire), he led DCHQ, a cloud management startup, to an acquisition and later founded APISec.ai, which built an early API security scanner. He then served as VP of Product at data-security firm Cyral and led product management at Cruise for developer productivity tools and the cloud platform under its autonomous vehicles, according to [HoundDog.ai's founder biography](https://hounddog.ai/about-us/?ref=runtimewire).… When you purchase through links in our articles, [we may earn a small commission](https://runtimewire.com/affiliate-monetization-standards). This doesn’t affect our editorial independence.