ByteAsk
ByteAsk is an AI coding agent for C and C++ that verifies its own work by compiling, running, and testing every code change before a developer reviews it. The agent runs in the terminal, integrates with existing gdb sessions, and supports toolchains like LLVM, GCC, Clang, CMake, and Valgrind. It also offers on-prem and air-gapped deployments for enterprise environments.
- Developer Tools
- AI Agents
- Artificial Intelligence
- Software Only
Funding
Raised to date
$500KRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
Founders
Founder details are not available yet.
Product
Problem
C and C++ bugs in performance-critical and safety-sensitive systems can be extremely expensive to find and fix. Teams working on trading engines, embedded firmware, automotive software, and operating systems often struggle with AI tools that generate plausible code but fail to compile, crash at runtime, or introduce subtle memory errors that are only discovered late in the development cycle.
Solution
ByteAsk provides an AI coding agent that writes C and C++ code and then verifies it by building the change, running sanitizers and test suites, and attaching to an existing gdb session the developer already has open. This means the developer reviews a diff that already compiles and passes tests, rather than reviewing unverified code. The agent runs in the terminal on Linux, macOS, and Windows and integrates with the toolchains developers already use, including LLVM, GCC, Clang, CMake, Valgrind, and sanitizers like ASan, UBSan, and TSan. For enterprise environments, ByteAsk supports on-prem and air-gapped deployments with company-managed API keys, SSO, SCIM, role-based access control, and audit logging.
Target Audience
Primary customers are engineering teams in trading and high-frequency trading, embedded and firmware development, automotive software, silicon and FPGA work, and systems/OS development where C or C++ bugs are particularly expensive.
Features
- Generates code changes that are automatically compiled, run, and tested before the developer reviews the diff
- Integrates with existing gdb sessions, allowing the agent to join debugging workflows rather than replacing them
- Works with common C/C++ toolchains including LLVM, GCC, Clang, CMake, Valgrind, and Compiler Explorer
- Supports sanitizers (ASan, UBSan, TSan) and perf for detecting memory errors and performance issues
- Offers on-prem and air-gapped deployments for networks with no route to the internet
- Provides SSO (SAML), SCIM provisioning, role-based access control, and audit logs with per-user and per-organization spend limits
- Delivers zero data retention for prompts and code, with no training on user code