Seed Round · April 2026

Your engineering backlog,
done by morning.

nightshift.sh is an autonomous AI engineering platform that ships code while your team sleeps — handling tickets, PRs, tests, and deploys with zero supervision.

2.4×Faster release velocity
$0/hrOvernight engineering cost
94%Task completion rate

The Problem

Engineering time is the most expensive bottleneck in software.

Engineering teams spend the majority of their cycles on routine work — not on the high-leverage building that actually moves the needle.

01

Backlogs never shrink

The average eng team adds 3 tickets for every 1 they close. By the time sprints end, the backlog has grown. Teams are always catching up, never shipping ahead.

02

Humans can't work 24 hours

18 hours of every day, nothing gets built. Compute is cheap and always-on; senior engineers are neither. This is the original sin of software development economics.

03

Existing AI tools are co-pilots, not pilots

GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and similar tools require constant supervision. They write lines, not features. You still need a human in the loop for every keystroke.

04

Hiring doesn't scale linearly with output

Adding engineers adds meetings, PRs to review, onboarding load, and communication overhead. Output grows at a fraction of headcount. The math has never worked.


The Solution

Set a queue before bed.
Wake up to merged PRs.

nightshift.sh agents read your Jira, GitHub, and Slack context, execute the work in isolated environments, pass your test suite, and open pull requests — fully autonomously.

nightshift.sh — agent session
$ nightshift queue --tonight
# Scanning open tickets labeled `nightshift-ready`...
→ Found 7 tasks · estimated 4h 20m

# 00:14 — Starting task NS-441
Refactor auth middleware to support OAuth2
✓ Branch created: feat/ns-441-oauth2-middleware
✓ Tests passing (48/48)
✓ PR opened: #1204

# 01:52 — Starting task NS-438
Add rate limiting to /api/v2 endpoints
✓ Branch created: feat/ns-438-rate-limiting
✓ Tests passing (61/61)
✓ PR opened: #1205

# Morning summary ready → Slack #engineering
→ 6/7 tasks complete · 1 flagged for review
🔗

Integrates with your existing stack

Connects to GitHub, GitLab, Jira, Linear, Slack, and your CI/CD pipeline. No workflow changes needed.

🔒

Isolated, auditable execution

Every task runs in an ephemeral sandbox. Full logs, diff views, and decision traces are stored and reviewable.

🧠

Learns your codebase & conventions

Indexes your repo, docs, and PR history to write code that matches your team's style from day one.

🚦

Human-in-the-loop when it matters

Agents flag ambiguity before acting, never merge without approval, and escalate blocked tasks via Slack.

📈

Gets smarter over time

Each PR review and rejection is a training signal. nightshift.sh agents improve with every merge cycle.


Market Opportunity

A trillion-dollar labor market ready for automation.

Global software developer wages exceed $1.4T annually. Even capturing a small slice of routine engineering work represents an enormous market.

$1.4T
TAM
Global software engineering labor spend annually
$87B
SAM
Routine & backlog engineering work automatable today
$4.2B
SOM
Target share via direct and PLG enterprise sales by 2029
🏢

SMB & Mid-Market Teams

5–50 engineer orgs that can't afford to hire faster but need to ship faster. nightshift.sh is a force multiplier without headcount cost.

🏛️

Enterprise Engineering Orgs

Large orgs with legacy codebases and compliance requirements. High ACV, long contracts, and massive backlogs — our sweet spot.

🚀

Venture-Backed Startups

Teams of 2–10 trying to move at the speed of a team of 50. nightshift.sh is the unfair advantage in product velocity.


Product

Built for real codebases. Not demos.

nightshift.sh handles the messy reality of production engineering — multi-file refactors, cross-service dependencies, legacy code, and real test suites.

📋

Ticket-to-PR Automation

Reads Jira/Linear tickets, breaks them into subtasks, implements the code, writes tests, and opens a reviewable PR — end to end.

🔄

Autonomous Refactoring

Identifies and fixes technical debt across large codebases. Runs migrations, updates dependencies, and enforces style guides at scale.

🧪

Test Generation & Coverage

Automatically writes unit, integration, and regression tests for new and existing code. Raises coverage with every overnight run.

🐛

Bug Fix Pipeline

Triages Sentry/Datadog alerts, traces root cause, patches the defect, adds a regression test, and sends a fix PR before standup.

📝

Documentation Agent

Keeps docs and inline comments in sync with code changes. Generates changelogs, API reference, and runbooks automatically.

🔐

Security & Compliance Scans

Runs SAST, dependency audits, and secret scanning nightly. Opens remediation PRs for every finding, tagged by severity.


Traction

Early signal is strong.

We launched a private beta in October 2025 and have been growing organically since. Here's where we stand today.

214
Beta Teams
$38K
MRR
18K+
PRs Opened
94%
Task Completion
💬

"Feels like hiring 3 engineers overnight."

— CTO, Series A fintech startup (12-person eng team, 3 mo. on nightshift.sh)

💬

"We closed our backlog for the first time in two years."

— VP Engineering, B2B SaaS (40-person team, legacy monolith)

💬

"It merged 6 PRs before I had my first coffee."

— Founding Engineer, developer tools startup (4-person team)


Business Model

Usage-based SaaS with enterprise upside.

We charge per task completed — aligning our incentives directly with customer outcomes. Enterprise plans add seat licensing and custom SLAs.

Startup
$299
/ month · up to 150 tasks
  • GitHub & GitLab integration
  • Jira & Linear sync
  • 1 repo
  • Slack notifications
  • Community support
Enterprise
Custom
Annual contract · unlimited tasks
  • Everything in Scale
  • On-prem / VPC deploy
  • SSO & audit logs
  • Custom model fine-tuning
  • Dedicated CSM + SLA

Team

Built by engineers, for engineers.

We've spent our careers inside the problem we're solving — at hyperscalers, fast-growing startups, and AI labs.

👩‍💻
Mara Chen
Co-Founder & CEO
Previously Staff Eng at Stripe, led autonomous systems at DeepMind. MIT CS. Built and shipped 3 internal developer automation tools used by 800+ engineers.
👨‍🔬
Darius Osei
Co-Founder & CTO
Ex-Meta AI Research, co-authored 4 papers on code generation. PhD CMU. Architect of the task execution and sandboxing engine powering every nightshift run.
👩‍💼
Priya Nair
Head of Product
Formerly PM at GitHub (Copilot, Actions) and Linear. 10 years building developer tooling. Obsessive about the zero-to-first-PR experience.

The Ask

Raising $4M to own the night.

We're raising a $4M seed round to grow the team, harden the product for enterprise, and accelerate our go-to-market into high-velocity engineering orgs.

$4M
Seed Round · $14M Pre-Money Valuation
Engineering
45%
Go-to-Market
30%
Infrastructure
15%
Operations
10%
18-Month Milestones
Q3
2026

GA Launch + Enterprise Pilot

Public launch, 3 design partner enterprise contracts, $120K MRR target.

Q4
2026

On-Prem & VPC Offering

Enterprise-grade deployment. First $1M ARR customer signed.

Q1
2027

Series A Ready

$500K MRR, 40+ team members, 3× YoY growth, Series A raise initiated.