A team built to rewire audit
Our team combines decades of audit leadership with deep experience scaling AI-powered platforms and enterprise systems. We've led SOX programs at public companies, we've built category-defining companies, we've explored AI development prior to coming together, and now we're eager to tackle a hard and overlooked problem in enterprise technology: automating audit testing with AI.
The people behind Petual
A growing team with the right mix
We're supported by a growing team of engineers, designers, and product leaders who share a passion for tackling hard, regulated problems with cutting-edge AI. Together, we bring the right mix of audit expertise, engineering depth, and product focus to deliver audit-ready results enterprises and firms can trust.
Snir Kodesh
2x founder and tech executive/operator who sold his first company to Lyft. Snir previously led engineering teams at Retool and Lyft, and brings deep experience scaling AI-powered products, platforms, businesses, and teams to match.
Eliot Walker
Ex-Lyft Fleet CTO with a passion for building zero-to-one products. With over 12 years of industry experience at Lyft and Amazon, and having built out core agentic products before, Eliot has designed, owned, and operated critical systems at scale, with an expertise in applied ML.
Andrew Li
Seasoned engineer who built core marketplace and insurance systems at Lyft, scaled the engineering team at Augmedix, and operated as a founding engineer at an agentic AI company. Andrew brings deep expertise in applied ML and large-scale distributed systems.
David Coulombe
Former Lyft VP of Internal Audit. David brings decades of experience in risk, audit, and SOX programs, with a career spanning public company audit leadership and enterprise risk management.
Minutes, not months
By combining deep audit expertise with advanced AI, Petual delivers testing and insights in minutes instead of months—providing enterprises with broader coverage, higher precision, and a modern alternative to decades-old SOX and ITGC testing practices.
Petual at a glance
Petual blog post by Snir Kodesh, 'Audit is meant to be creative. We're bringing it back with agentic AI.', and PR Newswire release 'Petual raises $20M to bring agentic AI to enterprise audit and compliance', company announcement, as published, 23 April 2026.
- Company
- Petual, Inc.
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, CA
- Founding team
- Snir Kodesh, Eliot Walker, Andrew Li and David Coulombe
- What it does
- Control testing for internal audit teams, for SOX and for controls beyond it. An agent prepares each test, and your team reviews and signs.
- Funding
- A $20 million seed round announced on 2026-04-23, backed by Andreessen Horowitz and First Round.
- Deployment
- Multi-tenant, single-tenant, or self-hosted in your own cloud.
- Security
- Maintains a SOC 2 Type II attestation.
- Integrates with
- Workiva, Optro, Jira, ServiceNow, Snowflake, Okta and Google Drive.
Questions people ask first
What does Petual do?
Petual is control testing for internal audit teams, for SOX and for controls beyond it. An agent prepares each test, and your reviewers check it and sign.
Who is Petual for?
Internal audit, SOX and controls teams: the people who prepare control tests and the people who review and sign them.
Is Petual an audit management or GRC platform?
No. Petual is control testing, and it works with the systems your team already keeps. It integrates with Workiva, Optro, Jira, ServiceNow, Snowflake, Okta and Google Drive, and writes test results back into Optro.
How can my external auditor rely on this?
You review and sign every conclusion, as you do today. In the Excel workpaper, you can click any cell and see where Petual found that value. The workpaper follows your template and your past work.
How do I know it's right?
Check it the way you'd check a new associate's work. Open the conclusion, follow the citation and judge the evidence. Petual flags an unclear attribute before the test runs.
Where can Petual be hosted?
Multi-tenant, single-tenant, or self-hosted in your own cloud.
Does Petual have a SOC 2?
Petual maintains a SOC 2 Type II attestation.
Is Petual hiring?
Yes, we're hiring across functions. Open roles are on the careers page.
Bring a few controls your team tested by hand last year
Use those workpapers as the answer key. We run the same controls in Petual, and you compare the two, attribute by attribute. Where they differ, the citation shows you why.
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