About.
Alex Devarno
Founder · Engineering
Alex spent a decade in regulated software — automotive functional safety first, then medical-device firmware — where the answer to "can you prove this requirement is implemented and verified?" decided whether a product shipped. The tools available for that job were either heavyweight enterprise suites that engineers refused to touch or spreadsheets that auditors refused to accept. Traceo is the third option.
Before Traceo, Alex built developer tooling at a series of B2B platforms; the work that informs Traceo most directly was rebuilding a release-engineering pipeline so that every artifact in production carried a content-addressed lineage back to a tracked requirement. That experience — and the reaction of the auditors who saw it — is the seed of this product.
Engineering · Design
Role · TBA
We are hiring. If "requirements management with audit-grade traceability, for teams who treat specs like code" describes a problem you want to spend the next five years on, email careers@traceo.cat. We are not a fake roster — this slot is genuinely open.
Founding context.
Traceo started in late 2025 from a single observation: the requirements management category had been frozen for fifteen years. DOORS, Polarion, Jama — same model, same UI register, same procurement dance. The engineers who actually had to write requirements either avoided the tools entirely (drafting in Markdown, syncing nothing) or paid the daily tax of using them.
Meanwhile, the auditors on the other side of the conversation were asking harder questions every year. SOC 2, ISO 26262, IEC 62304, EU AI Act, FDA cybersecurity guidance — the bar for \"prove it\" kept rising while the tools that produced the evidence kept declining. The gap between what engineers will use and what auditors will accept is the wedge Traceo lives in.
We serve regulated systems engineers first — the people writing requirements for medical devices, automotive ECUs, aerospace avionics, industrial robotics, and increasingly AI/ML systems with EU AI Act exposure. They are the ones whose week the current tools wreck most thoroughly. Everything else — the dev-team tier, the marketing surface, the AI authoring loop — is downstream of serving them well.
The one-sentence north star: requirements management with audit-grade traceability, for teams who treat specs like code and auditors who treat them like evidence. Both halves of that sentence are load-bearing — drop either and the product collapses into something the category already has.
Reach the team: hello@traceo.cat.