Baz

Baz, based in Boston, is an agentic coding platform whose AI agents operate directly on a team's codebase to review, govern, and secure the code that developers and AI copilots produce. Founded by a team of former Palo Alto Networks engineers who helped build its cloud application security business, and led by chief executive Guy Eisenkot, who earlier co founded Bridgecrew before its acquisition by Palo Alto Networks, it raised a seed round that it extended to seventeen million dollars in June 2026, co led by Battery Ventures and Boldstart Ventures. Its premise is that in a world where AI generates code faster than any team can review it, reviewing after the fact is no longer a viable primary defense.

Baz began with an AI Code Review agent that runs on every pull request, deeply understanding the codebase, detecting breaking changes across endpoints and behavior, and enforcing standards across product, design, architecture, security, and reliability, and it ranks first on the precision weighted Code Review Bench. Its Spec Review agent goes further, pulling requirements from Figma over MCP and Jira over REST and using secure browser automation to validate that the delivered experience matches intent, reducing bugs and time to merge. Its newest release, Baz Planner, moves review upstream to a pre code gateway where four agents, a spec reviewer, an advanced security agent, a site reliability engineer that correlates changes against production telemetry, and a fixer that applies and validates safe changes in an isolated runtime, run in a loop to catch and rewrite risky plans before code is written. Throughout, Baz keeps a developer in the loop for every significant decision, accumulates learnings from a team automatically and updates its own instructions, and is built to be observable, explainable, predictable, and reproducible.

Baz reflects its founders' security background, framing itself as AI code governance that gives engineering and security leaders control over a codebase increasingly authored by systems they cannot fully audit, and acting as a super harness that coordinates coding agents rather than replacing them. It runs in the cloud and on Bedrock foundation models rather than offering customer model choice, and it does not yet document a self hosted option. For a team shipping with AI copilots that wants deep, learning code review, spec validation, and pre code security governance integrated into GitHub and the IDE, Baz is a strong and unusually capable fit; a team wanting an on premise deployment, or simply a lightweight linting bot, will find it a governance layer rather than a checkbox.