Stackgen 2025 Year-End Letter: The Year We Started Building the Future of Infrastructure

When I look back at 2025, I see the year as the most transformative year yet - driven by the promise of AI —not just for StackGen, but for how the industry thinks about running and managing the infrastructure at scale.

We entered the year as a platform company solving deployment friction. We're ending it as the architects of an Autonomous Infrastructure Platform that reimagines how software gets managed, deployed, and operated.

The Challenge That Defined Us

The impedance mismatch between AI-driven Development Velocity and Platform Engineering has never been wider.

Organizations are racing to adopt AI-driven development workflows, yet their infrastructure remains stubbornly manual, fragile, and reactive. Teams spin up agents to write code, but those same teams still wrestle with YAML files, debug cryptic pipeline failures at 2 AM, and treat deployment like a high-stakes gamble rather than a routine operation.

The cognitive dissonance was deafening. How could we automate intelligence in software creation while the infrastructure beneath it remained fundamentally dumb?

The Vision To Autonomous Infrastructure

We saw enterprises investing millions in AI coding assistants while their deployment processes still required human intervention at every step. We watched platform teams drown in tickets, becoming bottlenecks rather than enablers. We observed the frustration of developers who could generate production-ready code in minutes, only to wait hours or days for that code to reach production.

This wasn't a technical problem—it was a paradigm problem. The inherited infrastructure was built on based on small, specialized operations teams manually managing predictable workloads. Today's mandate requires something fundamentally different: DevEx 2.0. A unified Platform Engineering approach that delivers infrastructure as an automated, self-service product, shifting governance from manual tickets to immutable code standards.

That mandate drove everything we built this year—culminating on July 29, 2025, when we launched the Autonomous Infrastructure Platform(AIP).

Recognition followed—StackGen was named in 4 Gartner Hype Cycles, signaling that analysts saw us as a key player in multiple emerging categories.

We showcased this vision at KubeCon in November and AWS re:Invent in December, demonstrating how AI agents can build and manage infrastructure autonomously.

OpsVerse: Accelerating Our Mission Through Strategic Acquisition

In a year of bold moves, acquiring OpsVerse in August, was perhaps the most strategic.

OpsVerse brought deep expertise in observability, operational intelligence, and enterprise-grade reliability—capabilities that are critical when infrastructure starts making autonomous decisions. You can't automate what you can't observe. You can't optimize what you can't measure.

This acquisition didn't just add features. It added the foundational pillars required for infrastructure to operate with true intelligence: understanding system behavior, detecting anomalies before they cascade, and learning from operational patterns over time.

The OpsVerse team has integrated seamlessly into StackGen, and their influence is already visible across our product roadmap.

Industry Recognition & Thought Leadership

In February, the industry took notice—StackGen was named one of 43 startups to bet your career on, validation that top talent saw us as a company worth joining. That same month, we launched our automated Cloud-to-Cloud Migration capability, making it seamless for enterprises to move workloads between cloud providers without manual intervention.

In March, we published the industry's first IaC Maturity Report, establishing thought leadership in infrastructure-as-code practices. We also celebrated 2x year-over-year growth in team size, bringing in the talent needed to execute on our ambitious vision.

Building the Foundation for autonomous infrastructure

Our product velocity this year reflected the urgency of the mission.

We launched Aiden, our AI-native infrastructure assistant that doesn't just answer questions—it understands context, reasons across your entire stack, and takes action. Aiden represents our bet that the future of infrastructure management isn't dashboards and alerts; it's conversation and intent. Ask Aiden to optimize your deployment pipeline, and it doesn't just suggest changes—it implements them, tests them, and validates the improvement.

We released StackGen MCP (Model Context Protocol integration), enabling Aiden to work seamlessly within AI-powered development workflows. This means developers can ask their AI coding assistants about infrastructure, and get answers grounded in their actual StackGen configuration and deployment history.

We shipped Aiden for DevOps, extending our autonomous capabilities into the tools teams already use for observability. Now teams can ask natural language questions about their metrics, logs, and traces, and Aiden translates those questions into actionable insights and automated remediation.

And we introduced competitive pricing for both the StackGen Platform and Aiden, making autonomous infrastructure accessible to teams at every stage. We believe that transformation shouldn't be gated by budget—every team deserves infrastructure that thinks for itself. Our new pricing model scales with value delivered, not arbitrary metrics like pipeline minutes or user seats.

We achieved SOC 2 Type II compliance and ISO 27001—not because it was a checkbox, but because trust is the foundation of autonomy. When infrastructure makes decisions on its own, security can't be an afterthought. This certification validates that our systems, processes, and controls meet the highest standards for security, availability, and confidentiality.

Each of these releases moved us closer to our ultimate vision: infrastructure that doesn't just execute commands, but understands intent and optimizes for outcomes.

Partnerships That Accelerated the Vision

You can't build the future alone. This year's partnerships proved that.

In January, we launched our partner program to grow the StackGen ecosystem, recognizing that transformation happens faster when we empower others to build with us.

In April, we launched on Google Cloud Marketplace, expanding our reach to Google Cloud customers seeking intelligent infrastructure automation.

In September, the HashiCorp partnership extended our reach into enterprises managing complex, multi-cloud environments where autonomy isn't just valuable—it's essential.

AWS recognized our work by featuring StackGen in their Agent Launch program where we became a launch partner for the AWS Agent Marketplace with our AI SRE capabilities, validating that autonomous infrastructure isn't a niche experiment—it's the next paradigm.

December saw a lot of partnership breakthroughs. Cognizant chose StackGen to power infrastructure transformation for their global clients, proving that enterprises are ready for this shift.

Our Wiz integration brought cloud security into the deployment conversation—because intelligent infrastructure must be secure infrastructure. This integration demonstrates our commitment to making security a native part of autonomous operations.

And Kiro IDE with Aiden MCP Server demonstrated what becomes possible when AI-driven development tools and autonomous infrastructure work in concert. The developer experience isn't just improved—it's transformed.

Validation From the Market

Industry recognition came from multiple directions this year.

Gartner recognized StackGen as a Cool Vendor in 2025, acknowledging our momentum and vision as an emerging force in the platform engineering space. But more important than analyst validation was customer validation.

We grew our revenue by 10x this year and added some of the largest and most innovative enterprises in the world as our customers. We welcomed Autodesk, Bancolombia, Nielsen, OneTrust to our ever growing customer base. These aren't the companies looking for incremental improvements,they're organizations betting on a fundamentally different approach to infrastructure—one that's intelligent, adaptive, and autonomous.

They chose StackGen because they recognized that the old paradigm—manual configuration, reactive operations, and human-bottlenecked deployment—simply cannot scale to meet the demands of modern software development.

Their trust validates our thesis: the future belongs to infrastructure that thinks.

The Team That Made It Possible

None of this happens without exceptional people making difficult decisions under pressure.

We expanded our leadership team this year with operators who've built platforms at scale, engineers who think in systems, and visionaries who aren't afraid to challenge assumptions about what infrastructure should be.

In 2025, we welcomed exceptional leaders who brought the expertise and vision needed to scale our mission:

John Jamie joined as VP of Marketing, bringing deep expertise in developer-focused brand building and go-to-market strategy that resonates with technical audiences.

Arul Jegadish Francis came to us through the OpsVerse acquisition as VP of AI Engineering, bringing world-class expertise in building intelligent observability and autonomous operations at scale.

Sanjeev Sharma joined as VP of Platform and Customer Success, a recognized thought leader in DevOps and platform engineering who helps enterprises navigate complex transformations.

Ray Edwards stepped in as VP of Sales, bringing decades of experience building enterprise sales organizations and deep relationships across the Fortune 500.

What strikes me most about our team isn't just their talent—it's their conviction. They're not here to build better tooling. They're here to make obsolete entire categories of infrastructure toil.

That kind of ambition attracts rare talent. And I'm grateful every day for the team that's chosen to build this future with us.

Beyond our leadership team, we've grown our engineering, product, and customer success organizations with people who share a common trait: they see infrastructure not as a cost center, but as the foundation for what's possible. They understand that the best way to predict the future is to build it.

Support That Fuels Audacity

To our investors: thank you.

Thank you for believing that infrastructure could be more than plumbing. Thank you for supporting our decision to think bigger, aim further, and resist the temptation to optimize for short-term milestones over long-term transformation.

The conversations we've had this year—particularly around our Series A trajectory—have reinforced something I've always believed: the best investors don't just fund companies. They fund conviction.

And your conviction in what we're building has given us the confidence to pursue a vision that might have seemed too ambitious just two years ago.

What 2026 Holds

I won't telegraph our entire roadmap, but I will say this: if 2025 was about proving that autonomous infrastructure is possible, 2026 will be about making it inevitable.

We're building toward a world where:

• Infrastructure adapts in real-time to application needs, scaling resources before demand spikes occur and self-healing incidents without human intervention.
• Deployments optimize themselves for reliability and cost, learning from each release to improve the next.
• Security and compliance are enforced autonomously, with guardrails that evolve as threats emerge.
• Developers focus entirely on the product logic while StackGen handles everything operational.
• Routine infrastructure operations are fully automated, while AI prepares risk-scored insights to make high-stakes manual reviews faster and smarter.

The difference is profound. Traditional automation says "if X happens, do Y." autonomous infrastructure says "here's the outcome I need to achieve—let me figure out the optimal path to get there." It's the difference between following a recipe and understanding how to cook.

We're investing heavily in several key areas: advanced reasoning capabilities that allow our platform to understand trade-offs between competing priorities; multi-modal learning that lets infrastructure improve through observation, not just explicit training; and distributed intelligence that enables different parts of the stack to coordinate without central orchestration.

The technical challenges are immense. But so is the opportunity. Every company is becoming a software company, and every software company is drowning in infrastructure complexity. The team that solves this problem doesn't just build a successful business—they reshape how the entire industry operates.

The Moment That Matters

Every founder faces a moment when they realize their company is no longer just solving a problem—it's establishing a new paradigm.

For StackGen, that moment was watching a customer's infrastructure self-heal from an incident before their team even knew something was wrong. Watching deployment pipelines rewrite themselves for efficiency. Watching Aiden reason across logs, metrics, and infrastructure state to surface insights no human would have found.

These aren't demos. They're glimpses of a future that's already arriving.

The question isn't whether infrastructure will become autonomous. The question is who will build it, who will adopt it first, and which companies will be left behind trying to manually manage complexity that software should handle.

The Work Continues

Thank you to everyone who challenged us, joined us, bet on us, shipped with us, and believed that infrastructure could be radically better.

2025 was the year we proved autonomous infrastructure isn't science fiction.

2026 will be the year it becomes the standard.

Let's build it together.

— Sachin Aggarwal
Founder & CEO, StackGen