Sourcebot relicensed its core from MIT to the Functional Source License (Fair Source), restricting competitive use while planning a delayed conversion to Apache 2.0 after two years.
SourceHelping humans and AI agents understand massive codebases
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Sourcebot is a San Francisco-based, YC Fall 2025 company building a self-hosted code understanding platform for massive codebases. It indexes repositories in customer infrastructure, supports natural-language Q&A with inline citations, and sells a free/basic tier plus Pro and Enterprise plans. No separate public CEO was clearly identified beyond the two co-founders.
Primary product
A self-hosted code search and AI code understanding platform with Ask Sourcebot, code navigation, and multi-repo indexing
Founded
2024
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10
Work style
Remote
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Developer tools / code understanding / code search
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Offices
Business model
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$500K
Latest round
Seed · Sep 2025
Latest amount
$500K
Sep 2025 · Pioneer Fund
Open-source, build-in-public, engineering-led, and quality-focused; the founders publicly described a 'zero bug policy' and frequent product/changelog shipping.
Work style
Remote
Compensation
Public hiring signal: a Founding Engineer role was posted at $140K-$200K salary with 0.50%-2.00% equity.
Pricing
Free Basic tier, Pro at $20 per user/month, and custom Enterprise pricing
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
Estimated at about $451K annually (rough range $288K-$770K; third-party estimate)
Estimated monthly visits
17.3K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Sourcebot relicensed its core from MIT to the Functional Source License (Fair Source), restricting competitive use while planning a delayed conversion to Apache 2.0 after two years.
SourceSourcebot moved Ask Sourcebot and MCP into the paid plan in v5, which materially changed monetization and feature access.
SourceLinkedIn · Jun 2026
Sourcebot's company post highlights the v5 release and says Ask Sourcebot can pull context from external tools such as Jira, Linear, and Notion.
Sourcebot changelog · Jun 2026
Official v5 release notes describe Ask connectors for Jira/Slack/Linear, a persistent sidebar, and expanded Git blame/history support. Ask Sourcebot and MCP moved into the paid plan.
Startuply.vc · May 2026
External profile covering Sourcebot's funding, YC F25 status, product positioning, and technical direction, including trigram indexing and multi-tenancy notes.
Sourcebot blog · Feb 2026
Engineering/culture post about Sourcebot's 'zero bug policy' and how the team uses Linear to keep bug debt under control.
Sourcebot blog · Jul 2025
Sourcebot relicensed its core from MIT to the Functional Source License to restrict competitive use while preserving a delayed open-source publication path.