Cleric
Founded 2023; autonomous AI SRE that investigates Kubernetes + cloud-native alerts end-to-end. $10M seed Apr-2024 (Greylock + Innovation Endeavors). Direct competitor to Resolve.ai in the AI-SRE wave.
Active · Verified 2026-10-28 · fresh as of 2026-10-28 · 19 cited facts, 0 with a third-party source · 1 recorded change · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Tier
- T3
- Created
- 2023 (founded) vendor fix
- Latest release
- not applicable — wrong section fix
- License
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- GitHub
- not applicable — no GitHub repo fix
- Pricing
- Team $700/month (1,400 credits); Pro $1,500/month (3,000 credits); ~$1 to verify a change, $5 to triage an alert; free trial with 1,000 credits vendor fix
- Funding
- $4.3M seed Mar-2024 (led by Zetta Venture Partners) vendor fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-28 fix
- Layer
- agent-infra repo fix
- Licensing
- commercial vendor fix
- Protocols
- mcp-server vendor fix
- Compliance
- soc2-type2 vendor fix
When to use
Optimised for: autonomous AI SRE for Kubernetes / cloud-native
Anti-fit: not applicable — wrong section
Pros & cons
Pros
Founder Willem Pienaar (Feast OSS creator) gives ML/data ops credibility; Greylock-backed; Kubernetes-focused.
Cons
Early-stage; smaller raise than Resolve.ai; the category is crowded.
Claims & capabilities
$10M seed Apr-2024 (Greylock + Innovation Endeavors); autonomous AI SRE; Kubernetes-native focus
Technical surface
- API surface
- not applicable — wrong section
- Backend storage
- not applicable — wrong section
- Deployment
- not applicable — wrong section
- Embedding model
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Multi-tenancy
- not applicable — wrong section
- MCP
- not applicable — wrong section
- A2A
- not applicable — wrong section
- OpenTelemetry
- not applicable — wrong section
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Sources (18 cited facts, 0 third-party)
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- What it is Autonomous AI SRE agent for cloud-native incidents vendor
- What it does & what's distinct Founded 2023; autonomous AI SRE that investigates Kubernetes + cloud-native alerts end-t… vendor
- Claims / benefits $10M seed Apr-2024 (Greylock + Innovation Endeavors); autonomous AI SRE; Kubernetes-nati… vendor
- Created 2023 (founded) vendor
- Funding $4.3M seed Mar-2024 (led by Zetta Venture Partners) vendor
- Pricing Team $700/month (1,400 credits); Pro $1,500/month (3,000 credits); ~$1 to verify a chang… vendor
- HQ San Francisco vendor
- Founders / pedigree Willem Pienaar (CEO; ex-Tecton + Feast OSS creator) vendor
- Optimised for autonomous AI SRE for Kubernetes / cloud-native vendor
- Pros Founder Willem Pienaar (Feast OSS creator) gives ML/data ops credibility; Greylock-backe… vendor
- Cons Early-stage; smaller raise than Resolve.ai; the category is crowded. vendor
- Project & sources cleric.io/ vendor
- architecture-deployment-locus cloud vendor
- licensing-bucket commercial vendor
- positioning-platform-vs-product product vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup agent-infra repo
- compliance-certifications soc2-type2 vendor
- protocol-support mcp-server vendor
What changed
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- 2026-10-28
- Homepage “https://cleric.io/” → “https://cleric.ai/”
- Pricing “not applicable — wrong section” → “Team $700/month (1,400 credits); Pro $1,500/month (3,000 credits); ~$1 to verify a change, $5 to triage an alert; free trial with 1,000 credits” source
- Funding / ownership “$10M seed Apr-2024 (Greylock + Innovation Endeavors)” → “$4.3M seed Mar-2024 (led by Zetta Venture Partners)” source