Cleric is an AI site-reliability-engineering (SRE) startup founded in 2023 by CEO Shahram Anver and CTO Willem Pienaar, who drew on experience running infrastructure at Gojek before building an agent meant to operate across complex, cloud-native systems. The San Francisco company has raised $9.8 million across two seed rounds, most recently $5.5 million led by Vertex Ventures US in December 2025, and was named a Gartner Cool Vendor for AI in SRE and Observability in 2025.
When a production alert fires, Cleric's agent investigates logs, metrics, and traces on its own to identify a root cause in minutes rather than the hours a human on-call engineer might spend correlating the same signals by hand. It operates read-only by design rather than taking automated remediation actions, and every investigation it completes becomes reusable operational memory that speeds up diagnosis of the next similar incident.
Cleric is built for engineering and platform teams running production infrastructure at a scale where on-call fatigue and alert volume are real problems, not individual developers. Pricing isn't published and requires a sales evaluation, a friction point the company's own comparison guides acknowledge makes it harder for smaller engineering teams to assess against competitors.
