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Async is an open-source task management tool that doesn't just track work, it does it. Async automatically triages tickets, completes them, and tests from end-to-end. We're fully open-source and self-hostable, so you can customize Async to work for your company and your processes. Our mission is to kill engineering busywork: bug fixes, UI tweaks, papercuts, and KTLO.
Active Founders
Paul Bae
Paul Bae
Founder
Went to college at 12, graduated at 15, dropped out of grad school at 16 and spent ten years in tech since. Ex-Amazon, Ex-Stripe, former manager, second-time founder.
Mikkel Kim
Mikkel Kim
Founder
Building the best coding agent @Async
Company Launches
Async: We build coding agents to do the gruntwork
See original launch post

Hello 🫡
We’re Paul and Mikkel, the cofounders of Async.




TL;DR
We build coding agents to do the gruntwork. They’re already better than Cursor and Claude Code in a few ways:

  1. Mobile. We’re not just a Slack bot. We built a mobile app that’s intuitive, simple, and actually works.
  2. Parallelism. Fire and forget. Don’t stare at your monitor — work on many tasks all at once.
  3. Accurate: We run asynchronously, i.e., that means we can take more time to get things right.
  4. Secure: Don’t worry about our agents messing up your laptop, we run in the cloud.

https://youtu.be/WzFP3799K2Y

Problem

It’s easier than ever to prototype a new idea. But it still isn’t easy to scale.
Work crops up: bug fixes, papercuts, migrations. And neither you, nor your team, want to do it.

And it’s not only painful, it’s expensive to do.
Context switching is costly. Asking your engineers (or being the engineer) to work on urgent requests from Slack drains productivity and kills morale.

Solution

Async does what you don’t want to do. Just ask Async.


And once it’s done, Async will send you a PR to review.

We built our own coding agent that achieves 66% accuracy on SWE-Bench verified (#3 as of writing).

  • It indexes your entire repo to learn things like your coding style, preferred libraries, design patterns, and file structure.
  • It consists of many small agents that are specialized to a particular task, such as environment setup, execution planning, and implementation.
  • It does what engineers normally do before raising a PR: it runs build, runs lint, runs tests, and creates preview deployments from within the app.

Next steps:

  • We’re going to hit #1 on SWE-Bench verified and open source our agent.
  • We’re going to start QA testing your code, if you use Async, you’ll get screenshots of the changes it made

Team

We’re old friends (known each other since college) and we’ve both worked in tech for almost ten years now in various places (Amazon, Meta, Stripe)

We’re builders. We like building products that solve problems for people.
But the reality is, we didn’t always get to do that.

With Async, we’re going to change that.

Our Ask

  1. Give us a shot and try us out. It’s available now.
  2. If you know any other managers, directors, or founders that could relate with the above, please send them our way: founders@async.build

Thank you and cheers.
-Paul & Mikkel.

Async
Founded:2025
Batch:Summer 2025
Team Size:2
Status:
Active
Primary Partner:Tyler Bosmeny