About

The company behind
the guardrail.

Hipper is an independent software company building a pre-flight knowledge guardrail for AI coding agents. We're built in New Zealand, and we ground autonomous agents in current truth — before they write a line of code.

What we do

Frontier models are brilliant but frozen at their training cutoff. They invent packages that don't exist and write last year's syntax for this year's libraries. Hipper sits in front of the agent as a fast, cached check that catches both — so the code that ships is current and secure, in fewer tokens.

  1. Ground — is a model or API name real, current, or a typo? Checked against live vendor docs.
  2. Guard — every proposed npm & PyPI package is classified, and hallucinated or typosquatted ones are blocked before install.
  3. Inject — modern-syntax deltas and "did-you-mean" corrections land in the agent's context automatically.

How the business works

Hipper is a digital-native, software-as-a-service business. It's delivered entirely online — an API, a CLI, and an MCP server that plug into the coding agents developers already use. There's nothing to ship and nothing to install on our side; the product, the sign-up, and the billing all live on the web.

Free to start

A free tier, funded by anonymized usage telemetry that also sharpens the knowledge index for everyone.

Paid for privacy & depth

Paid plans turn telemetry off and add deeper, prioritized, kept-current coverage for teams who need it.

Self-serve, worldwide

Sign in with GitHub or an email link and start in under a minute, from anywhere — no sales call, no card.

The team

Brian Mangano — Founder

Brian founded Hipper after hitting the same wall again and again while building software with AI coding agents: confident models reaching for packages that don't exist and writing outdated APIs for fast-moving libraries. He builds Hipper from New Zealand, dogfooding the agent-driven workflow the product is designed to protect.

Built in New Zealand

Hipper is an independent, founder-run company based in New Zealand, operating globally over the web. Our policies and agreements are governed by New Zealand law — see the Legal pages for the detail.

Get in touch

Questions about Hipper, the product, or the company? Email hello@hipper.dev.