Compyle
ActiveThe coding agent that actually collaborates with you
This company has previously operated under “SmartAppetite”. A rename frequently marks a pivot in positioning or product — useful raw material for variant ideas.
About
Compyle is a less autonomous coding agent that asks before it acts. We're like Cursor or Claude Code - but you won't need to rewrite your codebase every time you use it for more than a small task. We built Compyle because we were frustrated with the direction other coding agents are headed. They're all racing to be more autonomous, running for hours without human input. This doesn't work for real production code. When agents run autonomously, they make countless small decisions that pile up in your codebase. Engineers lose ownership - they don't know what was implemented, can't effectively debug or maintain it, and struggle to build on top of it. The code becomes a black box, and they're forced to throw it away. Compyle keeps engineers in the driver's seat.
Founders · 2
Jonathan is co-founder and CEO of Compyle. He studied Computer Science and Economics at Johns Hopkins University, where he led multiple AI research projects for the CS department and developed snake robots. He also founded Hopkins Deliveries, a campus food delivery service that built cost-effective tele-operated delivery robots. Before Compyle, Jonathan was founding engineer #4 at Hadrius (YC W23), where he built core AI systems powering compliance at thousands of businesses today.
Mark is the Co-founder and CTO of Compyle. Previously the second engineer at Hadrius, he helped scale the company to its Series A, led engineers, and built much of the core AI product. Before that, at arXiv, he led the move to the cloud and launched its first major UI change in decades.
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