Code can tell you what changed, but rarely why a particular path was chosen, what alternatives were rejected, or which constraint made the decision necessary.
About Mithrandir
Software keeps the change.
We preserve the reason.
The decisions behind a codebase are scattered across Slack threads, meetings, tickets, and the memories of people who may eventually leave. Mithrandir exists to make that reasoning a permanent, retrievable part of the software itself.
- FOUNDED
- 2026
- RESEARCH
- CMU · LTI
What we believe
We are building a knowledge system that connects those decisions to the code they explain, makes them available to every AI tool, and enforces access before restricted context reaches a model.
Every company is quietly forgetting why it made its most important decisions.
THE MEMORY GAP
Research
Built alongside ongoing research.
Our work is informed by Salih Mert Uzun's ongoing research at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, Language Technologies Institute, on the limits of determinism and rule-following in large language models.
Who's building this
Emir Akar
CO-FOUNDER
Built Mithrandir's entire web platform, the site you're looking at right now. Previously built enterprise systems across multiple projects.
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Salih Mert Uzun
CO-FOUNDER
Leads Mithrandir's system architecture and design. Built and sold a patent-pending product to 10+ venues across the US.
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