Crafting, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of an end-to-end infrastructure platform, has raised $5.5 million in a Seed funding round led by Mischief.
The round also saw participation from WndrCo and a group of angel investors, including Andy Manoske, Arash Ferdowsi, Lenny Rachitsky, Gokul Rajaram, Merrill Lutsky, and other technical founders and operators.
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The company plans to use the funds to grow its operations and development work.
Crafting is designed specifically for engineers at AI-focused companies managing complex, multi-service systems with real data and dependencies, including early customers like Faire, Brex, Webflow, Verkada, Persona, and Instabase.
Crafting for Agents offers Kubernetes interception, multi-service orchestration, hot-swapping services, and automatic failover across regions and cloud providers. It creates production-like environments tailored to each customer’s tech stack, allowing teams to work quickly, and reliably. This helps engineering teams focus on their unique challenges while keeping control over complex systems.
Crafting for Agents is a platform that lets AI agents test code against real production dependencies like databases, caches, message queues and third-party services. It gives controlled access to credentials and infrastructure, so agents can work safely while meeting enterprise security standards.
Teams using Crafting report:
- Shipping 25% more pull requests each quarter without adding team members
- Increasing AI-generated code from single digits to 70% in one year
- Saving engineers 2.5 hours per week just on setting up environments
AI generated code has grown quickly in modern engineering teams, but validation tools haven’t kept up. Agents can create pull requests, but they can not safely test changes in real production systems. Crafting fills this gap by letting agents work in production like environments designed for each company’s architecture.
Leading engineering teams are increasingly using AI generated code to boost output and speed. A recent survey found that 42% of committed code is now AI generated or assisted, and this is expected to rise to 65% by 2027. While autonomous agents are creating pull requests, monitoring repositories, and writing production code, validation hasn’t kept up. Code is being produced faster, but complex enterprise systems can’t be fully replicated in a sandbox, so engineers remain the bottleneck before anything can be deployed.
“We started Crafting to solve the challenges we faced as engineering leaders at AI-first companies,” said Sumeet Vaidya, Co-Founder and CEO of Crafting. “The fastest-growing companies remove bottlenecks safely and let agents work inside real infrastructure. With Crafting, teams can scale AI output without compromising enterprise security.”
“Before Crafting, every solution we tried was either a patchwork or something we had to build ourselves,” said Cheuk-man Kong, Senior Engineering Manager at Faire. “Now, with Crafting, we’ve scaled our entire agentic system, giving on-demand agents secure and scalable access to internal systems, MCP servers, and cloud resources.”
“We see many tools that just put agents in a sandbox and call it progress,” said Dustin Moring, General Partner at Mischief. “Crafting takes a different approach, letting engineers ship validated code, not just push it to production. That’s what truly empowers engineering teams that value secure autonomy.”
“The move to agentic engineering needs more than small tools,” said Andy Manoske, seed investor in Crafting. “It requires a system that unites human and AI engineers across complex enterprise systems. Crafting solves this end-to-end.”
About Crafting
Founded in 2021, Crafting builds a complete infrastructure for agent-driven engineering at AI-focused companies like Faire, Brex, Verkada, and Instabase. Its platform, Crafting for Agents, allows AI agents and human engineers to write, test, and deploy code in production-like environments tailored to complex, multi-service systems. The platform supports controlled autonomy, multi-cloud resilience, Kubernetes orchestration, and integration with modern CI/CD pipelines.
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