Welcome Andrew Lau, Co-Founder & CEO and Chris Ward, CRO at Jellyfish on this episode of 🔥 The Lantern 🔥
Jellyfish is a Boston-based, high growth company helping enterprises drive Dev AI productivity with 700+ customers.
🔍 What happened at Jellyfish in 2025? 🔎
2025 was a big year of growth. Jellyfish went from helping companies drive engineering productivity to becoming the command center for Dev AI transformation.
As companies went from using one vibe coding tool to juggling 5 or 6 (like Cursor, Windsurf, Copilot, Augment Code, etc.), they turned to Jellyfish to measure what’s actually working. Like Salesforce for engineering leaders.
The data Jellyfish publishes on how Dev AI adoption is changing the game has become must-read material for CTOs everywhere.
🤝 Why did Chris Ward recently join Jellyfish as CRO? 🤝
Chris had wrapped up an extremely successful run at Vercel, where he experienced 60x revenue growth over four years, as the company’s valuation climbed from $1.1B to $9.3B.
He was supposed to take 6 months off…until he found out about this can’t miss opportunity at Jellyfish.
When he saw the founding team came from the Endeca Mafia, he started back-channeling, and seeing the platform up close sealed it.
Chris has spent his whole career watching CTOs and CPOs argue in boardrooms about what engineering teams are actually doing and Jellyfish solves this problem.
Their newest AI Impact product helps engineering teams measure AI ROI, optimize tooling investments, and build AI enabled teams.
🗺️ What’s critical for Jellyfish to thrive in this market in 2026? 🗺️
Andrew’s message to builders is to be adaptive. The world is changing every three weeks. Operators, product, and GTM leaders all have to be willing to turn fast.
The Dev AI transformation is creating a massive opportunity for companies that can help enterprises disambiguate what’s working across their AI tooling stack.
Jellyfish is positioned right at that intersection!
Chris witnessed this firsthand at Vercel, watching a large customer who bought 4 different vibe coding tools for 20,000 developers with zero insight into adoption, impact, or where the bottlenecks were.
🤔 How can we help Chris, Andrew & Jellyfish grow? 🤔
We need to lean into the Dev AI transformation together, especially here in Boston, to take advantage of this moment to educate each other, share techniques, and harness the wave together.
As Jellyfish grows, Boston grows. If you’re building in the Dev AI space or navigating AI tool adoption across your engineering org, connect with Andrew & Chris and the Jellyfish team!