Values - Timeline - Mission
About Burnside Project
Burnside Project turns raw database behavior into predictive intelligence, helping teams anticipate failures, reduce operational risk, and operate PostgreSQL with confidence as systems—and organizations—grow.
Our Mission
Replace reactive database monitoring with behavior-driven prediction, giving organizations time to act before outages, degradation, and cost spikes impact the business.
Our Story
Founded by industry veterans who experienced firsthand the challenges of implementing robust data infrastructure, Burnside Project was born from the belief that powerful data solutions should be accessible to every business. We combine deep technical expertise with a passion for solving real-world problems.
Our Values
The principles that guide everything we do
Build Intelligence
Make production databases self-aware—capable of predicting failure, adapting to change, and operating reliably at scale. We learns the normal operating behavior of each databases and detects when that behavior begins to drift toward failure.
Innovation
We believe innovation means solving real problems — not adding noise.We push beyond reactive monitoring by applying machine learning, behavioral modeling, and systems thinking to anticipate issues before they impact production.
Transparency
Trust is built through clarity. Every insight we deliver is explainable — showing what changed, why it matters, and how conclusions were reached — so teams can act with confidence.
Resilience
Resilience isn’t about reacting faster — it’s about preventing failure.We design systems that learn, adapt, and withstand change, helping teams stay ahead of instability in dynamic production environments.
Sustainability
Sustainability starts with efficiency.By predicting instability and eliminating waste before it happens, we help teams run leaner systems — using less compute, fewer resources, and avoiding unnecessary scale and outages.
Customer Empowerment
We empower teams with insight, not dependency.By making system behavior transparent and predictions explainable, we give customers the knowledge and confidence to make their own informed decisions — without black boxes or vendor lock-in.
Our Journey
Key milestones in our company's growth and evolution
Origin Story: Built for Myself First
While operating a production e-commerce MySQL database, I encountered recurring midday utilization spikes that traditional monitoring couldn’t explain.
Diving into MySQL’s internal observability signals — connection states, query execution patterns, buffer pool behavior, and lock dynamics — revealed a rich but underused source of truth about database health.
These built-in signals are the holy grail of MySQL reliability, and when modeled together with AI, they enable early detection of behavioral drift and prediction of failure before performance degrades or revenue is impacted.
Idea Incubation
The concept emerged from deep technical exploration of streaming data platforms while working with large enterprise organizations, revealing new opportunities at the intersection of real-time data and applied AI.
Based on that realization, we published multiple thought-leadership blog posts to validate the market interest and refine positioning.
Proof of Concept works
The proof of concept demonstrates disciplined cloud execution — proving predictive value with a cloud-agnostic design while tightly controlling infrastructure and storage costs.
In parallel, we published multiple thought-leadership articles to test market interest and validate go-to-market messaging.
Infra Built
The platform infrastructure prioritizes cost-efficient cloud agnostic design, reducing storage overhead while enabling scalable deployments across managed and self-managed PostgreSQL environments.
Beta Testing
Beta testing focuses on validating a lightweight collector agent across macOS and Linux, with PostgreSQL 14+ compatibility and end-to-end real-time pipeline verification.
Provisioning for Cloud Marketplace
- Provisioning for Cloud Marketplace focuses on automated, secure, and scalable onboarding, ensuring that once a customer subscribes via a marketplace listing, the platform can automatically.
- Provision required cloud resources
- Establish secure connectivity
- Apply licensing and entitlements
- Activate the service without manual intervention
- This milestone is a critical step toward enterprise-ready distribution, self-serve adoption, and revenue scalability.
Beta Release of pg-collection edge agent
Raising seed funding
We’re raising a $1M seed round at an $8M pre-money valuation cap to accelerate product development, scale early customer adoption, and reach general availability
Ready to Work Together?
Let’s explore how predictive AI intelligence can transform your production databases into proactive, insight-driven systems.