Ardent, legally ArdentAI, Inc., develops database sandboxing software for coding agents and developers. Its platform creates isolated copies of production PostgreSQL databases in under six seconds using logical replication, DDL triggers, and copy-on-write storage, letting generated database code run against real data without affecting live systems. The product works with existing providers such as AWS RDS, Supabase, PlanetScale, and self-hosted Postgres, and is operated through a git-style command-line interface.
The company began under the name Ardent AI with an autonomous data-engineer agent and pivoted to database sandboxing after untested generated code churned customer revenue. Ardent participated in Y Combinator's Spring 2026 batch, and customers named by the company include Supermemory, Surface Labs, and Zennagents. Enterprise plans add bring-your-own-cloud deployment and anonymization hooks that remove sensitive data before branch results are returned.
