Ben Jaderstrom

A few months overdue. I am fired up to share that I have re-joined Cognition following the Windsurf acquisition to help lead and scale the Majors sales org. Cognition is one of the most talent-dense companies on the planet. And they're pushing the boundaries of what's possible in software engineering. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲. - One customer is 2x'ing their engineering output through Devin alone - Nubank achieved an 8x efficiency gain and 20x cost savings - Itaú migrated 59 services from .NET to Java over 6x faster - Citi and Goldman are deploying Devin at scale and talking about it publicly And here is what most people are still missing: 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮 𝗰𝗼-𝗽𝗶𝗹𝗼𝘁. 𝗜𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿. It's a fundamental shift in how software gets built. It operates inside the SDLC. It executes work end-to-end. And it enables every engineer to orchestrate hundreds of agents. 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗺. Could not be more excited to reunite with Sandeep Shah, Isaac Kim, Henry G., Alex Maske, Jeff Wang, and the rest of the team, and to keep building alongside Nicholas Erdenberger, Russell Kaplan, Scott Wu, and the founding team who laid the groundwork for something special. 𝗪𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴. 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗲. If you want to be part of the shift, reach out. Let's build something special.

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Four months ago, Cognition’s run-rate revenue was $492M. Today, it’s almost $900M. And last week showed how quickly things are accelerating. - We raised $2B at a $48B valuation, led by Andreessen Horowitz and Accel. - We launched SWE-2, our new model that matches GPT-5.6 Sol and Fable 5.1 at 64% lower cost, and lands within a few points of GPT-6 Astra at 25% of the cost. - We launched Devin Fusion in the IDE and CLI, pairing a frontier lead model with SWE-2 to plan, delegate, implement, test, and review work together, at up to 60% lower cost. 𝗔𝗜 𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘀 𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲. The conversation isn't “How can AI make my developers faster?” It’s “What work can I delegate entirely to AI, and what can my organization accomplish when the economics make that possible at scale?” Cognition is an independent agent lab with a singular focus: 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗔𝗜 𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿. I’m hiring leaders and reps across Retail & CPG, Healthcare, Industrials, Media & Gaming, Travel & Hospitality, and Telecommunications. If you want to help build the future of software engineering with us, reach out.

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14,000 Citi engineers now use Devin. On the Q3 call, Citi CEO Jane Fraser said Devin is making in-house work far more efficient, and that in-sourcing has cut vendor spend 30% YoY, with a long way to run. For engineering leaders, the math has changed. Work that used to default to a vendor is now a candidate for your team to own. Everything is in scope with Devin. Proud to see what Citi’s technology teams are accomplishing. The question is now: what would you do with an infinite army of software engineers?

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Today Cognition is introducing the 𝐀𝐈 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐞. If Devin delivers less engineering value than you're paying for, we fund your usage until it does. 𝐔𝐩 𝐭𝐨 $𝟏𝟎𝐌. Every exec is wondering what is AI actually producing for their business. AI spend is up. Eng velocity feels faster. But when the board asks what the ROI actually is, the answer is tokens consumed or lines of code generated. The harder question: how do you isolate what AI produced versus everything else your team was already doing? We've been thinking hard about this at Cognition. So we built an estimator that measures productive engineering output from Devin, validated against how long engineers said the same work would have taken by hand. And we're confident enough in what we found to back it with a guarantee. This is what accountability looks like when you believe what you're selling. AI needs to earn its keep. We're starting by guaranteeing ours does. Link in the comments.

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𝗖𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗿𝗮𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗱 $𝟭𝗕 𝗮𝘁 𝗮 $𝟮𝟲𝗕 𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. Two years ago Devin launched as the first AI software engineer. 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝟴𝟵% 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗥𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝗖𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘁𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳. Enterprise usage is up over 𝟭𝟬𝘅 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿. Run-rate revenue hit $492M. And here's what I see every day from the customers who trusted us early: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲. Mercedes-Benz completed a migration in 8 days that was scoped at 8 months This is what happens when you stop treating AI as a co-pilot and start deploying it as an autonomous engineer that operates inside your SDLC and executes work end-to-end. Software engineering is being transformed. Not incrementally. Fundamentally. To every customer who trusted us with their most critical work: this raise is a reflection of what you've helped us prove. 𝗪𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴. 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗲. If you want to build the future with us, reach out. 𝗢𝗻𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱.

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What a week. Feeling fired up after RAISE Summit 2026. Cognition was headline sponsor at the Louvre. 9k+ attendees. VIP dinner at The Palace of Versailles. Our biggest brand moment in Europe to date. The Cog AI Lounge ran both days with live Devin demos, Aston Martin Aramco F1 car parked in the middle of it. Scott Wu took the main stage to talk about where AI coding agents are headed. Then spent the rest of the week in exec meetings and dinners with the people building the next generation of engineering orgs. Best part of the week: watching our customers and partners, Mercedes-Benz, Snyk, Aston Martin F1, Ferrovial, take the stage themselves to talk about what they're shipping with Devin. The shift from AI as copilot to AI as autonomous engineer is already in production at some of the largest companies in the world. Top question all week: what would you do with an infinite army of engineers? Major props to our Marketing (s/o Zach Diamond, Nicole Zuuring, Carolina Barberii, Mariko Funai, Justine T.) and Forward-Deployed Engineering (s/o Arjun Mishra, Eashan Sinha, Roshan Fernando, Harrison Reeves) teams who put this together, and to everyone who stopped by to say hello. If you want to help build what's next in software engineering, we're hiring for all roles across every team. Reach out. Onward.

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I'll be at RAISE Summit 2026 in Paris next week (July 8-9 at the Louvre) with Cognition. We're proud to be headline sponsors. A few things to highlight if you're attending: Scott Wu is keynoting the mainstage on the 8th -- come hear him on the future of software engineering and where AI coding agents are heading. We'll have our AI Lounge open all week with live Devin demos. If you're evaluating agentic coding at enterprise scale, come find us. We'll also have our Aston Martin Aramco F1 show car on the floor -- a partnership we're fired up about. If you're going to be in Paris, drop me a note. See you there.

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Very excited to share the news about Grafana Labs $220M Series C led by Sequoia Capital and Coatue Management ... We are hiring everywhere for every role. Reach out if you're interested.

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