Hacker News · Oct 2024
Launch discussion describing Patched’s post-code automation platform, workflow builder, self-hosting/CLI/CI-CD support, and open-source components such as patchwork and optillm.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
Patched is a YC S24 startup building open-source, auditable AI workflows (“Patchflows”) that automate post-code and regulated operational tasks such as code reviews, documentation, fixes, vulnerability remediation, and other development chores.
Primary product
Patchwork / Patchflows: an open-source, self-hosted AI workflow automation platform for code review, documentation, fixes, and security patching
Founded
2024
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Sub-industry
Open-source AI workflow automation for software development and regulated operations
Offices
San Francisco, California, United States
1111b South Governors Avenue, Dover, DE 19904, US
Business model
open-source
self-hosted software
managed service
usage-based pricing
Funding
Stage
Pre-Seed
Total raised
$2M
Latest round
Pre-Seed · Sep 2024
Latest amount
$2M
Sep 2024 · Y Combinator
People & investors
Work & culture
Public messaging emphasizes open-source collaboration, transparency, auditability, compliance-by-design, and high-autonomy engineering work. The company appears community-oriented and developer-centric.
Product & market
Pricing
Pricing scales with operational volume; public marketplace listing also shows a free tier and paid tiers for patchflow usage.
Differentiators
- —Autonomous background workflows instead of assistant-style copilot behavior
- —Open-source and self-hosted execution options
- —Code-native workflows represented as editable Python
- —Fully auditable systems on dedicated infrastructure
- —Customizable patchflows and prompt templates
- —Uses preferred LLMs and supports OpenAI-compatible endpoints
- —Targets regulated operations with SLA ownership
- —Usage-based pricing tied to workflow volume
Technology
Python
Patched CLI
Patchwork
Patchflows
GitHub Actions
GitHub integration
GitLab integration
CI/CD pipelines
OpenAI-compatible LLM endpoints
local/self-hosted execution
cloud/managed service
Hugging Face
Discord community
Customers
enterprise development teams
regulated operations teams
fraud and risk teams
banking customer operations teams
reconciliation teams
security and operations teams
Competitors
GitHub Copilot Code Review
Semgrep
Snyk Code
SonarQube / SonarCloud
CodeRabbit
Qodo
Sourcegraph
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
$250K-$500K
Estimated monthly visits
3.1K
Traffic estimate as of Jul 2026
Latest news
Patched blog · May 2024
Announces the open-sourcing of Patchwork, a Python-based framework for building patchflows that automate security fixes, dependency upgrades, documentation, and PR reviews.
Patched blog · Feb 2024
Discusses AI-generated code security risks, references sleeper-agent backdoors, and positions Patched as a static-analysis-plus-LLM remediation tool with AutoFix and patched-coder-34b.
Patched blog · Jan 2024
Summarizes the product launched in fall 2023 and highlights integrations, PR generation, GitHub Marketplace availability, and roadmap items such as enterprise billing and SARIF support.
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