S11 Bonus: Trevor Stuart, Split & Harness

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Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Trevor Stuart was born in Florida, but raised in Seattle. He was the son of a tech CFO and an Episcopalian minister - so he learned life at many different angles. He graduated from Boston College, and went into investment banking at Morgan Stanley. Beyond that, he worked at RelateIQ prior to being acquired by Salesforce, which then led him to start his own thing. Outside of tech, he's married and expecting his first child soon. He lives in Sonoma, and loves wine - which type depends on his mood and the time of year.

At RelateIQ, Trevor and his team had a core problem - pushing more code, and looking to move faster, but limiting the amount of quality issues. His co-founder built the early workings of a system he had seen at LinkedIn, around gate keeping features. Eventually, post acquisition of this company, they decided to start building this solution on their own... which led them toward their own acquisition.

This is the creation story of Split andHarness.

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0:00.0	Guys, I've got something cool to tell you about.
0:02.5	As an engineering leader, a manager, and an engineer myself, I'm geeking out over a new product I'm just discovering that helps me with each of these points of view.
0:11.0	The great team at SEMA, builders of the SEMA intelligence platform, have been working on what they call the product roadmap radar.
0:19.0	It's this integrated solution that uses generative AI to observe
0:22.2	your code and Jira in order to summarize, synthesize, and make it easier to deliver your roadmap.
0:28.2	It not only helps keep your roadmap on track, but it helps reduce the time engineers spend in
0:33.2	meetings. Cue all the engineers clapping. The product roadmap radar is extremely easy to set up.
0:40.3	This only takes about five minutes, just enable your integrations and let AI do all the mapping
0:44.8	for you.
0:45.9	My favorite part?
0:46.9	I'm glad you asked.
0:47.9	The radar doesn't just tell you about your roadmap.
0:50.5	It suggests changes you need to make, based on the code that's been written and the stories that have been addressed.
0:56.0	No commenting, no special setup, all generative AI.
1:00.0	It gives you an outside view of your roadmap based on the code and projects a target completion date based on outstanding work and activity.
1:08.0	Again, no comments, no special setup.
1:10.0	It even detects shadow work when
1:12.3	development is being done but Jura isn't being updated. I'm pretty jazzed about it, and I think
1:17.1	you will be too. Take a second to watch a short but awesome demo video. Go to codestory.com
1:23.6	slash PRR to watch it today. You'll like what you see.
1:29.6	This episode is sponsored by Postman. Postman is the world's leading API platform,
1:35.3	trusted by 98% of the Fortune 500 and over 40 million developers. Tap into APIs from 18,000-plus
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