# About Cleric: Build. Ship. Support.

> Cleric’s mission is to turn reactive ops into proactive engineering.
>
> Markdown version of https://cleric.ai/about for AI agents and LLMs. Site index: https://cleric.ai/llms.txt

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Founded 2023 · San Francisco

## Our Mission

Turn reactive ops into proactive engineering. Cleric maps your stack, traces alerts to root cause, and feeds every verified outcome back into the next investigation.

## Our Origin

Before Cleric, we built observability systems and spent years debugging production outages.

LLMs gave us the reasoning layer. But summarization isn’t investigation. Cleric reasons across alerts, logs, and dependencies to surface root cause instead of symptoms. Context from every resolution accumulates across the team instead of staying with the engineer who fixed it.

## Our Team

We’re AI and platform engineering veterans. We’ve all spent time on-call wishing the tooling was better.

- **Shahram Anver**, Co-Founder, CEO: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shahramanver/
- **Dan Siwiec**, CTO: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dsiwiec/
- **Erin Ahmed**, Head of Product: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erincahmed/
- **Peter Richens**, Principal Engineer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-richens/
- **Michael Saah**, Staff Software Engineer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-saah/
- **Luis Smith**, AI Engineer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luis-a-smith/

## At a Glance

- **Founded:** 2023
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, CA
- **Funding:** $9.8M raised
- **Investors:** Zetta Venture Partners (Apoorva Pandhi, Managing Director); Vertex Ventures US (Jonathan Heiliger, General Partner)
- **Recognition:** [Gartner® Cool Vendor™ 2025, AI for SRE and Observability](https://cleric.ai/blog/cleric-named-a-cool-vendor-in-the-2025-gartner-cool-vendors.md)

Gartner, “Cool Vendors in AI for SRE and Observability,” Hassan Ennaciri, Uzair Amin, Chris Saunderson, Daniel Betts, 2 October 2025. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications. GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark, and COOL VENDOR is a trademark and service mark, of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and are used herein with permission. All rights reserved.

Join the team: https://cleric.ai/careers