Harness

Harness is a software company focused on helping organizations build, test, secure, deploy, and operate software. Its official website describes its offering as an “Autonomous SDLC Platform,” positioning the product around the work that follows code creation: shipping changes quickly while managing risk, reliability, and governance. The company says its platform uses AI agents across stages of the software delivery lifecycle, including pipeline execution and software delivery. The platform’s described capabilities include software delivery automation, build and deployment workflows, infrastructure deployments, artifact handling, and AI-assisted review and testing. Harness also offers AI SRE capabilities for incident response. Its AI SRE page describes correlating alerts with deployments, feature flags, infrastructure changes, and monitoring signals; generating incident timelines and root-cause hypotheses; coordinating runbooks; and supporting remediation. These are presented as product capabilities by the company, not independently verified performance claims. Harness says it launched in San Francisco in 2017. Its official About page identifies Jyoti Bansal as co-founder and CEO. The same page reports more than 1,200 employees worldwide, more than 1,000 enterprise customers, and $570 million in total funding raised. The careers page describes 23 global offices and a presence in more than 20 countries. The supplied evidence does not identify a parent company, current headquarters, named investors, or stock-market listing. Harness’s stated positioning emphasizes enterprise-scale software delivery, combining speed with safety and governance. Its website presents the platform as a way to manage software and infrastructure delivery with AI-assisted or autonomous agents, while its careers page frames the company’s broader ambition as empowering developers. The company appears active and presents its products and services to enterprise software teams internationally.

Harness describes itself as a company launched in San Francisco in 2017. The official material supplied here identifies Jyoti Bansal as co-founder and CEO, but does not provide a fuller account of the company’s initial product, early financing, or launch chronology. Accordingly, the available evidence supports the founding year, city of launch, and co-founder, but not additional dated details about its early development. The company’s current identity centers on software delivery and the stages of the software development lifecycle after code is written. Harness says AI-generated code still needs to be tested, secured, reviewed, and deployed, and presents its platform as a way to embed AI agents across those activities. Its homepage describes a broader “Autonomous SDLC Platform” and a Software Delivery Agent intended to take changes from commit to production. The site also presents workflow capabilities for builds, deployments, infrastructure, and artifacts. The supplied pages do not establish when each of these products or capabilities was first introduced. Harness’s AI SRE offering extends this software-delivery focus to incident response and reliability work. The product page describes connecting alerts with changes and operational signals, generating incident documentation and root-cause hypotheses, and coordinating automated runbooks and remediation. These descriptions establish how Harness markets the offering, but the supplied evidence does not independently substantiate the performance figures displayed on the page. The official About page reports that Harness has more than 1,200 employees worldwide, more than 1,000 enterprise customers, and $570 million in total funding raised. The careers page describes 23 global offices and operations or employees in more than 20 countries. Those figures are presented on the supplied official pages without a dated reporting period, so they are best treated as the company’s published descriptions rather than as independently verified or precisely time-stamped measurements. The evidence does not identify its investors, legal ownership structure, current headquarters, or a stock listing. Harness currently presents itself as an enterprise software business focused on AI-assisted and increasingly autonomous software delivery. Its stated principles include the view that speed and safety should work together and that a platform should improve through experience with deployments, tests, rollbacks, codebases, and teams. The company remains active according to its current product and careers pages. No dated acquisitions, leadership changes beyond the named CEO, listings, or other corporate turning points are established by the supplied material.

• 2017

  Harness launches in San Francisco

• The company presents its Autonomous SDLC Platform and Software Delivery Agent

• Harness presents AI SRE for incident response

An enterprise-focused AI platform for software delivery, positioning AI agents as a way to accelerate delivery while maintaining reliability, risk controls, and governance.

• Harness Autonomous SDLC Platform

  An AI platform for software delivery across pipeline, testing, security, deployment, and governance activities, as described by Harness.

• Harness Software Delivery Agent

  An agent the company describes as taking changes from commit to production through software delivery workflows.

• Harness AI SRE

  An AI-assisted site reliability engineering offering for incident response, change correlation, root-cause analysis, incident documentation, runbooks, and remediation.

• 2026.10.08

  Reported2026.10.08

  Harness launches Cosmos Software Factory Agent[6]Harness推出Cosmos软件工厂智能体prnewswire.com

  Harness introduced the Harness Cosmos Software Factory Agent, built on the acquired Augment Code Cosmos technology, which automates engineering work from idea to merge-ready code; the product is now available.

• 2026.10.08

  Reported2026.10.08

  Harness acquires select Augment Code assets[6]Harness推出Cosmos软件工厂智能体prnewswire.com

  Harness announced on October 8, 2026 that it has acquired select assets from Augment Code, including the Cosmos and Auggie CLI products, the Code Context Engine, and related technology, with the team behind these products joining Harness.

• 2026.10.08

  Reported2026.10.08

  Harness acquires select assets of Augment Code, including Cosmos[7]Harness 收购 Augment Code 部分资产（含 Cosmos）siliconangle.com

  Harness Inc. announced on October 8, 2026 that it has acquired select assets from Augment Code Computing Inc., including the Cosmos cloud-based AI code development platform, the Auggie command-line interface products, the Code Context Engine and related technologies, with Augment Code's team joining Harness. Cosmos will become Harness Cosmos Software Factory with the role of automating engineering work from idea to code.

• Unconfirmed

  Reported2026.08.20

  Harness launches AI agents to detect and fix software vulnerabilities[8]Harness推出用于检测和修复软件漏洞的AI代理scworld.com

  Harness Inc. launched a set of artificial intelligence agents that automatically detect software vulnerabilities and generate patches, including an AI SAST agent, a Triage Agent, a Remediation Agent and a Zero-Day Agent. The agents are available now to Harness customers.

• 2021.10.26

  Reported2021.10.26

  Datadog launches Datadog Apps[9]Datadog推出Datadog Appsprnewswire.com

  Datadog launched Datadog Apps, a program for technology partners to build applications that integrate with the Datadog platform. Launch partners included Embrace, Fairwinds, Harness, LaunchDarkly, PagerDuty, Rookout, and Shoreline, whose apps were available on the Datadog Marketplace.

• 2020.10.22

  Reported2020.10.22

  Harness announces updates to software delivery products[10]Harness宣布更新软件交付产品prnewswire.com

  Harness announced major updates to its Continuous Delivery, Continuous Verification and Continuous Efficiency products.

• 2020.08.05

  Reported2020.08.05

  Harness acquires Drone.io[11]Harness收购Drone.iosiliconrepublic.com

  Harness acquired Drone.io, a continuous integration startup. Drone's CI technology is to be added to Harness' continuous delivery platform; Drone will remain open source and free for the community, and Drone Enterprise will be sold as Harness CI Essentials Edition.

• 2020.02.27

  Reported2020.02.27

  Orasi and Harness announce go-to-market partnership[12]Orasi与Harness宣布市场合作prweb.com

  Orasi announced a go-to-market partnership with Harness that enables Orasi to sell the Harness platform and provide related strategic planning, implementation and support services.

Read more

1. 1Harness: AI Platform for the Autonomous SDLCharness.io
2. 2Harness — AI for Everything After Codeharness.io
3. 3AI-Powered Site Reliability Engineering (AI SRE) | Harnessharness.io
4. 4Careers at Harness — Join the AI-Native DevOps Teamharness.io
5. 5Harness Inc.wikidata.org
6. 6Harness推出Cosmos软件工厂智能体prnewswire.com
7. 7Harness 收购 Augment Code 部分资产（含 Cosmos）siliconangle.com
8. 8Harness推出用于检测和修复软件漏洞的AI代理scworld.com
9. 9Datadog推出Datadog Appsprnewswire.com
10. 10Harness宣布更新软件交付产品prnewswire.com
11. 11Harness收购Drone.iosiliconrepublic.com
12. 12Orasi与Harness宣布市场合作prweb.com
13. 13Harness Launches AI Agents for Machine-Speed Vulnerability Responseprnewswire.com