We are excited to share that Gitar is joining forces with Sonar.
Gitar grew out of years building developer infrastructure at Uber: the build systems, code analysis, test platforms, and automation that kept thousands of engineers productive on one of the largest monorepos in the industry. We saw firsthand what world-class developer experience looks like inside a leading tech company, and we started Gitar to bring those benefits to everyone else.
The problem we're tackling today is one that has come sharply into focus since we started the company: AI is generating more code than ever, but generating code is the easy part; validating it is the hard part, and validation hasn't kept pace. Engineering teams are shipping more changes, quicker than ever, using AI agents, and the question of whether any given change is actually correct, safe, and behaviorally sound has only gotten harder to answer. Static analysis catches a lot, but it doesn't reason about intent, or about natural language, the source of truth in an AI-native world; a CI pass tells you the build compiled and the tests didn't break, not that the code does what it's supposed to do. Gitar is built to close that gap: an AI-native validation platform for a world where code is generated faster than humans can review, merge and release.
Why Sonar
The fit with Sonar was obvious to both teams from the start. SonarQube has set the bar for deterministic, auditable static analysis across more than 40 languages, covering quality, security, reliability, and architectural drift with a rigor and consistency the rest of the industry measures against. It treats AI-generated code with appropriate skepticism: code is verified against quality profiles and gates regardless of who, or what, wrote it.
Gitar comes at the same problem from a different lens. Where SonarQube is precise, deterministic, and exhaustive against a known-issue catalog, Gitar is contextual and adaptive, reading the intent behind the change. The two approaches don't compete; they reinforce each other. Findings from one inform the other. The coverage they provide jointly closes gaps that neither could alone.
For every engineering team standardizing on AI-native development, the combination matters. As more code is written by agents and assistants, the discipline of validating it, structurally and behaviorally, becomes the work. Sonar already operates the deterministic half of that discipline at scale. Bringing Gitar's AI-native review and lifecycle automation into the same platform means teams can trust what ships has been examined from every angle that matters.
What this means for our customers
If you're a Gitar customer, nothing changes in how Gitar works today. Your existing integrations, CI connections, and configurations remain in place. The product continues to operate, support continues uninterrupted, and we'll keep shipping improvements on the same cadence you're used to. If you have questions about your account, contact support as you normally would.
Over time, you'll see the boundary between Gitar and SonarQube blur in ways that make both stronger: tighter signal from static analysis informing AI review, AI-generated fixes routed through deterministic gates before they land, and a single workflow that automates the PR lifecycle end-to-end while preserving the auditability your security and compliance teams require.
If you're already a SonarQube customer, expect AI-native review, fix, and lifecycle automation to become a natural extension of the platform you already trust. If you're a Gitar customer, you're now backed by an organization with deep roots in code quality, a global customer base.
What's next
With Sonar, we can now pursue our mission at far greater scale, bringing the benefits of world-class code validation to the 7 million developers across 75% of the Fortune 100 that Sonar serves today. The vision is stronger than ever: code validation should automate the full pull request lifecycle; it should be AI-native, aware of your codebase, conventions, and intent; and it should fix what it finds and validate the fix against CI.
We're grateful to the customers who trusted us with their most critical workflows, to the team that built Gitar with conviction, and to the investors and advisors who backed the vision from day one. We're excited to continue the work alongside the Sonar team, and the best part is, the most important chapter is the one we're starting now.
Onward,
Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai & Gautam Korlam
Co-founders, Gitar