Kieran Klaassen
Bio
Kieran Klaassen is GM of Cora, Every's AI email assistant, shipped solo without writing code by hand. He is the grandfather of compound engineering: AI agents plan, write, review, and test every change; each fix becomes a learning the system reuses, so every unit of work makes the next easier.
Session (1)
Kieran Klaassen created "Compound Engineering," a methodology and open-source plugin (21.9k GitHub stars) for running AI agent teams that has become widely adopted, and he is the General Manager of Cora at Every — making him a compelling speaker for anyone looking to understand how small teams can ship at the pace of large ones using agentic AI workflows.
Recent talks (4)
Compound Engineering: Building Systems That Build ThemselvesFuture Coding Day 2026 · Sep 2026
Compound Engineering: Manage Teams of AI Agents with Kieran Klaassen of CoraThis New Way · Oct 2025
Ruby startup demo: Kieran Klaassen, CoraSan Francisco Ruby Conference 2025 · Nov 2025Building Cora SoloBlastoff Rails 2026 · Jun 2026
Compound Engineering: Manage Teams of AI Agents with Kieran Klaassen of CoraThis New Way · Oct 2025Ruby startup demo: Kieran Klaassen, CoraSan Francisco Ruby Conference 2025 · Nov 2025Building Cora SoloBlastoff Rails 2026 · Jun 2026GitHub
@kieranklaassen- kieranklaassen/leva★ 141LLM Evaluation Framework for Rails apps to be used with production data
- kieranklaassen/riffrec★ 71Capture golden product feedback sessions with screen, voice, DOM, network, and console context for AI agents
- kieranklaassen/hotkeys-rails★ 36Keyboard shortcuts for Hotwire apps — no dependencies, no configuration, just HTML
- kieranklaassen/ruby_llm-skills★ 31Agent Skills extension for RubyLLM
- EveryInc/compound-engineering-pluginorg★ 21,900Official Compound Engineering plugin for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and more
Recent writing (6)
- The Folder Is the Agent · blog · Apr 2026
- Compound Engineering: The Definitive Guide · blog · Feb 2026
- I Stopped Reading Code. My Code Reviews Got Better. · blog · Jan 2026
- Teach Your AI to Think Like a Senior Engineer · blog · Nov 2025
- Stop Coding and Start Planning · blog · Nov 2025
- How I Use Claude Code to Ship Like a Team of Five · blog · Jul 2025
Podcasts & interviews (5)
- How to Make Claude Code Better Every Time You Use It · Creator Economy (Peter Yang) · Feb 2026
- Compound Engineering: Manage Teams of AI Agents with Kieran Klaassen of Cora · This New Way · Oct 2025
- Evaluating LLMs with Leva · The Ruby AI Podcast · Aug 2025
- How We Built Our AI Email Assistant: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Cora · AI and I (Every) · Jun 2025
- How Two Engineers Ship Like a Team of 15 With AI Agents · AI and I (Every) · Jun 2025
Public activity researched automatically · as of Jun 2026