Distill
Rethinking code review for the agentic era
The founders
JD
The company
Distill is building a code review tool designed for the agentic era, where AI agents write more of the code but humans still decide what actually ships. The company says its focus is keeping human expertise, curiosity, and shared understanding at the centre of the review process.
As agents make producing code cheaper and faster, the bottleneck shifts to judgement — knowing what's worth merging. Distill is betting that review, not generation, becomes the hard part of software development.
Founded in 2026 by Jamie Davenport, Distill starts from a contrarian premise: code is getting easier to produce, but humans still belong in the loop. Details on the founding team's pedigree aren't public yet.
It's early days and led by founder Jamie Davenport, so the proof will be in the product. What's clear is a sharp point of view on where human value sits as agents take on more of the grunt work.
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