Devplan 融资250万美元,旨在接手AI编码遗留下的产品协调工作

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西雅图初创公司Devplan获250万美元种子轮融资 用AI自动消除团队“会议税”
总部位于西雅图的初创公司Devplan于本周四正式走出隐身模式,宣布获得250万美元种子轮融资。该公司旨在利用人工智能自动化处理产品团队每周耗费大量时间的会议和状态报告。
Devplan由两位资深行业人士联合创立,他们曾在Uber、亚马逊、Snap和Meta等公司任职。在秘密测试后,该公司正扩大其软件的可用性,用于协调产品与工程团队之间的工作。
这家公司的创立契机颇为有趣,源于一块青少年足球场。联合创始人安东·萨福诺夫在那里担任他未来商业伙伴克里斯·比伊女儿的教练。两人孩子在同一所学校就读,他们发现彼此在管理工程团队时有着共同的挫败感:大量工作与产品开发本身无关。比伊称之为“隐形税”。
“随着AI从根本上改变软件开发方式,我们看到编码和工程工作大幅加速,”比伊在接受采访时表示,“但其他协调工作,剩下的那部分‘税’——即‘围绕工作的工作’——坦白说,几乎没有改变。”
两人于2025年共同创立Devplan,比伊担任CEO,萨福诺夫担任CTO。
工作原理: Devplan的核心产品Weaver可连接GitHub、Jira、Slack和会议记录工具等常用工具。用户可通过内置聊天功能、Slack机器人或直接链接AI编码工具如Claude Code来查询产品状态、功能或项目负责人等信息。Weaver还能在后台自动运行,为每位成员生成每日摘要,自主跟踪项目,无需任何人提交更新即可标记风险和进度。其核心理念是避免安排会议或创建状态报告。
比伊表示,通过Weaver查询比每次将AI工具指向原始数据更快、更便宜,因为Devplan会提前处理信息并存储在知识图谱中,而非每次请求都扫描代码和文档。内部测试显示,查询速度大约快两倍,令牌成本降低三倍以上。
融资: 该公司的250万美元种子轮由AI2 Incubator领投,Acequia Capital、Mighty Capital、Grand Ventures和eLab Ventures跟投。Devplan目前有6名员工,正在招聘第7名。种子资金将用于招聘工程人才和深化产品集成。
创始人背景: 比伊此前担任Lessen公司CTO,帮助这家物业服务公司从2000万美元的初创企业成长为估值20亿美元的公司,还曾在Zillow、Uber和亚马逊领导产品和工程团队。萨福诺夫在Snap担任了7年首席软件工程师,是基础设施团队的首席工程师,此前在Meta负责Messenger、Facebook和Instagram的实时流量系统,还在LinkedIn构建过系统。
AI2 Incubator董事总经理张一凡表示:“克里斯和安东曾大规模经历过这个问题,他们拥有解决该问题的技术深度。”
竞争格局: Devplan相信,专为产品与工程团队构建的工具将超越通用AI助手。比伊表示,企业AI搜索公司Glean可能是最接近的竞争对手,但Glean更广泛地覆盖公司所有信息,而Devplan更专注于软件开发领域。Devplan还与项目管理工具Linear集成,更像是合作伙伴而非对手。此外,随着AI编码助手能力的提升,竞争也包括那些选择自建而非购买协调工具的公司。
现状与未来: Devplan目前拥有数十家签订年合同的付费企业客户,以及数百名试用用户。定价基于使用量,公司根据团队规模和预期用量获得统一报价。该公司目前专注于企业客户,未来计划向个人开放按需付费模式。
中文翻译:
Devplan是一家来自西雅图的初创公司,致力于通过自动化手段消除占用产品团队一整周时间的会议和状态报告。该公司于周四正式亮相,并已获得250万美元的种子轮融资。
这家公司由两位拥有Uber、亚马逊、Snap和Meta等企业工作经验的行业资深人士联合创立。在经历了一段时间的小范围客户秘密测试后,他们正逐步扩大其用于协调产品与工程团队工作的软件的可及性。
有趣的是,Devplan的起源竟与一场青少年足球赛有关。在那里,联合创始人安东·萨福诺夫曾执教他未来商业伙伴克里斯·比伊的女儿。他们的孩子就读于同一所学校,并因此发现彼此在管理工程团队时有着共同的困扰:太多的工作与产品开发本身毫无关联。
比伊将这种现象称为“隐形税”。
他在一次采访中表示:“随着人工智能从根本上改变软件开发的方式,编码和工程工作的效率得到了极大提升。但坦率地说,其余那些协调工作,也就是那种‘关于工作的工作’的‘税’,并没有太大改变。”
两人于2025年共同创立了Devplan,由比伊担任首席执行官,萨福诺夫担任首席技术官。
工作原理:Devplan的核心产品Weaver能够连接GitHub、Jira、Slack和会议记录工具等常用软件。用户可通过内置聊天功能、Slack机器人,或通过直接链接接入Claude Code等AI编码工具,向Weaver提问,例如询问产品状态、功能特性,或项目各部分的负责人是谁。
Weaver还会在后台运行,为每个人生成每日摘要,并自主跟踪项目进展,无需任何人提交更新,即可标记风险和进度。
其理念是避免安排会议或创建状态报告。
比伊表示,通过Weaver进行查询,速度更快且成本更低,这优于每次都将AI工具指向原始数据。因为Devplan会预先处理信息并将其存储在知识图谱中,而不是每次请求时都扫描代码和文档。他提到,在内部测试中,查询速度大约快两倍,而令牌成本则便宜三倍以上。
资金:该公司250万美元的种子轮融资由AI2孵化器领投,Acequia Capital、Mighty Capital、Grand Ventures和eLab Ventures参投。
Devplan总部位于西雅图70号码头的AI House,目前有六名员工,并正在招聘第七位。比伊表示,这笔种子资金将用于工程人员招聘和更深入的集成。
创始人背景:比伊此前担任Lessen的首席技术官,帮助这家物业服务公司从一家价值2000万美元的初创企业成长为估值20亿美元的公司;更早之前,他还在Zillow、Uber和亚马逊领导过产品和工程团队。
萨福诺夫在Snap担任了七年的首席软件工程师,是公司基础设施团队的主力工程师;此前,他在Meta负责处理Messenger、Facebook和Instagram实时流量的系统,还曾为LinkedIn构建系统。
AI2孵化器董事总经理张一帆在一份声明中表示:“克里斯和安东在大规模场景下亲身经历过这个问题,并且他们拥有解决这一问题的技术深度。”
竞争格局:Devplan的赌注在于,一款专为产品和工程团队打造的工具将优于通用型AI助手。
比伊表示,企业AI搜索公司Glean可能是最接近的竞争对手,但Glean更广泛地作用于公司所有信息,而Devplan则更深入地聚焦于软件开发领域。他表示,Devplan能与项目管理工具Linear集成,因此它更像是合作伙伴而非竞争对手。
此外,鉴于AI编码助手的能力日益增强,竞争也包括那些决定自建而非购买协调工具的公司。
现状:Devplan拥有数十家签订年度合同的付费企业客户,以及数百名试用过的用户。定价基于用量,企业根据团队规模和预期使用量获得统一报价。
下一步计划:该公司目前专注于企业客户,并计划最终面向个人用户推出按需付费的产品。
英文来源:
Devplan, a Seattle startup trying to automate away the meetings and status reports that eat up a product team’s week, is coming out of stealth Thursday with $2.5 million in seed funding.
The company, founded by two industry veterans with experience at companies such as Uber, Amazon, Snap and Meta, is also expanding availability of its software for coordinating work across product and engineering teams, after testing it quietly with a small group of customers.
Devplan traces its roots to a youth soccer pitch, of all places, where co-founder Anton Safonov coached the daughter of his future business partner, Chris Bee. They had kids at the same school, and discovered they shared a frustration from running engineering teams: too much of the work didn’t have anything to do with building the product.
Bee calls it an invisible tax.
“With AI fundamentally changing the way we do software development, we’ve seen this huge acceleration in coding and in engineering work,” he said in an interview. “But the rest of the coordination work, the rest of that tax — that ‘work about work’ — hasn’t changed very much, frankly.”
They co-founded Devplan in 2025, with Bee as CEO and Safonov CTO.
How it works: Devplan’s core product, Weaver, connects to commonly used tools including GitHub, Jira, Slack and meeting note-takers. A user can query Weaver through a built-in chat function, a Slack bot, or through a direct link into AI coding tools like Claude Code, asking about product status, features, or who’s responsible for which aspects of the project, for example.
Weaver also works in the background, generating a daily digest for each person and tracking projects on its own, flagging risks and progress without anyone filing an update.
The idea is to avoid scheduling a meeting or creating a status report.
Bee said queries run faster and cheaper through Weaver than pointing an AI tool at the raw data each time, because Devplan processes the information in advance and stores it in a knowledge graph rather than scanning code and documents on every request. He said queries run roughly twice as fast and more than three times cheaper on token costs in internal testing.
Funding: The company’s $2.5 million seed round was led by AI2 Incubator, with participation from Acequia Capital, Mighty Capital, Grand Ventures and eLab Ventures.
Based at AI House on Seattle’s Pier 70, Devplan employs six people, with a seventh hire in the works. The seed money is going toward engineering hires and deeper integrations, Bee said.
Founder backgrounds: Bee was previously CTO of Lessen, where he helped grow the property-services company from a $20 million startup to a $2 billion valuation, and earlier led product and engineering teams at Zillow, Uber and Amazon.
Safonov spent seven years as a principal software engineer at Snap, where he was a lead engineer on the company’s infrastructure team, and earlier worked on systems at Meta that handled realtime traffic for Messenger, Facebook and Instagram. He also built systems at LinkedIn.
“Chris and Anton have lived this problem at scale, and they have the technical depth to solve it,” said Yifan Zhang, managing director at AI2 Incubator, in a statement.
Competitive landscape: Devplan’s bet is that a tool built specifically for product and engineering teams will outperform the general-purpose AI assistants.
Glean, the enterprise AI search company, may be the closest comparison, Bee said, but it works more broadly across all of a company’s information while Devplan goes deeper on software development specifically. Devplan integrates with Linear, the project-management tool, making it more of a partner than a rival, he said.
Increasingly, given the capabilities of AI coding assistants, the competition also includes companies deciding to build a coordination tool in-house rather than buy one.
Current status: Devplan has dozens of paying business customers on annual contracts, plus hundreds of users who have tried it so far. Pricing is consumption-based, with companies quoted a flat rate based on team size and expected usage.
What’s next: The company is focusing on enterprise customers for now, with plans to eventually open the product to individuals on a pay-as-you-go basis.
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