August 28, 2024: Agency: Debugging Tools for AI Agents - San Francisco startup Agency, founded from AI hackathons, offers AgentOps, a platform for monitoring and debugging AI agents. Co-founders Alex Reibman, Adam Silverman, and Shawn Qiu shifted focus from building AI agents to developing tools to improve their reliability. AgentOps helps teams understand and manage AI behavior. The startup, now with $2.6 million in pre-seed funding, partners with AI developers like Cohere and Mistral.