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Frigade

Hi, we're Frigadefri-GADE · like “brigade”, with an F.

We help people understand your software and get their work done.

The Frigade team in their San Francisco office.
What we believe
  1. Care about the defaults.

    Frigade becomes part of your product. Its components should look and feel like they belong there from the start. We put care into the defaults, including the empty states and the way a checklist closes when you're done.

  2. Use what we build.

    We use Frigade to onboard and support our own customers. Working with the same product our customers use helps us spot the awkward steps and decide what to improve.

  3. Work directly with customers.

    Customers talk directly with our engineers, designers, and founders. The people building a feature also help customers put it to use, so questions and feedback reach the people who can act on them.

  4. Improve what's already in use.

    We keep working on features after they launch. Customer feedback helps us decide where a fix or a simpler workflow will do more good than another feature.

How we got here

It started with onboarding.

At LinkedIn, an internal system helped product teams build onboarding flows without starting from scratch. We wanted to make that kind of tooling available to other companies.

That became Frigade Engage: React components for checklists, tours, and announcements that developers could make their own.

Working with customers also showed us how much effort goes into keeping guidance current as a product changes. Moving a button or changing a workflow can leave a tour pointing people to the wrong place.

With Frigade Assistant, we took a different approach to that problem. It learns a product by using it, then helps people navigate the screen they're on and complete tasks. Engage gives teams control over the flows they design; Assistant helps with the questions and tasks that come up along the way.

A teammate giving a thumbs up between monitors.
The team at their desks during a working session.
A teammate caught in thought at their desk.
The founders in front of the Y Combinator sign.
The team

Previously at LinkedIn, Discord, and Digit.

Eric Brownrout

Eric Brownrout

Cofounder

Christian Mathiesen

Christian Mathiesen

Cofounder

Micah Snyder

Micah Snyder

Founding Engineer

Elton Lai-Rego

Elton Lai-Rego

Senior Engineer

How we work

We work in person from our office on Market Street in San Francisco. Most days end with someone leaning over someone else's screen, demoing what they built.

That carries into how we work with customers. We want to see where you're getting stuck, try an improvement, and get it back to you while the problem is still fresh.

Backed by

Our investors.

Y Combinator

Y Combinator

Startup Accelerator

Craft Ventures

Craft Ventures

Venture Capital

General Catalyst

General Catalyst

Venture Capital

Defy.vc

Defy.vc

Venture Capital

Magic Fund

Magic Fund

Venture Capital

Guillermo Rauch

Guillermo Rauch

Founder of Vercel

Arash Ferdowsi

Arash Ferdowsi

Cofounder of Dropbox

Jean-Denis Greze

Jean-Denis Greze

CTO at Plaid

Emrecan Dogan

Emrecan Dogan

Head of Product at Glean

Paul Klein IV

Paul Klein IV

Founder at Browserbase

Tido Carriero

Tido Carriero

Head of Enterprise at Cursor

Ilana Elbaz

Ilana Elbaz

Head of Sales at Deel

Aatif Awan

Aatif Awan

Founder of Indus Valley Capital

Lasse Espeholt

Lasse Espeholt

Staff at Google Brain

Maik Wehmeyer

Maik Wehmeyer

Cofounder of Taktile

Let's talk about your product.

Tell us what you're building and where people get stuck. We'll help you figure out whether Frigade is a good fit.

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