Upshift

FoundersAdam Suskin CEO and founder of Upshift. For 5+ years, I've worked as an eng lead at Palantir and Candid Health. I love helping other devs. At Palantir, I was the tech lead of the US Army deployment that converted an $823 million contract vehicle.The problemThere's a lot of noise with AI headlines every week, but we help engineering leaders cut through the snake oil and false promises to real use cases that can help their teams today. Engineering teams still use their human engineering hours to take care of codebase chores, tech debt, and compliance tasks. This is valuable time and effort that most leaders would rather point to features and bug-fixing.The solutionUpshift is a coding workspace designed to help engineering teams adopt AI asynchronously. It can spawn and coordinate coding agents to work on outcomes and projects without needing a human to start a prompt. Our customers use us to handle dependency upgrades and security patches, take care of codebase chores, and manage tech debt campaigns.The visionYou should consider joining us at Upshift if you are motivated by defining what software engineering will look like in a few years with AI. Imagine a world where any builder can leave the chore-work to Upshift so they can focus on what makes their projects unique and exciting.The cultureUpshift is a remote, highly autonomous environment. Each person is here with an understanding that they are the author of their chapter at Upshift. We anchor ourselves in how we are actually helping our customers. We consider it a privilege to have companies to support and do our best to be a reliable partner who shows up even when the problems feel impossible. Upshift is a place for people who care about their work and care about other things too. We're not looking for one-dimensional personalities or work drones. Show up, put in the effort when you're working, and then feel comfortable turning off.TechWe work on all kinds of interesting technical problems, things like: low-trust worker sandboxes reliable agentic AI workflows for programming tasks data and information visualization of complex technical efforts Our software stack is TypeScript, React, Effect, Postgres, and Fly.io Our AI stack is Upshift (yes we use ourselves!), AI SDK, Claude Code, Cursor