MyDecisive launches AI DevOps platform with $12M, claims 90% cost cut

MyDecisive enters a market where enterprises increasingly struggle with the operational complexity of AI-at-scale. Founder Ari Zilka brings significant credibility: he built Terracotta Inc. (later sold to Software AG), architected the first version of Walmart.com, and most recently ran technology at Hortonworks before it was acquired by Cloudera in 2019. This experience in large-scale infrastructure suggests the team understands the observability and governance challenges enterprises face.

The company's core pitch rests on two observations the body articulates: as both human and AI developers change production systems continuously, enterprises often lack the visibility to govern those changes safely, leaving performance, security, and cost data unused until an incident forces a response. By rooting its commercial product (Octant) in an open-source foundation (SmartHub), MyDecisive aims to offer customers the flexibility of open standards without forcing a choice between open-source and enterprise-grade tooling.

The claimed outcomes—a nearly 90% reduction in total production system operating cost and time-to-value of a single day—are significant if validated in practice. Copper Sky Capital's investment, described as typical for the firm's focus on seed and Series A rounds in AI-first software, suggests early-stage backing rather than later validation. The fact that MyDecisive says it is already running the software in production across multiple sectors (financial services, retail, telecommunications, healthcare) rather than merely testing it may indicate the claims rest on deployed experience.