LocusX

LocusX is a Montréal-based gaming technology company developing an AI-powered issue resolution engine for video game and other complex software development. Its product, KAIRO, is positioned as an AI platform for game bug fixing, built for the scale and complexity of AAA production and intended to turn bug handling from passive tracking into an AI-driven workflow. The workflow described by the company has four stages: automated bug capture (logs, video, player input and metadata, with duplicate merging and video editing before a Jira ticket is created); integration into a studio's existing stack; AI bug analysis using a set of agents (a ticket summarizer, a classifier that narrows the likely buggy files, and multiple investigator agents); and fix support, including root-cause insights, code and binary location of the cause, interactive debugging, opening the relevant location in an editor, and identifying the associated Perforce commit.

Press coverage describes the platform as ingesting game data and returning recommendations through a suite of agents covering QA process automation, resolution recommendations, metric visualization, build system assistance, player trend identification and testing coverage validation, with real-time dashboards for sharing bug resolution metrics with stakeholders. The engine uses large language models to identify and propose fixes but does not apply fixes automatically; according to CEO Francois Pelland, developers are best suited to make the final call. The company's near-term focus is improving studios' "fix rate," with plans to later address the "find rate" of identifying bugs.

Founding story

LocusX was created through a venture studio model in a first-time collaboration between Montréal venture builder Diagram and entertainment-tech investor Triptyq, both of which were involved from the company's start. Co-founder and CEO Francois Pelland spent more than 25 years in games, including roles at Ubisoft, Electronic Arts, Tencent and Google, and co-founded Legion Labs; he says he watched quality assurance grow more labour-intensive as games became more complex and observed developers more anxious about shipping with bugs than about game quality. Co-founder and CTO Yan Côté previously co-founded mixed-reality headset maker Vrvana with Triptyq partner Bertrand Nepveu; the technology was acquired by Apple and informed the Vision Pro, and Côté brings applied machine learning and immersive technology experience.

Business model

LocusX sells KAIRO as a subscription software product for development teams, distributed as a plug-in that integrates into a studio's existing toolchain, with self-serve tiers alongside custom enterprise agreements that can include private-cloud deployment, data residency and studio-tuned models.

Published pricing lists a free trial tier with limited bug capture and root-cause analysis, Unreal and IDE integration, email and chat support and cloud storage; a Teams tier at $20 per user per month (usage-variable, $30 per user per month with SSO authentication) adding SSO management, per-project invoice billing and usage analytics; and a custom-priced, usage-variable Enterprise tier adding optional VPC deployment, priority support and account management, data residency options and studio-tuned intelligence.

Traction

Closed a CAD $3 million seed round at the end of July 2025, announced in September 2025, co-led by Diagram and Triptyq, with funding earmarked for product refinement and growing a then five-person team. The product was pre-launch and waitlist-gated, and no customer studios had been named publicly.

Latest developments

Following the September 2025 seed announcement, LocusX said it would use the capital to refine the issue resolution engine and expand its team, extend its focus from improving developers' fix rate to also improving bug find rate, and eventually market the engine beyond game development to other software verticals and creative programming media such as AR and VR.