Overmind bags $6M to predict deployment blast radius before the explosion

Exclusive How big could the blast radius be if that change you're about to push to production goes catastrophically wrong? Overmind is the latest company to come up with ways to stop the explosion before it happens.

CEO Dylan Ratcliffe is keen on the words "blast radius," which will be all too familiar to engineers looking glumly at their dashboards after a deployment doesn't go to plan.

Overmind is all about predicting what a change may do to an environment, giving a picture of just how risky a given update might be.

The company has just raised $6 million in a seed round led by Renegade Partners. Not the vast sums raised by certain artificial intelligence companies, but still a chunk of money.

... we've got it to a point now where it's mandatory in quite a lot of our customers. So you ...