Kestral

Kestral

We automate your entire product development lifecycle.

San Francisco
3 employees
AI
Seed · $500K

About Kestral

Kestral makes it clear what your customers want most, prioritizes those tasks for highest leverage, and closes the loop with those customers.

We (Brian and Bernard) have been close friends since university, and most recently worked together at Asana, leading AI and Authorization efforts. There we realized AI can completely disrupt the $50B Work Management Market, but it required a fresh start.

What work we even choose to manage in the first place is critical, and the most important insights from customers are silo-ed in sales/CS while R&D gives their best shot at roadmaps meant to deliver impact. Significant requests sit in a backlog, duplicate asks flood the system, months wasted on "strategic investments". We want to bridge this gap.

This message is resonating with heads of sales, heads of product, CEOs, as well as individuals, all trying to make sure the most important things get done, with less wasted effort and more revenue/retention.

Kestral works by automatically take in customer data like sales call transcripts & feature request messages and a team of agents:

  1. analyze them for actionable takeaways, deal blockers, and nice to haves
  2. consolidate them and manage all the asks with citations
  3. prioritize them by impact and frequency to cut through the noise so you can see the biggest opportunities clearly
  4. connect them to your existing strategic roadmap so when the work gets done, we can automatically follow back up with your customers and win them over

This is just step one of our mission to revolutionize how work gets done -- starting with what we choose to work on, and hope you follow us along for the ride!

Company details

Team Size3
LocationSan Francisco
IndustryAI

Funding

Total raised

$500K

Last stage

Seed

Investors

Y Combinator

Founders

BX

Bernard Xie

Current founding CTO at Kestral, the AI native platform for work management. Previously at Asana, 2 time founding engineer (AllStripes: acquired by PicnicHealth (YC19), Terrastruct). On the side I golf, play the drums, and cook.

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Brian Kim

Brian Kim

Studied Computer Engineering at USC; early engineer at GoFundMe; led AI Workflow initiatives at Asana. Co-founded Kestral after recognizing AI's potential to disrupt the work management market.

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What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.