# Startup Spotlight: Deeptrace puts an AI first responder on every production alert > Source: > Published: 2026-11-08 17:33:11+00:00 # Startup Spotlight: Deeptrace puts an AI first responder on every production alert **Andy Lee and Sri Somasundaram are building Deeptrace, which described March 1st, 2026 as its official launch. Deeptrace's AI agents investigate alerts in Slack, cite evidence, and draft fixes.** By [RuntimeWire Staff](https://runtimewire.com/author/runtimewire-staff) · Published Primary source: [Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/deeptrace) ## Why it matters On-call investigation burns senior engineer time on context gathering across logs, traces, metrics, deploys, and code. Deeptrace aims to compress that work into a Slack memo with evidence and a draft fix, but Deeptrace must prove accuracy and safe action boundaries while Datadog, PagerDuty, and heavily funded Resolve AI ship rival SRE agents. Andy Lee has worked on systems where a bad signal is not an abstraction. [Deeptrace](https://deeptrace.com/?ref=runtimewire) lists its co-founder as having worked at Tesla on visualization and simulation for Optimus, and at SpaceX on build and flight reliability for Starship, Falcon, and Dragon [in its Y Combinator profile](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/deeptrace?ref=runtimewire). His co-founder, Sri Somasundaram, built and launched Parafin's embedded card and banking product, according to the same profile.… 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.