Investor Brief

Overview

RouteSafe turns a CI annotation into the gate that catches every silent 404 before a deploy ships. Built for the staff engineer at a 30–300-person product company who owns the deploy pipeline and has been on the hook the last time a rename quietly broke SEO or a support flow. Why now: route management has fragmented across Next.js, Astro, Remix, headless CMSes, and AI-edited content — the post-deploy crawl model that Screaming Frog and Ahrefs built for a slower web cannot keep up with weekly route churn. Why us: the wedge is the PR diff, not the production crawl — none of the incumbents annotate the PR that introduces the break with the specific slugs that will 404.

RouteSafe is a developer-tools SaaS that turns post-deploy 404 audits into a pre-merge PR check. The buyer is a 30–300-person product company whose marketing or product team silently breaks inbound links during route renames or CMS-driven slug churn; the wedge is owning the PR-gate moment rather than the post-deploy crawl that Screaming Frog, Ahrefs, and OSS link-checkers already cover. NOTE: upstream PE fixture `slug-ok` shipped with empty `top_reasons` / `top_risks` / `score_breakdown`, so director confidence is set to 0.45 and downstream agents should treat detail as low-fidelity until a real idea description arrives.