Amika

Avinash Sukhwani looked at the AI coding agent boom and saw something everyone else missed: the agents are the easy part. The hard part is everything around them—giving them a real dev environment to verify their work, enough context to understand the full problem, and guardrails that stop them from shipping garbage. Most teams are stuck choosing between reviewing every single change manually and going slow, or letting agents run wild and shipping slop. So he built Amika—the software factory for AI coding agents.

Here's how it works: you ping Amika from Slack, Linear, GitHub, the CLI, or their API. An agent spawns in a sandboxed micro-VM with root access, indexes your entire codebase, and gets to work. Your whole team watches, redirects, or takes over in a multiplayer chat UI. When the agent is done writing code, it runs your tests, validates against your guardrails, and opens a PR only if everything passes. No more vibe-coding into production. Every run is isolated, so the blast radius stays contained even when things go sideways.

Avinash co-founded Amika with Dylan Mikus and Jakub Cichon (previously co-founder/CTO at Fixpoint). Avinash himself comes from Payflow, ex-Rocket Internet and BCG, with degrees from Cambridge, MIT, and Imperial College London—based in Madrid. They're Y Combinator backed. If you're still reviewing every PR line by line, you're working like it's 2015. Amika just made your agents actually trustworthy.