Techstars selected Atono for its portfolio

Your AI tools are fast. But they don't know your product.

 
Your Techstars perk

Two products. One Techstars.

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How your perk works

Built by founders who've been in your shoes

“Speed is the whole game at a startup — but it only compounds when your team, and now your AI, are building the same product instead of five versions of it. We built Atono so you can build fast, together.”

Troy McAlpin

Troy McAlpin

CEO, Atono · Previously scaled xMatters to $240M acquisition

The problem

Wrong gets caught. Almost-right gets shipped.

 
Product Glossary Step 02
The fix

Give your AI the product context it's missing

Atono turns your documentation into a structured Glossary — your product's concepts, their definitions, synonyms, and how they relate. Something every teammate, tool, and AI agent can read. Built from your docs, curated by your team, and kept current as the product changes.

Without glossary:
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*AuraSync mood-based sprint planning*
User story:
As a Scrum Master, I want to assess team mood before sprint planning so I can adjust sprint capacity and task assignments to match the team's state.

Acceptance criteria:
1. Responses are anonymized before results are surfaced to the Scrum Master and Product Owner.
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Guessed roles. Invented an anonymization model the product doesn't have.

With glossary:
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*AuraSync mood-based sprint planning*
User story:
As a backlog owner, I want AuraSync to suggest a sprint scope that accounts for team capacity and morale alongside story points and velocity.

Acceptance criteria:
1. No anonymization — role access is defined by team roles. Members who don't submit a check-in are excluded from the average.
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Your team's real terms — and the product's actual access model.

The difference isn't the prompt. It's the context the AI can reach.

Why this works

It's a chain reaction. Product Knowledge is upstream.

Product context

To next step

Accurate specs

To next step

Better code, first time

Velocity
↑
Quality
↑
DevEx
↑
Cost
↓
How it works

Set it up in minutes

It takes minutes to set up — and replaces "almost right" with actually right.
Step 1

Connect your docs

Step 2

Structure your product context

Step 3

Write with AI that gets it

Two ways to run Atono

Start where you are

Replace your stack, or keep it and add product context on top. Atono works for a team of three and for a division of three thousand.
Full Platform

Replace and consolidate

Intelligence Layer

Keep your tools, add product context

We tested this on ourselves first

“We built the Product Glossary for ourselves at Atono and ran it on our own work. 60% of the AI-generated stories needed changes, and it even caught features we'd labeled as new that were actually enhancements. That kind of mistake easily costs a sprint.”

 Doug Peete

Doug Peete

Head of Product, Atono

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discover missing work mid-cycle

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keep product context in people's heads

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have no shared context for their AI tools

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use AI for requirements, not just code

“It’s refreshing to see a product built with true cross-functional collaboration in mind. The ability to toggle features directly from stories and generate bug reports with full diagnostic context is brilliant – huge time-saver for devs and QA alike.”

Ryden Sun

Ryden Sun

Head of Product

Careers Operations

What changes

Why Techstars partnered with Atono

“Our founders build with AI from day one. We brought Atono into the Growth Network because it gives their AI tools real product context — so portfolio teams can move fast without shipping the wrong thing.”

Ariel Lopez

Ariel Lopez

Partner Success Manager, Techstars

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