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Shahram Anver

Shahram Anver

10 posts

You’re renting your institutional knowledge

Shahram Anver
12 mins June 7, 2026

Most AI agents rent knowledge back through forward-deployed engineers. The ones worth buying compound verified memory in systems you own.

You’re renting your institutional knowledge

Stop Reviewing Agent Output. Start Reviewing Agent Decisions.

Shahram Anver
7 mins April 17, 2026

When agents can produce anything, the bottleneck shifts from code to judgment. You manage that by reading the decisions, not the outputs.

Stop Reviewing Agent Output. Start Reviewing Agent Decisions.

Why Your AI SRE Needs Memory

Willem Pienaar Shahram Anver
8 mins March 19, 2026

Investigation logic is becoming a commodity. What won’t commoditize is operational memory: the ability to capture and persist engineering judgment.

Why Your AI SRE Needs Memory

The Self-Improving AI SRE

Shahram Anver
7 mins December 9, 2025

We’ve proven that our self-learning AI SRE approach works. Now we’re ready to scale.

The Self-Improving AI SRE

Agent Engineering Is Not Software Engineering

Shahram Anver
12 mins December 8, 2025

Agent startups hire differently. ML fundamentals and domain intuition matter more than years of software engineering.

Agent Engineering Is Not Software Engineering

Cleric Named a Cool Vendor in the 2025 Gartner® Cool Vendors™ in AI for SRE and Observability

Shahram Anver Willem Pienaar
5 mins November 12, 2025

We’ve been named a Cool Vendor in the 2025 Gartner Cool Vendors in AI for SRE and Observability report. We see this as validation of our approach to building a self-improving AI SRE.

Cleric Named a Cool Vendor in the 2025 Gartner® Cool Vendors™ in AI for SRE and Observability

What’s Good for AI Agents is Good for Engineers

Shahram Anver
9 mins August 14, 2025

Engineers and AI agents work best under the same conditions. They need clean codebases, fast feedback, and clear observability.

What’s Good for AI Agents is Good for Engineers

9 Months In: How BlaBlaCar and Cleric Are Reimagining Incident Response with AI

Shahram Anver
4 mins June 5, 2025

BlaBlaCar runs one of the most advanced reliability stacks in the industry, but even strong systems hit limits as scale grows. By integrating Cleric into their alerting workflow, they’re using AI to reduce manual toil and bring faster, more consistent investigations to every team.

9 Months In: How BlaBlaCar and Cleric Are Reimagining Incident Response with AI

Why Your Engineers Are Drowning in Alerts

Shahram Anver
7 mins May 15, 2025

Modern engineering teams are overwhelmed by on-call duties and alert fatigue, leaving little time for innovation. Cleric acts as an AI SRE teammate that intelligently investigates incidents, helping engineers stay focused by offloading the cognitive burden of production support.

Why Your Engineers Are Drowning in Alerts

Introducing Cleric: The first autonomous AI site reliability engineer

Shahram Anver Willem Pienaar
4 mins March 21, 2024

We’re excited to announce that we’re building an autonomous AI SRE, called Cleric, backed by Zetta Venture Partners in a $4.3M seed round. Cleric is an AI teammate designed to autonomously manage, optimize, and heal software infrastructure.

Introducing Cleric: The first autonomous AI site reliability engineer

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