About Shipkin

The AI product company built by engineers.

Shipkin is a team of 28 building five AI agents that research, spec, build, test and release software inside the repo and tracker you already use.

Night shift

Product teams at growing companies build with Shipkin

Tidewell
Corvo Health
Marrow & Co
Orchard Freight
Kelpwise
Pellam
Fennic Labs
Tidewell
Corvo Health
Marrow & Co
Orchard Freight
Kelpwise
Pellam
Fennic Labs

Our values

The values behind our agents.

Four principles we wrote down on day one. They still decide what ships and what doesn’t.

Builders first

Every agent we ship has to save an engineer an hour. If it doesn’t make the work faster, it doesn’t make the release.

Own the change

Small teams, full ownership. Whoever picks up a problem carries it from the first ticket to production.

Reviewed every year, never rewritten

Four principles, written in 2023

One repo

Five agents share one repo and one brief. We remove handoffs instead of building bridges between tools.

Ship the draft

A rough draft today beats a perfect one next quarter. We release early, watch real usage and refine in public.

Our story

How Shipkin became an AI product company.

The launches, decisions and milestones that shaped Shipkin, from a weekend experiment to the product team it is today.

Sep 2026
Agent workflows
Teams chain Scout, Sketch, Forge, Probe and Relay into one saved workflow.
May 2026
Two million merged
Shipkin passes two million merged pull requests across 18,000 product teams.
Jan 2026
Probe and Relay
Test and release agents arrive, so changes ship behind flags with evals attached.
Oct 2025
Repo Sync
Shipkin plugs into the repo, tracker and chat teams already use, with nothing to migrate.
Apr 2025
Shipkin Studio
The services group opens, building product agents and MVPs with client teams.
Mar 2024
Forge goes public
The build agent opens to everyone and merges its first public pull requests.
Jun 2023
Shipkin becomes a company
A weekend experiment grows into a seven-person company in Amsterdam.
Aug 2022
The weekend experiment
Amara automates the ticket triage she keeps redoing, inside her own backlog.

Our differences

Why engineers choose our AI agents for product work.

Half of our team has run production systems at scale. We design around real deadlines and on-call rotations, not feature checklists.

How we work

How we build each agent, from rough idea to shipped release.

Every feature starts in someone’s backlog. We sit in on real sprints, note where engineers slow down, and write the problem down before the solution.
We write the spec like a short design doc, then share rough prototypes with a handful of teams long before anything is polished.
One small team owns it end to end. Research, design and engineering share one channel and ship to beta teams every Friday.
We release early, watch how it is used and keep tuning. Changelogs, eval reports and community feedback close the loop.

The team

Priya Raman

Lead Engineer

Priya builds Repo Sync and the runtime every agent runs on. She came from payments infrastructure, and still measures everything in milliseconds.

03 / 07

Bengaluru, India

Recognition

Awards and recognition for Shipkin’s AI agents.

2026
Product of the Year, Developer Tools
Recognized by the Builders Guild for putting five AI agents on one shared repo.
2025
Best Team Workflow
Awarded for agents that hand work to each other and keep a whole team inside one project.
2025
Engineers’ Choice
Chosen by a jury of working engineers for Forge, the build agent, and its small pull requests.
2024
Breakout Startup in AI
Named one of the year’s breakout tools after Forge opened to the public.
2023
Design Excellence, Interface
Honored for a beta console that needs no tooltips to get started.

Life at Shipkin

Life at Shipkin is about staying connected.

We’re 28 people in eight countries who care about the work, and know when to step away from the screen. Some of our best ideas arrive away from the keyboard.

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