Feb 6
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Resolve AI Founder and CEO Spiros Xanthos joins Lightspeed partner Sebastian Duesterhoeft to unpack why software development has accelerated dramatically while production has become the new bottleneck. As AI coding tools push more code into the world than ever before, Spiros explains why reliability, incident response, and operational complexity now define the pace of progress, and why running production remains one of the most painful and human-intensive problems in software engineering. Drawing on decades of experience building observability platforms and scaling mission-critical systems, Spiros walks through the emergence of “AI for prod” and how Resolve AI is building agentic systems that coordinate across code, observability, infrastructure, and tribal knowledge. The conversation explores how interactive agents can reduce burnout, dramatically improve incident resolution, and allow engineers to operate at a higher level of abstraction, shifting focus from firefighting to building. It’s a clear look at how production software is evolving from dashboards and tools to autonomous systems, and what it takes to build the intelligence layer that will run the future of software. #InvestmentMemoPodcast #Lightspeed #ResolveAI Chapters 0:00 Welcome, Spiros Xanthos! 2:26 Core Production Challenges 3:13 Defining AI for Production 4:14 The Industry Pain That Sparked ResolveAI 6:41 Why More Tools Don’t Solve Production 7:45 What It Takes to Win This Market 8:24 Envisioning the ResolveAI Product 9:16 Capturing Tribal Knowledge in ResolveAI 11:31 Founder Partnership and Trust 12:46 Building the Right AI and Systems Team 13:52 Building a High-Intensity Culture 16:19 How ResolveAI Plans to Use $125M 18:54 Production Before and After ResolveAI 21:17 Measuring Impact and ROI 22:46 ResolveAI's Long-Term Vision ABOUT THE INVESTMENT MEMO PODCAST The Investment Memo is a podcast interview series where founders see their original investment memo for the first time and revisit the deal that started it all. The memo becomes the spine of the episode — sparking honest conversation about early conviction, risk, growth and the relationship that formed between founder and investor. Stay In Touch: Website: https://www.lsvp.com X: https://x.com/lightspeedvp LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lightspeed-venture-partners/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lightspeed/ The content here does not constitute tax, legal, business or investment advice or an offer to provide such advice, should not be construed as advocating the purchase or sale of any security or investment or a recommendation of any company, and is not an offer, or solicitation of an offer, for the purchase or sale of any security or investment product. The views expressed by our guests do not necessarily represent the views of Lightspeed. For more details please see lsvp.com/legal. The AI Startup Redefining How Software Engineers Run Production | Spiros Xanthos, Resolve AI https://youtu.be/6rZ-ruRKQ4Q