Scaling startup engineering at Exa AI

Exa AI builds a search engine that LLMs can use to look up real-time information.

They are a YC S21 company with a team of 10 and with their recent Series A, they have raised ~$20M to date.

Challenge

Like many high-growth startups, especially ones with technically complex products, Exa has the challenge of scaling their engineering team while still maintaining the velocity and high standard of work that got them to where they are today.

Exa AI was using a combination of manual and automated code review processes. However, they found that the manual process was too slow and the automated process was not sophisticated enough to catch all the issues they needed.

Solution

By implementing Greptile's advanced code review API, Exa AI significantly improved their development workflow, catching potential issues early and speeding up the review process.