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Quality control for your software factory

Summer 2023Founded 20235 peopleSan Francisco, CA, USA

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AI coding tools made your team ship faster. But standards are slipping through review. Continue runs source-controlled AI checks on every pull request, enforcing your team's conventions, security patterns, and architecture boundaries as native GitHub status checks. Each check is a markdown file in your repo, running as a full AI agent. It only enforces what you asked for and never misses it. Consistency over breadth. Standards as checks, enforced by AI, decided by humans. With hundreds of thousands of users, Continue is loved by developers worldwide at organizations ranging from small startups to Fortune 500 companies. Continue has raised $5.1M from Heavybit, Y Combinator, and angel investors. The company was founded in 2023 and is based in San Francisco. We believe the time is now to create a future where developers are amplified, not automated.

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SaaSUsage-based · Starter: $3 per million tokens; Team: $20 per seat per month (includes $10 in credits per seat); Company: custom pricing with BYOK, SSO, and SLAs

Continue provides source-controlled AI checks that run on every pull request to enforce engineering standards. It combines human-defined rules with AI enforcement to ensure consistent quality without opinionated reviews.

The product lets you write checks as markdown in your repository. Continue runs these checks as native GitHub status checks on each PR, offering suggested fixes when code misses the mark. It supports creating and managing AI-driven checks that scale with your software factory and integrates with Slack, Sentry, and Snyk. Pricing is token-based and per-seat, with enterprise options for security and compliance.

Who it’s for: Teams and companies building software at scale that want automated, AI-assisted quality controls enforced on pull requests, including security and compliance considerations.

Features

source-controlled AI checks on PRs
markdown-written checks in repo
native GitHub status checks with suggested fixes
integration with Slack, Sentry, and Snyk
scales with the software factory
customizable engineering standards
enterprise security options

Pricing pages with Starter/Team/Company tiers; mentions of enterprise features and BYOK; ongoing product positioning for automated checks and integrations

Founders · 2

Ty DunnFounder

Current: Quality Control @ Continue & Previous: Founding --> Group PM @ Rasa, Adaptive computation @ UMich

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Nate SestiFounder

MIT

Coding @ Continue. Previously math and physics @ MIT ('23), first hire @ Mayan (W21), building mission control software @ NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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Launch

Launched on Y Combinator · Jul 2023

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An open-source autopilot for VS Code and JetBrains

Continue releases an open-source autopilot for software development that integrates with VS Code and JetBrains, allowing developers to manage context, customize commands, and keep development data private. It enables prompting and tooling without copy/pasting from ChatGPT while offering a data engine for paid organizational use.

From the original launch (Jul 2023) — may be outdated.