Meet Optibot, the AI agent that thinks, reviews, and maintains your codebase. It lives in GitHub, reviews PRs with judgment, fixes CI issues and keeps your code clean long after it's merged. Built by Optimal AI.
Long-time lurkers, 3rd time makers :) @syedahmedz and I are YC alums and we're so excited to introduce you today to Optibot, your repo's code review agent. We're the former creators of Tara AI and have spent over a decade working with thousands of engineering teams.
With vibe coding, we realized that code maintenance and security would only get harder for engineering teams. After trying every code review agent and tool out there, we were surprised by how much noise they added and how it felt like they didn't have code context or reasoning.
And so, Optimal AI was born, with a mission to help maintain codebases securely. We released our first agent, Optibot, in private beta to 2,900 engineers at fortune 500 companies and startups. Today, we're excited to introduce you to Optibot's public beta after (much!) testing. We spent 8 months nailing reasoning and giving it the ability to think before responding, since the hardest problem with having truly capable agents, is context and judgment. In the video, we share how we battle tested Copilot reviews vs Optibot, and {spoiler alert}how it found 4 issues and a breaking error vs Copilot finding 2 issues in a PR.
Here's how it works:
-> Install on Github
And that's it. Once added to your repos, Optibot spends time understanding your codebase. You can speak to it directly in Github comments and ask it questions. It will summarize your PRs and review them. It's already SOC 2 verified and in use at public companies today (ty to our customers!).
PH community, we're going to be live all hours of today on rounds of coffee! Pls ask us any questions your heart fancies, and we'll respond. Oh and we're also announcing our $2.25M pre-seed raise today to help serve our customers and continue to build more agents with context.
May the bots live on to serve us (and not the other way round). - Iba and Syed
Optibot is a game-changer for dev teams looking to speed up code reviews and improve quality. It integrates seamlessly with GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket, offering smart, real-time feedback without storing your data. I love how it catches security issues and suggests improvements while keeping everything secure and fast. It feels like having a sharp, reliable teammate reviewing your code 24/7.
Absolutely love Optibot! So many other Code Review tools fall short, Optibot's the future that we need!
Congrats on the launch! it's been really exciting to work with you during the development of such a compelling tool!
I have been needing this for a long time! It saves so much time to my team and our tech lead loves it! Thanks team for building this and working with us closely!
Congrats on the Optibot launch! It's great to see the focus on improving the quality and speed of PRs.
It can be really helpful. It takes so much time to review PR's. Is it possible to set up new own rules? For example, we have the code base from previous team and their concepts and patterns were not very good. How it possible to explain to the bot?
Awesome launch! So proud of the team - Optibot looks like a game-changer for code reviews. Can’t wait to see what’s next. Onwards and upwards! 🚀
Optibot is thoughtfully-built agentive code assistant that is more persnickety than Copilot or Cursor, and because of that, if you write code, you should use it. 🤖
Awesome product. In the new world of vibe and agentic coding, this is more important than ever.
Sold! Where do I put my credit card? 🤑
This is a cool idea - but I'm a little concerned about the ToS/Privacy policy. It says that this grants Optibot an unrestricted license to my source code/"submission"? Can you confirm or deny that? What is the storage or usage of the codebase used in question?
@ibamasood and team are among the most deeply thoughtful builders in the space! Incredibly excited about this launch. Congratulations, team Optimal AI! 🔥
