About MergeWhy
Built for engineers who
hate compliance busywork.
We started MergeWhy because we were tired of spending weeks before every audit collecting screenshots and filling out spreadsheets. There had to be a better way.
Our Mission
Make compliance evidence automatic.
Every code change has a story: why it was decided, who approved it, what risks were considered, and how it was tested. Today, that story is scattered across GitHub PRs, Jira tickets, Slack threads, and CI pipelines. When auditors ask “why was this change made?” teams scramble to reconstruct the answer.
MergeWhy captures this evidence automatically at merge time, assembles it into a single Decision Evidence Record, seals it with SHA-256 cryptography, and maps it to the compliance frameworks your organization needs: SOC 2, FedRAMP, CMMC, HIPAA, DORA, and 9 more.
The result is zero-effort compliance documentation. Engineers merge normally. Auditors get tamper-proof evidence. Everyone saves weeks of manual work per audit cycle.
Our Values
Principles that guide
everything we build.
Developer First
Compliance should never interrupt your flow. MergeWhy captures evidence at merge time, from the tools engineers already use. No extra forms, no context switching, no compliance sprints.
Audit-Grade Integrity
Every decision record is SHA-256 sealed at merge time and stored in a tamper-proof evidence vault. When auditors ask for proof, you have cryptographic certainty, not screenshots.
Open Standards
We build on OSCAL 1.1.2 for federal compliance, standard OIDC for authentication, and open APIs for integration. No vendor lock-in, no proprietary formats, no walled gardens.
The Team
Small team. Big mission.
We're a small team of security engineers and DevOps practitioners who have lived through too many audit cycles. We built MergeWhy to solve our own problem first, and now we're sharing it with every engineering team that feels the same pain.
Based in the US. Remote-first. Building in public.
Join Us
Ready to eliminate
compliance busywork?
Connect your GitHub repositories and see evidence captured automatically from your very first PR merge.