// about

An observability company
for the agent era.

Your Business was started in 2023 by ex-Datadog and ex-Honeycomb engineers who watched LLM apps reach production with logging tools that had been designed for HTTP calls. We're building the equivalent of an APM, for the LLM call graph.

How we got here

In late 2022, after the public release of GPT-3.5, half a dozen engineers we knew started shipping LLM features into real production systems — Cursor, Notion, Replicate, a stealth analytics startup that's since become a Series B. Within six months, every one of them was running into the same problem: their existing observability stack was the wrong shape.

Datadog could trace the HTTP request that called the LLM. Sentry could catch the exception when the JSON parser blew up. Their internal eval framework caught regressions in CI, sometimes. None of them could answer: what did the agent actually do, why did it cost $7, and is the answer right?

The LLM call graph deserves the same treatment as the HTTP one. We're a year into building it.

So in spring 2023, three of us — Marc Achterberg, Yvonne Chen, and Aiden Park — left Datadog and Honeycomb to start Your Business. We spent the first six months in a basement office in San Francisco's Mission, talking to fifty teams about what they actually needed. The first version of the SDK shipped in October 2023. We hit 100 paying customers in March 2024 and 4,000 in March 2026.

The team today

Your Business is 38 people across two offices — San Francisco and Berlin — and a roster of remote engineers who keep ingest healthy at 14 billion spans a month. Engineering is two-thirds of the company. The rest is design, product, customer success, and a small but mighty go-to-market team led by people we wanted to work with for years.

We've raised $42M total across two rounds led by Index Ventures, with participation from Jeff Dean, Dustin Moskovitz, and a handful of senior engineers we admire. We expect this to be the last round of capital we need.

What we believe

The LLM call graph is the new HTTP request. Observability for it should be a category, not a feature inside another tool. The pricing should match the cost shape (ingest), not the headcount shape (seats). The dashboards should be useful in the first hour, not the second week. And the bar for what "production-grade" means in this space should be set by people who shipped the previous generation of observability tooling — because we know exactly what's hard.

// how we work

Six principles, written down because we mean them

Every team has a values list. Most don't survive the first hard quarter. These are the ones we've kept.

// 01

Ship the SDK, not the slide deck

If a customer can't try the product in five minutes from the docs page, the product isn't done. We optimize for time-to-first-trace, not time-to-demo.

// 02

OpenTelemetry, on principle

We're a complement to your existing observability stack, not a replacement. Anything that emits OTel should be able to read our spans, and vice versa, forever.

// 03

Per-ingest, not per-seat

Pricing follows cost. We charge for the thing that costs us money — span ingest — and not for the number of humans who look at the dashboard. Always.

// 04

Long-running release notes

Every change ships with a write-up that includes the engineer's name, the lines of code, and the reason. No "various improvements." Embarrassing entries stay up.

// 05

Data lives where customers want it

Self-hosted on Enterprise, OTLP-exportable on every plan, full warehouse export hourly. Your traces are not our moat — the platform around them is.

// 06

Hire boring fundamentals

Kafka, Postgres, Rust. We're an observability company. We sleep through deploys. We do not invent new infrastructure where existing infrastructure already works.

// the team

The eight founding engineers

A subset — there are 38 of us total. Below: the founders, plus a few of the engineers and designers who've shaped Your Business the most.

MarcMarc Achterberg
// co-founder · CEO

Engineering lead at Datadog 2017–2023. Built the APM tracing pipeline. Lives in SF, runs ultras on weekends.

YvonneYvonne Chen
// co-founder · CTO

Distributed-systems lead at Honeycomb. Designed our ingest cluster. Splits time between SF and Berlin.

AidenAiden Park
// co-founder · head of SDK

Sentry SDK maintainer for four years. Owns the auto-instrumentation for every supported provider.

PriyaPriya Iyer
// staff · evals

Ex-Anthropic eval research. Designed our LLM-as-judge default panels. Wrote the dataset feature solo over a winter.

TomásTomás Reinholt
// principal · platform

Ran storage at Honeycomb. Keeps the ingest cluster honest at 14B spans / month. Berlin office.

AishaAisha Rahman
// design lead

Designed the dashboard from a sketchbook to its current GA. Previously at Linear and Figma.

DeveshDevesh Patel
// senior · replay

Built the replay engine. Ex-Vercel runtime. Has spent more time in the tool sandbox than is reasonable.

YusufYusuf Demir
// CS lead

Runs customer success and onboarding. Ex-Datadog field engineer. Personally onboarded the first 200 customers.

// backed by

Index VenturesConvictionFelicisGreylock+ angels
// careers · 14 open

We're hiring across engineering and CS.

SF, Berlin, or remote (US/EU). We pay above-market on a transparent ladder, and we ship a four-day-week experiment every quarter.

Senior Engineer · IngestPlatformSF or Berlin · onsite-flexibleApply → Staff Engineer · ReplayReplay & datasetsRemote · US/EUApply → Senior Engineer · SDKs (Python)SDKRemote · US/EUApply → Senior Engineer · SDKs (Go)SDKRemote · US/EUApply → Product DesignerDesignSF preferredApply → Engineering Manager · EvalsEvalsSF or BerlinApply → Customer Success EngineerCSRemote · US/EUApply → Solutions Architect · EnterpriseCSSF or NYCApply → Technical WriterDocsRemote · US/EUApply → Developer AdvocateDXSF preferredApply →

What you get

Above-market base + equityTransparent ladder. We publish ranges in the JD before you apply.
$5,000 home-office stipendOne-time on hire. Refreshed at $1,500/yr after.
Unlimited PTO, 4-week minimumThe minimum is enforced. Most folks take 5–6.
Health, dental, vision100% employer-paid for you, 75% for dependents.
401(k) with 4% matchVesting from day one, no cliff.
Two on-sites a yearOnce in SF, once in a different city. The team picks.
$2,500 learning budgetBooks, conferences, courses. We're an unfussy shop about it.
Four-day-week pilotQuarterly opt-in. We run the experiment and publish results.

If any of this resonates — say hi.

Whether you're considering a role, asking about Enterprise, or just curious how the platform was built — we read every email at hello@yourbusiness.com.

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