Built by engineers who got tired of the same review comments
Commitloom started in Seattle in 2025 after Priya Nair spent seven years reviewing code at payment infrastructure companies and writing the same comments on every PR. Not because engineers don't know what to look for — but because scanning 600 lines of diff at 5pm on a Friday after six hours of context-switching is a pattern-recognition problem, not a skills problem.
Priya Nair
CEO & Co-Founder
Priya spent seven years as a staff and then principal engineer at Vantaflow, a Seattle-based payments infrastructure company, before starting Commitloom. In that time she reviewed thousands of pull requests and left the same comments so often she considered writing a macro: "Add a null check before dereferencing this." "This doesn't handle the empty-slice case." "The test wasn't updated when you changed the signature."
The issue wasn't that engineers on her team couldn't spot these bugs — they could. It was that code review happens at the end of the day, on diffs that are 400 lines long, after the reviewer has already spent their best cognitive hours on other problems. That's a pattern-recognition job, not a judgment job. AI handles pattern recognition. Human reviewers should be spending their attention on the architecture decisions, the tradeoffs, and the things that require knowing the codebase history.
She left Vantaflow in early 2025 to build the review tool she'd wanted for the previous seven years. Commitloom is bootstrapped, built in Seattle, and ships every week. Reach her directly at [email protected].
The people building Commitloom
Builds the webhook ingestion layer and diff processing pipeline. Previously backend at a developer tooling startup in Portland.
Owns the review model pipeline — prompt design, context window strategy, and false-positive tuning. Research background in program analysis.
Designs and builds the dashboard, diff annotation UI, and Slack notification templates. Previously at a fintech SaaS in Seattle.
Give every PR a first reviewer who never gets tired
The best engineering teams aren't the ones with the fastest reviewers — they're the ones where reviewers spend their attention on the decisions that actually require judgment: architecture, tradeoffs, naming that will matter two years from now. Not null checks. Not missing edge cases in test coverage. Not stale inline comments pointing at deleted code.
Commitloom is not a replacement for code review. It is the first pass — the diff reader that runs before any human opens the tab, notes what looks wrong, writes the summary, and hands the reviewer a brief instead of a wall of unchanged context. Human reviewers should start from a higher baseline.
How we build
Engineering-first
Every product decision starts with how engineers actually experience code review — not how a product roadmap template says it should work. We use Commitloom on every PR in this codebase, including the commits that ship new Commitloom features.
Honest AI
AI reviewers have false positive rates. We don't pretend otherwise. We tell you what Commitloom catches, where it's unreliable, and what types of bugs it doesn't attempt to flag. Fewer, sharper comments beat comprehensive noise every time.
Zero friction setup
If the setup requires more than two minutes, we haven't finished the product. Engineers have no patience for developer tools with 10-step onboarding guides. Neither do we.