The team behind livestreaming app Periscope, once sold to Twitter, is back with a fresh venture, and this time it’s powered by AI.
Kayvon Beykpour, former head of product at Twitter, announced the launch of Macroscope, a new AI system designed to help developers and product leaders keep track of codebase updates, spot bugs, and get instant summaries of engineering progress.
Co-founded with Joe Bernstein (also of Periscope and Terriblyclever) and Rob Bishop (of Magic Pony Technology, sold to Twitter in 2016), Macroscope is described as an “AI-powered understanding engine” that saves engineers from endless meetings and status checks.
Here’s how it works: users install Macroscope’s GitHub app, optionally add integrations like Slack or JIRA, and the software does the rest, analyzing code, walking through its structure, and combining that knowledge with large language models. Engineers can then use it to catch bugs, summarize pull requests, or even answer natural language questions like “what did we get done this week?”
The startup claims its tool caught 5% more bugs and left 75% fewer unnecessary comments compared to rival code review products like CodeRabbit, Cursor Bugbot, and Greptile.
Macroscope costs $30 per developer per month, with enterprise options available. Early adopters include XMTP, United Masters, A24 Labs, and more.
The company, based in San Francisco, has already raised $40 million in funding, including a $30 million Series A led by Lightspeed.
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Looks like the Periscope crew is once again zooming into the future, this time through AI-powered code clarity.
