merly.ai announces $6.8M seed round, co-led by Greycroft and IBM Ventures with participation from JAZZ Ventures!
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# Coding Issues?We Understand.
### Introducing Merly Mentor, AI software that understands code and the coders who write it.
Merly Mentor was built by leaders in Machine Programming, specifically to reason on code intentions. Merly Mentor allows you to focus on improving the quality of your repos over their entire lifetime by understanding the intentions behind the code.
### See what a difference that makes:
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## Early Impressions
### "No other tool that we’ve seen can do anything remotely close to this. I do believe that Merly Mentor provides us with a strategic advantage over our competition."
– Shane Zumpf
Senior Vice President (Trihydro Corporation)
### "Merly Mentor is the future of software development. It's a game-changer."
– Taylor Dolezal
Head of Ecosystem, Cloud Native Computing Foundation
### “Wow, amazingly helpful and great to get such a strong endorsement on the tech quality side."
– General Partner
US East Coast VC Firm ($2B+ AUM)
### “We’re definitely using Merly even more than I realized. Had a dev randomly pull it up in the presentation today. They love it!”
– SVP & Chief Architect
Top 200 Environmental Firm
### “Thank you very much for sharing this with us. Do you care if we publish/use this report? Obviously we'll give Merly the credit :)”
– PhD Founder & CEO
AI Startup
### “It's one heck of a moat, because many VCs have admitted (publicly) that they're typically operating with similar playbooks for 30+ years…meaning that they rarely update their approaches. I know I sound like a broken record, but Mentor IS a game changer.”
– Technical Executive, VC Liaison
OSS Cloud Corporation (10M+ Users)
### “Love this approach. Can you provide Mentor to some (all?) of the companies in our portfolio?”
– Co-founder, Managing Director
US West Coast, VC Firm ($1B AUM)
### “I could see later stage funds paying up for this offering, particularly software-focused PE funds getting lots of value out of Merly as diligence input. They already pay consultants like E&Y to go in and review the code…”
– Partner
US East Coast VC Firm
### “Thank you Justin for producing this analysis. We've always been obsessed with producing simple, clean and well organized code. In my eyes that's the key for managing and continuously developing this product, it's nice to see all of that hard work being recognized [by Merly Mentor].”
– Co-founder & CTO
AI Startup
### “Love this. And all in one platform. Basic functionality like observability, team collaboration, automated code rewrite, etc. all available in one system and valuable to full dev stack (eng to CIO).”
International VC Firm ($10B+ AUM)!!1/102/103/104/105/106/107/108/109/1010/10
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## Determine Code Quality
With software that is actually qualified to do so. Merly Mentor’s features are designed to help developers become the best at what they do.
### Here’s what makes Merly so helpful:
# Objective
Trained on over a trillion lines of high-quality code to identify low-quality code objectively.!
# Private
Merly Mentor can run 100% on-device and on-premises. Keep your code safe and behind your firewall where it belongs.!
# Efficient
Merly Mentor can perform inference on ~1 million lines of code in 1 minute on 1 CPU. (No $100k GPUs required.) You’d never see an LLM get anywhere close to this.!
# Deterministic
Run the same code on different devices and get consistent code quality assessments and Mentor Scores.
# Scalable
Analyze your organization's code and all the OSS you use over their entire lifetime on commodity hardware.!!!1/52/53/54/5
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## A Mentor For...
### Developers
Merly Mentor was engineered for engineers. We know you spend a lot of time trying to interpret code often written by someone else. Merly Mentor is here to save you time trying to understand code, so you can spend more time writing code.!
### Managers& Leads
Merly Mentor integrates with your CI/CD process, allowing you to determine whether or not your team’s code meets your standards to be checked in.!
### Executives
Merly Mentor provides snapshots of your repositories' health and potential OSS or external code additions to your tech stack to help you make better decisions.!
### M&A and Investors
Merly Mentor helps you assess if a company’s code meets quality standards, providing crucial insights for your investment decisions.!!!
## Spotlight Features
Mentor continues to grow to meet your needs. We’ve added several languages and features at the request of our users. What else can it do? Check out these additional features:!
### Runs (Almost) Everywhere
* Can run on your local devices, behind your own firewalls.
* Is designed to work on  Windows 10 and Windows 11 systems, macOS Monterey (version 12 and above), and Linux.
### Always Improving
* Continuously learns from software repositories using our proprietary AI system.
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