Companies to combine agentic AI reasoning with industry-leading zero-trust, multilayered code verification platform
Sonar, a global leader in AI code verification and governance, has acquired Gitar, the AI-native code review platform. Now, Sonar will deliver industry-leading AI code review unified with the industry’s most comprehensive verification engine, purpose-built for the agentic era. Sonar’s AI code verification platform, SonarQube, will seamlessly integrate with Gitar to provide code review from the moment an agent starts writing code to the moment it lands in the codebase.
More than 75% of the Fortune 100 and 7 million developers and their AI agents rely on SonarQube to ensure the quality, security, and architectural integrity of AI-generated code. SonarQube’s results are measurable: teams that use Sonar are 44% less likely to experience outages caused by AI-generated code, and codebases cleaned by SonarQube reduce AI agent token usage by up to 8%.
“Enterprise adoption of AI depends on strong verification of agentic output. Right now, every enterprise is asking the same question: ‘How do we move fast with AI without breaking things?’ Now, enterprises will have a unified platform that brings together the best of AI code review and the most comprehensive verification engine in the market, providing the highest level of assurance whether you’re using Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Devin, or GitHub Copilot,” said Tariq Shaukat, CEO at Sonar.
Gitar is led by Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, a veteran of Uber, Google, and Meta, and Gautam Korlam, who together helped build Uber’s centralized developer platform. Adl-Tabatabai and Korlam will join Sonar and lead the development of the Gitar platform. Gitar will continue to be available as a standalone product with no impact to existing customers. Gitar will also be available to purchase with SonarQube and SonarQube Advanced Security.
“While the market chased AI code generation, we focused on the harder problem: validating it. We built Gitar because we saw firsthand what happens when development velocity outpaces code quality. AI has made that problem an order of magnitude bigger. We’re deeply proud of what we’ve built at Gitar, and excited to bring that work into Sonar. Together, we’ll deliver the greatest, unbeatable verification platform for the agentic era,” said Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, CEO at Gitar.
With this acquisition, Sonar customers will be able to analyze the syntax, data flows, logic flows, control flows, architectures, and dependencies in their codebase; set and enforce their own standards in a highly accurate, consistent, repeatable, transparent, and auditable manner; agentically fix identified issues; and do all of this as the agents are writing code and in their CI workflows. Sonar’s offering moves organizations away from noisy signals and complex operational overhead to clear, actionable outcomes that improve software quality, increase delivery confidence, and reduce agentic coding time and token costs.
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