Pre-Seed · SAFE
$750K @ $12M cap
Delaware C-Corp · June 2026
Open MCP plugin · Commercial Platform

Context Mode

the substrate AI coding agents run on.

An open-source MCP plugin 290,000+ developers run locally. A Platform with paid Solutions for engineering organizations. Same engine, two surfaces.

§ 02 · The wall

Every AI coding agent hits the same wall.

Developer side

Context windows fill up in 20 minutes.

Every turn, the LLM re-sends the entire conversation. Every file read, every command output, every grep result piles up. By Friday afternoon the agent is spending more tokens carrying context than reasoning over it.

The industry response: buy more context window. Rate-limiting the wrong axis.
Organization side

Leaders have no audit trail.

A CTO sees a $50K AI tool bill but no return. An EM sees engineers stuck without knowing. A CISO sees prompts touching secret-shaped paths without consent. Their AI tools ship faster than their evidence trail.

No incumbent observability tool sits at this layer. The category is open.
§ 03 · The engine

Sandbox the tool. Index the output. Stop sending raw bytes.

The context-mode plugin intercepts every tool call (bash, file reads, grep, fetch, eval) and writes the output to a local SQLite FTS5 store. The agent gets a few hundred bytes plus a search handle. When it needs the raw output, it queries the store.

// Without context-mode $ grep -r "useAuth" src/ → 4,200 lines streamed into the LLM context window // With context-mode $ grep -r "useAuth" src/ sandboxed. 4,200 results indexed. handle grep-2026-06-12-7a8f → 327 bytes sent to the model instead of 142,000 bytes. // Agent queries the index on demand claude → ctx_search("useAuth") limit=10 → 10 most-relevant matches
98%
context window saved
15
AI coding platforms
ELv2
open source
0 KB
data leaves your machine
§ 04 · The lens

Context Mode Insight.

Live · self-serve · $20 / seat / month

The same plugin optionally forwards structural events to the org (tool names, error counts, file paths). Never source code. Never prompts. Never model responses. Insight runs 222 detection patterns server-side and serves answers via MCP, role-narrowed to six personas.

CTO
What is our AI investment returning?
EM
Who is stuck on my teams this week?
IC
How am I doing vs my team?
CISO
Any high-severity AI risks?
FinOps
Where is our AI spend going?
DevOps
Is commit quality healthy?
Honest framing. Insight launched in Q2 2026. Zero paid customers, zero active org users today. The product ships and is live. The seed converts the 290K-developer OSS base into the first paying organizations. That conversion is the bet.
§ 05 · OSS traction

The plugin grew to 290,000+ developers with zero paid acquisition.

290,000+
Developers
17,200+
GitHub stars
#1
on Hacker News
15
AI platforms
Organic, developer-to-developer. No outbound. No ads. The HN run, GitHub virality, and 15 tool communities did the work.
§ 06 · Business model + roadmap

One engine. A bundle of Solutions.

01 · ENGINE · FREE

context-mode

Open-source MCP plugin. Sandboxes every tool call, indexes output to local SQLite FTS5.
  • 15 AI platforms (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Codex, Gemini CLI, Aider, more)
  • ~98% context-window reduction per session
  • 0 KB leaves the developer machine
  • ELv2 license. Hyperscaler-resistant.
290,000+ devsfree, forever
02 · PLATFORM · PAID UMBRELLA

Context Mode Platform

The commercial layer. Solutions live inside the umbrella, priced per-seat, billed separately.
  • Insight — engineering signal for AI-assisted teamsLIVE · $20/seat
  • Memory — long-term memory layer for AI agents2026 Q4
  • Audit — SOC 2 evidence trail for AI-assisted work2026
  • Cost — per-team AI spend attribution2026
Cloudflare edge · privacy-first · per-seat billingpaid
03 · SOLUTION · LIVE

Context Mode Insight

The first paid Solution. Engineering signal for AI-assisted teams, role-narrowed.
  • 222 production detection patterns running server-side
  • 13 MCP tools serving chat answers · 14 AI adapters
  • 7 role views: CTO · EM · IC · CISO · FinOps · DevOps · SecOps
  • 7-day free trial · self-serve checkout
live since Q2 2026$20 / seat / month

The bundle thesis. One free engine drives adoption. The paid Platform monetizes the same installed base across multiple Solutions over time. Each Solution sells independently; together they compound into one ARR line per organization.

§ 07 · Market + moat

A $12.8B tool layer with no observability incumbent.

$1.2B
Insight TAM. AI coding assistants are a $12.8B market in 2026 (projected $30B by 2032). At ~10% observability take-rate, that is $1.2B. Cursor alone reached $3B ARR with 1M+ paid seats; GitHub Copilot has 4.7M paid subscribers. Insight at $20/seat is the lens for that installed base.
Moat 01

Distribution already done

290K developers running the plugin. The Insight upsell is one opt-in switch away. The bridge is built; the seed funds someone to walk people across it.

Moat 02

222 named decisions

The pattern catalog is not 222 lines of code. It is 222 product decisions about what to surface to which role. A clone needs to rebuild every one.

Moat 03

Privacy posture

No source code, no prompts, no responses ever leave the developer machine. The only enterprise-viable posture. Incumbents trained on send-everything-to-cloud cannot retrofit it.

Moat 04

ELv2 license

Source-available, hyperscaler-resistant. Cannot be commercialized by AWS / Azure / GCP. Same shield Elastic, MongoDB, Redis used to defend their commercial layer.

§ 08 · Team + ask

Solo founder shipped this. Now two founding hires.

Team today

B. Mert Köseoğlu

Solo founder. Built the engine, the platform, and Insight end to end. Full-time. Based in Türkiye. New Delaware C-Corp on close.

  • 290,000+ developer plugin, ELv2 OSS
  • Cloudflare Workers + D1 platform, $0 fixed infra
  • 222-pattern Insight catalog · 13 MCP tools · 7 personas
  • 15 AI coding platforms supported on day one

The ask

$750K SAFE
on $12M post-money cap

18 months minimum runway, 24 months with buffer. Two immediate founding hires: a commercial lead to convert the OSS base and a deployed engineer to walk Insight into the first design-partner orgs.

  • ~$120K founder compensation
  • ~$240K Sales+CS+Marketing+DevRel hire (18 mo)
  • ~$90K Founding Forward Deployed Engineer (18 mo · equity-weighted)
  • ~$50K growth · ad credits · sponsorships · content
  • ~$250K seed-bridge buffer · runway extension to 24 mo
What we will not take Strategic money from any AI coding agent vendor. Board seats at pre-seed. Flips from ELv2 to permissive.
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