Session recording, analytics, guardrails, and prompt governance for agentic coding workflows. Built in Zurich. Already in production.
72% of organizations adopted AI coding tools. Nearly half lack metrics to evaluate their success. Speed at the individual level doesn't translate to organizational velocity. Here's what keeps coming up.
"We're spending $100K–$2M/year on AI tools and can't answer the board: is this investment paying off?" CTOs get asked this question and literally can't answer. A majority of leaders expect velocity gains, yet almost none actually measure impact.
Lines of code, commit counts, PR volume — all become misleading when AI generates code. Teams that ship 21% more tasks also see 91% longer PR review times. Speed at the individual level doesn't translate to organizational velocity.
Leaders can't answer fundamental questions: Which tools deliver measurable value? Where are teams encountering friction? Developers use Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, and Cursor in the same hour. Only 15% naturally adopt without structured enablement.
AI-assisted teams ship 10× more security findings while PR volume actually falls. 40% higher credential exposure in enterprise AI tools. Boards are now saying: "No governance, no deal."
Each new session starts from scratch. The agent doesn't know what you built yesterday, what failed, or what branch you're on. Context-setting wastes tokens and time. Failure patterns aren't carried forward. It's like onboarding a new developer every morning.
Captures every prompt, tool call, file edit, git commit, and conversation transcript. Sessions are classified by mode — orient, plan, build, debug, ship — and exportable as markdown or JSON.
Developer velocity metrics, friction analysis, and API cost tracking. Know your commits per session, time-to-first-commit, tool failure rates, and spend per day.
Nico queries past sessions for recent commits, file history, and branch context — so the agent never starts cold. Context is injected automatically based on configurable strategies.
Secret detection in tool calls, declarative security policy enforcement, and full audit logging. Every violation is recorded and surfaced.
Deterministic rewrite rules that transform prompts before they reach the model. Template system with conditions, audit trails, and full traceability.
Ships as a lightweight plugin with hooks and slash commands. Conversational CLI with session resume, model selection, and built-in commands.
Nico deploys into your cloud infrastructure — your VPC, your tenant. Data never leaves your environment and is never used for model training. Hooks into every AI coding session through a lightweight plugin model.
Get cost-per-session, tokens-per-commit, and velocity metrics that connect AI tool spend to shipped outcomes. Answer the board with data, not anecdotes.
See tool failure rates, edit-test cycles, and session modes across your team. Identify which workflows produce results and which waste tokens.
Full audit trail of every tool call, file edit, and prompt. Secret detection, permission enforcement, and violation logging — all within your environment, all auditable.
Inter-session memory means the agent knows your recent commits, branch context, and past failures. No more re-explaining your codebase every morning.
Every competitor is a SaaS platform that requires sending your data to a third party. Nico is fundamentally different.
Nico deploys into your infrastructure — your VPC, your tenant, your rules. Data never leaves your environment, is never used for model training, and is never shared with third parties. Enterprise-grade isolation by architecture, not by policy.
SaaS dashboards show repo-level stats. Nico records every tool call, every prompt, every file edit within each session. Micro to macro visibility.
Cross-session context means the agent gets smarter over time. Failure patterns, branch history, and temporal context are injected automatically.
Not just monitoring — active control. Prompt rewriting, permission enforcement, and secret detection happen before the model sees your data.
TechFire AI is a Zurich-based startup building the missing control layer for agentic coding. Nico already has customers in production. We're exploring next steps — including partnerships and acqui-hire opportunities with the right team.