← scrutineer
who we arepron.

1. two engineers who think your business already knows the answers.

ETYMOLOGY

[est. 2026, Los Angeles] We watched a distributor lose its best customers silently, in plain sight of its own ERP. The order history knew. Nobody asked it. Scrutineer began as the one who asks.

fr. Lat. scrutari, to search thoroughly
COMPILED BY
wil·liam ru·bi·o n.linkedin ↗

1. co-founder and CEO. 2. built the ML pricing engine that bought over $15M of vehicles at Plug, and ran the data platform behind it, alone, at 23. 3. answers his own phone.

jus·tin bird n.linkedin ↗

1. co-founder and CTO. 2. engineering lead at Plug; second engineering hire, most tenured engineer, builder of its agentic onboarding system. 3. distrusts any number without a source.

USAGE NOTE

Between us: one has run a company's data end to end, the other has led its engineering. We've shipped systems that move real money for real businesses, and we build Scrutineer the same way, inside real companies, with the people who own the numbers.

CORRESPONDENCE