Infield helps engineering teams keep open-source dependencies current by pairing automated changelog analysis with human developers who handle the upgrade work itself. Founded in 2019 by married co-founders Steve Pike and Allison Pike in New York City, the company went through Y Combinator's Winter 2020 batch after the pair met while running SevenFifty, a B2B beverage-alcohol marketplace where Steve was CTO and Allison was COO.
Infield's system ingests changelogs and release notes with large language models to flag updates likely to introduce breaking changes, cross-referencing a database of how other users' upgrades of the same package played out. Customers choose between a white-glove service where Infield's own developers execute the upgrade, or software-only plans for teams that want to run upgrades themselves with Infield's risk assessment as a guide; supported languages include Ruby, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Python, with Java in development.
Infield sells to engineering teams tired of manually triaging dependency updates, particularly those maintaining older codebases with accumulated technical debt. The company includes a one-month free trial; beyond that, pricing for both the white-glove and software-only tiers is set through a demo call rather than published online, and Infield has raised $3 million in funding led by Foundation Capital with Y Combinator and Firsthand Alliance participating.
