Built for IT teams who are tired of guessing
Every organization has undocumented dependencies — systems that quietly power critical workflows, connections no one wrote down, and changes that break things no one expected. Tracer exists to fix that.
What we believe
Visibility over assumptions
Most dependency problems aren't technical — they're invisible. Tracer makes every connection explicit so teams stop relying on tribal knowledge.
Simple tools for complex systems
Enterprise tooling shouldn't require enterprise complexity. Tracer is opinionated about what matters and keeps everything else out of your way.
Built by practitioners
Tracer comes from real experience managing tangled tech stacks — not a product manager's guess at what IT teams need.
The problem
It starts innocently enough. A Django CRM writes customer records to Postgres. A data pipeline picks them up and loads them into BigQuery. A Looker dashboard queries BigQuery to power the executive report that goes out every Monday morning. Three systems, two hops, zero documentation.
Then someone renames a column. Or migrates the database. Or deprecates an API endpoint. The change looks safe in isolation — the tests pass, the PR gets approved, and it ships on Friday. By Monday, the dashboard is broken and nobody knows why. Hours are spent tracing back through Slack history, digging through old tickets, and asking “does anyone know what depends on this?”
Tracer is the answer to that question. It gives IT teams a living map of their systems and connections — one they can update as things change, query before making changes, and share so the whole team is working from the same picture. Impact analysis tells you what breaks before you break it. Documentation stays linked to the systems it describes. And nothing lives only in someone's head.
The team
A small team with a focused mission.
Alex
Founder & Developer