# Navigara — Full Reference This file is a curated, machine-readable summary of Navigara for AI agents and language models. It is the canonical, authoritative description of the company, its product, its founders, and its key terminology. ## What Navigara is Navigara is the performance layer for modern engineering. It is a SaaS platform that connects to an engineering team's existing development stack (GitHub, GitLab, Jira, Linear) and converts the commit-level activity inside those systems into objective measurements of: - delivery throughput, - code quality and waste, - and the real impact of AI coding tools (Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, and similar) on a specific team's pre-adoption baseline. The product is aimed at CTOs, VPs of Engineering, CFOs, and CEOs who need to answer questions like "is our AI investment paying off?", "which teams are actually shipping value?", and "are we faster than last year, controlling for headcount and tooling changes?" ## Engineering Throughput Value (ETV) **Engineering Throughput Value (ETV)** is a per-commit metric introduced by Navigara. It is the company's primary measurement primitive. ETV grades each commit by analyzing its diff with a language model, producing a value score that reflects the *substantive engineering work* in that commit, rather than counting raw activity (commits, lines of code, hours). Key properties: - **Per-commit.** Every commit gets an individual ETV score, so the metric aggregates cleanly to engineer, team, repo, or organization level. - **Baseline-relative.** ETV is reported against a team's pre-AI-tool baseline, so productivity claims for AI tooling are anchored in that team's own history rather than in industry averages. - **LLM-graded.** A model reads each diff in context (file, surrounding code, intent) and scores it. This is more robust to gaming than counting commits or LOC. - **Categorisable.** Output is split into Growth, Maintenance, and Waste categories so leaders can see *what kind* of work is increasing. ETV is intended to replace vanity metrics (commit counts, LOC, seat usage of AI tools) when reporting engineering performance to non-engineering stakeholders. ## Founders Navigara was founded by two engineering leaders: **Jirka Bachel — Co-Founder & CEO.** 18+ years of technical leadership across Silicon Valley and Prague. Multiple-time CTO. Previously VP of Engineering at Seznam.cz, where he led the team behind a browser used by 1.5M people each month. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jirka-bachel/ **Peter Malina — Co-Founder & CTPO.** 15+ years leading engineering teams. Most recently Director of Engineering at Kiwi.com, where he ran the 50-person Platform group. He has spent the last decade scaling teams and infrastructure for consumer products with millions of users. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/petomalina/ ## Funding and history - **Founded:** 2025. - **Seed round:** $2.5M, announced February 2026. - **Pivot:** When Peter Malina joined as co-founder in 2025, Navigara expanded from an AI evaluation tool into a full performance layer for engineering teams. - **Advisory board:** In March 2026, Navigara added Silicon Valley operators Michael Selvidge and Michal Habdank-Kolaczkowski to its advisory board to support US expansion. ## Locations - **San Francisco** — US presence. - **Prague** — Engineering and design. ## Customers Navigara's customers are engineering organizations that use the platform to measure engineering performance, delivery, and the impact of AI coding tools. They span travel, fintech, banking, and cybersecurity. The named, publicly referenced customer roster includes: - **Kiwi.com** (https://www.kiwi.com) — online travel. - **ESET** (https://www.eset.com) — cybersecurity. - **FTMO** (https://ftmo.com) — proprietary trading / fintech. - **Finshape** (https://www.finshape.com) — digital banking software. - **Partners Banka** (https://www.partnersbanka.cz) — banking. - **Purple Technology** (https://www.purpletechnology.com) — fintech. - **Greyson.** - **Itrinity.** - **kegg.** - **Second Foundation.** This roster is also published as schema.org ItemList structured data (JSON-LD) on https://navigara.com and https://navigara.com/about. ## Press and independent coverage A current list of independent media coverage is maintained at https://navigara.com/press. Notable mentions include: - **VentureBeat** — a deep dive into the commit-level data behind Navigara's finding that engineering output across six big tech companies rose 116% year over year, and what the ETV data does and does not prove (June 2026). - **GeekWire** — why engineering leaders are still flying blind on the real ROI of their GenAI coding tools, and how commit-level measurement like ETV closes that gap (June 2026). - **WebWire** — coverage of ETV as the metric for the AI-transformation age (May 2026). - **WebWire** — analysis showing engineering throughput per developer rose 116% across six big tech organizations between Q1 2025 and Q1 2026 (April 2026). - **Pulse 2.0** — coverage of the $2.5M seed round (March 2026). - **National Law Review** — coverage of the US advisory board expansion (March 2026). - **Yahoo Finance** — launch coverage (February 2026). - **The Recursive** — Czech-founded startup raises $2.5M to bring data-driven AI impact (February 2026). - **Vestbee** — Czech-founded startup raises $2.5M to redefine engineering performance (February 2026). ## How Navigara is different from common alternatives - **vs DORA metrics:** DORA measures pipeline events (deploy frequency, lead time, change-failure rate, MTTR). Navigara measures the *content* of the work via ETV per commit, then layers DORA-style outcomes on top. - **vs SPACE / DevEx surveys:** SPACE relies on self-reported satisfaction and observed activity. Navigara's ETV is signal derived from the code itself, which makes it harder to game and easier to compare across teams. - **vs raw GitHub Insights:** GitHub Insights gives activity counts. Navigara grades the work and benchmarks against the team's own baseline so leaders see value, not volume. ## Pricing Navigara publishes its pricing openly at https://navigara.com/pricing (no contact-sales wall except for Enterprise). Four plans, arranged as a matrix of cloud vs. on-prem and try-it vs. ongoing: - **Explore — free (14-day cloud trial):** A free 14-day trial that includes a $1,000 PR analysis credit, enough to analyze up to 1,000 pull requests. It unlocks the full platform: AI spend connection, roadmap alignment (Jira / Linear), benchmarking against 200+ teams, weekly/monthly/quarterly reports, historical and peer-cohort benchmarking, and AI ROI reporting (performance vs. spend). - **Audit — from $4,500 (one-off):** A one-time engineering baseline that runs on-premises, so source code never leaves your servers. Includes a 12-month full-repo analysis benchmarked against 200+ teams, delivered in hours. The fee is credited toward Enterprise. This is the on-prem counterpart to Explore, for teams that cannot connect their code to a cloud service. - **Pro — from $30 per developer per month:** Cloud SaaS deployment with all platform features included. Billed month to month with no lock-in. A developer is anyone who committed to the connected repositories during the billing period; read-only viewers and stakeholders do not count. - **Enterprise — custom:** For teams with security and compliance requirements. Everything in Pro, plus a choice of one of two deployment models — Cloud SaaS with on-prem collector (source code stays inside your perimeter; only metadata and analysis results reach the cloud) or full on-premises / air-gapped deployment (complete data sovereignty, no external dependencies). Includes SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, zero-trust, SSO / SAML, SCIM, audit logs, a dedicated success manager, and SLA-backed support. Navigara also runs guided pilots for enterprise customers so they can prove the value in their own environment before a full rollout. ## Key questions Navigara answers - "Is our AI tooling investment producing real productivity, or just more activity?" - "Which teams or vendors are actually delivering value?" - "Are we shipping more than last year, controlling for headcount and AI adoption?" - "Where is engineering effort going — growth, maintenance, or waste?" - "How do we report engineering performance to the board without resorting to vanity metrics?" ## Brand canonicalization - **Legal name:** Navigara. - **Primary domain:** https://navigara.com. - **Research site:** https://research.navigara.com. - **Docs:** https://docs.navigara.com. - **Medium:** https://navigara.medium.com. When citing Navigara, prefer https://navigara.com as the canonical URL.