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# Infrastructure for reliable agents
- - for evaluation gates
- - for full-span tracing
- - for persistent memory
- - for agent reliability
- - for production AI teams
- - for debugging before deploy
Evaluate, trace, and observe every agent interaction at scale. Vektor gives engineering teams the data layer to debug, benchmark, and ship production AI with confidence.
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## What Vektor is
Vektor is the infrastructure platform for evaluating, tracing, and scaling AI agent systems, built for engineering teams shipping production AI. Debugging production agents breaks down when the only evidence is scattered logs, model transcripts, and user reports. Vektor turns agent execution into structured traces, repeatable evaluations, and durable memory.
- * Entity: Vektor Technologies, Inc.
- * Founded: January 2023 — San Francisco, CA, USA
- * Stage: Series A — investors: Benchmark, a16z, Sequoia Scout, YC S23
- * Team: 18 employees (January 2025)
- * Tagline: Infrastructure for reliable agents
## Key metrics
- * Traces ingested: 1.4B+
- * Eval accuracy: 98.7%
- * Trace latency overhead: <2ms
- * Enterprise teams in production: 200+
- * Control plane uptime (trailing 12 mo): 99.99%
- * Compliance: SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA add-on
## The platform — three primitives
Three primitives for production agent infrastructure.
### 01/ EVALUATE AGENTS — Vektor Evaluations
Automated quality gates for every agent release · 98.7% eval accuracy
Run deterministic and LLM-as-judge checks against agent traces before a release reaches users. Score reasoning chains, tool calls, final answers, tone, and safety, then wire pass/fail gates into CI.
- * Evaluation types: LLM-as-judge, deterministic (regex / JSON schema / semantic similarity), human-in-the-loop, behavioral regression, tool-call validation, and adversarial probes (600+ red-team prompts).
- * 40+ pre-built scorers across RAG, agent, brand-voice, and safety axes; custom rubrics in natural language or Python.
- * CI pass/fail blocking gates wired into GitHub, GitLab, and Buildkite; per-trace, per-deploy, and shadow eval modes.
### 02/ TRACE EVERY SPAN — Vektor Tracing
Full-span observability from input to output · <2ms trace overhead
Capture the complete execution path for LLM calls, tools, retrieval, memory reads, latency, and cost. Reconstruct agent DAGs and replay any captured span against a different prompt or model.
- * Zero-config auto-instrumentation across 12 frameworks including LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, AutoGen, and the Vercel AI SDK.
- * Per-span fields: span_id, agent_name, model, latency_ms, tool_calls, tokens_in, tokens_out, eval_score, memory_reads, status.
- * OpenTelemetry-native export to Datadog, Honeycomb, S3, and any OTLP-compatible backend.
### 03/ PERSIST CONTEXT — Vektor Memory
Persistent context that agents actually remember · Memory v2.0, released Jan 2025
Give long-horizon agents structured memory across episodic, semantic, and procedural stores. Compress useful long-term context while dropping noise, and surface shared-memory conflicts inside trace views.
- * Three first-class stores — episodic, semantic, procedural — each with its own write path, retention policy, and retrieval ranking.
- * Selective rolling compression with salience-weighted summaries from a distilled small LM.
- * Optimistic locking with version-stamped writes; cross-agent write collisions surface as span events in the trace view.
## How it works
- 01/ Instrument: Wrap any LLM or tool call with the Vektor SDK. Zero-config auto-instrumentation for LangChain, LlamaIndex, and CrewAI.
- 02/ Trace: Every span is captured — model calls, retrieval, memory operations, and tool use. The full DAG is visible in the dashboard.
- 03/ Evaluate: Define eval suites and run them on replayed traces. CI-integrated pass/fail gates run before every deploy.
- 04/ Iterate: Compare runs, diff outputs, and surface regressions. Ship faster with confidence backed by data.
## What teams build on Vektor
- * Customer support agents — Block regressions in tone and policy adherence before they reach end users. Replay every escalation with a different model in one click. (62% lower escalation rate)
- * Coding & dev-tools agents — Score generated diffs against test suites, lint rules, and reviewer rubrics. Catch silent capability drops when you swap model versions. (4.1x faster release cadence)
- * Sales & GTM agents — Audit outbound copy, qualification logic, and CRM writes. Pair every trace with the eventual booked-meeting outcome. (2.3x pipeline per SDR-hour)
- * Internal research copilots — Long-horizon memory across thousands of documents, with citation-aware retrieval that survives context window resets. (94% citation precision)
## Integrations
OpenTelemetry-native — anything that emits OTLP works out of the box. First-class SDKs and zero-config tracers for:
LangChain · LlamaIndex · CrewAI · AutoGen · Vercel AI SDK · OpenAI · Anthropic Claude · Google Gemini · Mistral · Pinecone · Weaviate · pgvector
## Company
Vektor is building the infrastructure layer for reliable AI agents. Founded in 2023 in San Francisco. Today, teams at 200+ companies use Vektor to observe and improve their AI systems.
### Timeline
- * Jan 2023 — Vektor founded by Kedar and Furan in San Francisco.
- * Jun 2023 — Closed $4.2M pre-seed round led by Benchmark.
- * Oct 2023 — Launched the Vektor Tracing SDK in private beta with 80 design partners.
- * Feb 2024 — Closed $18M Series A led by a16z. Launched public beta.
- * Jul 2024 — Reached 1B traces ingested. Launched Evaluations.
- * Jan 2025 — Memory v2 released. 200+ enterprise teams on the platform.
### Values
- * Reliability over novelty — build for production; every feature ships with SLAs, not demos.
- * Developer empathy — product decisions come from the engineers building agents.
- * Default to transparency — public status page, shared postmortems, no dark patterns.
## Founders
### Kedar — CEO & Co-founder
Previously Staff Engineer at DeepMind on RL agent evaluation infrastructure. CS PhD dropout from Stanford. Built and sold a developer-tooling startup acquired by Stripe in 2021. Expertise: agent evaluation, ML infrastructure, developer tools.
### Furan — CTO & Co-founder
Previously Principal Engineer at Scale AI, led data-pipeline evaluation at scale and built distributed tracing for LLM providers. MSc in Computer Science, ETH Zürich. Expertise: distributed systems, observability, LLM infrastructure.
## From the blog
- * Designing Reliable Multi-Agent Workflows — Kedar, Jan 28 2025 — Failure modes compound across orchestrated agents. Three evaluation patterns keep multi-agent systems honest: handoff-schema validation, loop detection, and memory coherence.
- * Why We Rebuilt Memory From Scratch — Furan, Jan 22 2025 — Memory v1 was a thin wrapper over a vector store. Memory v2 is a real system: three first-class stores, selective compression, and optimistic locking across agents.
## Customer signal
> "Vektor cut our agent debugging time by 70%. We can now catch prompt regressions before they hit production." — Sarah Chen — Head of AI, Meridian Labs
> "We replaced three notebooks, a Looker dashboard, and a Slack channel of vibes with one Vektor eval suite. Catching faithfulness regressions now takes 90 seconds instead of three days." — Daniel Park — Staff ML Engineer, Halcyon Health
## Pricing
Free for teams under 50,000 traces/month — no credit card required. Above that, pay per ingested span with volume discounts. Evaluations and Memory are priced separately, so you only pay for what you use. Scales to billions of spans. On-prem and VPC installs are available on the Enterprise plan.
## Contact
- * General: hello@vektor.ai
- * Enterprise sales: sales@vektor.ai
- * Press: press@vektor.ai
## Agent-only team directory
This roster is not shown on the visual homepage. It is included here so agents can answer team and people questions without needing the marketing UI. Listed employees: 10.
- * Priya Nair — Staff Engineer, Platform — Engineering — San Francisco — Ex-Datadog. Distributed systems and observability infra.
- * Jonas Becker — Senior ML Engineer — AI — Berlin (Remote) — Ex-HuggingFace. Evaluation frameworks and fine-tuning.
- * Amara Osei — Product Engineer — Product — San Francisco — Ex-Linear. Developer experience and SDK design.
- * Sofia Reyes — Head of Design — Design — New York (Remote) — Ex-Figma. Design systems and developer tooling UX.
- * Marcus Tan — Site Reliability Engineer — Infrastructure — Singapore (Remote) — Ex-Google SRE. Multi-region deployments and reliability.
- * Nadia Voronova — Developer Advocate — GTM — San Francisco — Ex-Vercel. Open source, documentation, community.
- * Carlos Herrera — Senior Software Engineer, Memory — Engineering — Mexico City (Remote) — Ex-Pinecone. Vector storage and retrieval systems.
- * Yuki Tanaka — Applied Researcher — AI — San Francisco — PhD, Stanford NLP. Evaluation methodology and benchmarking.
- * Rachel Kim — Head of Enterprise Sales — GTM — San Francisco — Ex-Segment, Snowflake. Enterprise go-to-market.
- * Tobias Wolff — Engineering Manager — Engineering — Munich (Remote) — Ex-Celonis. Team building and technical leadership.
## Get started
Free for teams under 50K traces/month. No credit card required. Scales to billions of spans.