Manifesto

We believe AI should ship products, not screenshots.

MangoX was started by a small team of engineers who got tired of demoware. We wanted an AI tool that produced systems we could actually own — schema, APIs, RBAC, deploy and all. So we built one.

Principles

What we believe.

Own your output.

Every line MangoX generates lives in your repo. We never lock you into our runtime — eject is a first-class operation.

Schema is the source of truth.

We start with the data model. Everything — APIs, admin, types, validation — flows from there.

Tests before declarations.

The tester agent has veto power. A build is not done until the contract tests pass.

Default to production.

Audit logs, RBAC, signed cookies, parameterized SQL — all on by default. Security is not a feature flag.

Team

The people building MangoX.

Owen Marshall

Co-founder · Engineering

Previously eng lead at Stackpilot. Wrote a lot of admin-panel scaffolding by hand. Decided to fix it.

Priya Raghav

Co-founder · Product

Ex-PM at Northwind. Spent five years watching prototypes die in handoff. Now obsessed with shipping real systems.

Felix Otieno

Founding engineer

Built the planner agent. Believes constrained generation beats clever prompting every time.

Backed by

Sequoia

a16z

Kleiner Perkins

Y Combinator

Founders Fund

Index Ventures

South Park Commons

Operator Collective

In the press

TechCrunch
“MangoX is the first AI dev tool aimed at the boring 80% of building software — and that's exactly why developers are paying attention.”
— Sarah Park, Mar 2026

The Verge
“It's a fundamentally different category from V0 or Lovable — and the output is hard to argue with.”
— Max Cohen, Feb 2026

Hacker News (front page)
“Generated a working internal tool over lunch. Schema, admin, RBAC. I had to re-read the README.”
— u/yc-deploy, Jan 2026

Join us

We're hiring.

Small team, big ambition. Remote-first with hubs in SF and London.

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