After successfully selling the live video startup Periscope to Twitter, former Twitter product head Kayvon Beykpour is back with a new AI startup. On Wednesday, Beykpour announced the launch of Macroscope—a powerful AI system designed for developers and product leaders that automatically summarizes codebase updates, captures errors, and provides deep code analysis.
Star Startup Team Reunites
Macroscope was founded in July 2023 by current CEO Beykpour, along with co-founders Joe Bernstein and Rob Bishop, childhood friends. All three have extensive experience in successful startups: Bernstein worked at Periscope and previously at Terriblyclever (a company acquired by Blackboard in 2009), while Bishop sold his computer vision and machine learning company Magic Pony Technology to Twitter in 2016.
Addressing Engineering Team Pain Points
"I've experienced this pain... in every company I've worked at, whether it was one we started or a large public company like Twitter," Beykpour said in an interview with TechCrunch.
He pointed out that engineers currently use various tools like JIRA, Linear, and spreadsheets to track their work, but spend too much time in meetings rather than coding. "Trying to understand what everyone is doing, especially in an organization like Twitter with thousands of engineers, is actually a big part of my job—and something I disliked the most as Twitter's product leader."
Core Technology and Features
Macroscope is positioned as a "AI comprehension engine," using advanced code traversal technology. The system uses an abstract syntax tree (AST)—a structured representation of programming code—to collect important background information about how a codebase works, then combines it with a large language model.
Customers first install the GitHub app, and can then choose to integrate other apps such as Slack, Linear, and JIRA. The system automatically completes tasks by analyzing code and recording changes.
For engineers, Macroscope can detect errors in pull requests, summarize PRs, understand codebase changes, and ask questions based on code research. Product leaders can get real-time summaries of product updates, productivity insights, and natural language question-answering features to help prioritize team engineering resource allocation.
Competitive Advantages
Although Macroscope faces competition from tools like CodeRabbit, Cursor Bugbot, Graphite Diamond, and Greptile in the code review space, the company claims a clear advantage. Internal benchmark testing of over 100 real bugs showed that its product caught 5% more bugs than the second-ranked tool, while generating 75% fewer comments.
"No matter your technical level, you can ask questions in natural language," Beykpour emphasized. "If you're a CEO and want to know 'what did we accomplish this week?', your options are either to ask Macroscope or distract other teammates—this option is much less costly."
Business Model and Customers
Macroscope uses a subscription-based pricing model, charging $30 per active developer per month, starting with five seats, and offering enterprise pricing. It currently requires GitHub Cloud.
Before its official launch, many startups and large enterprises have already begun using the product, including XMTP, Things, United Masters, Bilt, Class.com, Seed.com, ParkHub, and A24Labs.
Capital Support and Future Prospects
This San Francisco-based startup currently has 20 team members and closed a $30 million Series A round led by Michael Mignano from Lightspeed in July this year. Other investors include Adverb, Thrive Capital, and Google Ventures. So far, Macroscope has raised a total of $40 million in funding.
With the successful backgrounds of its founding team, clear market pain points, and strong capital support, Macroscope is expected to play a significant role in the AI-driven development tools sector.
Address: https://macroscope.com/
