Augment Code.
Enterprise coding agent built around a deep-context retrieval engine.
What it is.
Founded in 2022 by the founding team and Guy Gur-Ari — both ex-Google Brain. Augment's bet is that retrieval quality, not model quality, is the bottleneck for enterprise coding. The Context Engine indexes the full codebase and feeds tuned context windows to Claude and GPT-5. Backed by Sutter Hill, Lightspeed, and Index at a $977M valuation in 2024.
Where it fits.
Engineering organisations with monorepos above one million lines of code where Copilot and Cursor lose grounding. Used inside Lemonade, Webflow, and several Fortune 500 platform teams. The deep-context retrieval story is the differentiator — agent throughput tracks index quality more than model choice.
- Best-in-class retrieval for million-line monorepos
- Founding team from Google Brain and Microsoft Research
- Enterprise SSO and audit logging from day one
- Pricing well above mass-market IDE assistants
- Smaller community than Cursor and Copilot
Frequently asked.
What is the Augment Context Engine?
A retrieval system that indexes the full codebase and serves tuned context to the model per task. Augment claims it outperforms standard RAG on monorepo benchmarks by a wide margin.
Which models does Augment use?
Claude and GPT-5 are the default routing pair. Enterprise customers can pin a single model for compliance reasons.
Who founded Augment?
the founding team, ex-Microsoft Research and Google Brain, and Guy Gur-Ari, ex-Google Brain. Both founded the company in 2022 after a year of stealth work.
