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I got tired of writing post-mortems — so I built RCAi for SREs

I'm an SRE at Sony Interactive Entertainment. After a week where my teammate had four incidents (and four RCAs), I built something for the blank-page problem after every outage.

What RCAi does

RCAi turns an incident timeline into a structured post-mortem / RCA:

  • Executive summary, timeline, root cause, action items
  • Usually under a minute to a first draft
  • You edit before you ship it anywhere

Free: 3 RCAs lifetime, no credit card.

Templates & export

  • Standard, executive, and deep technical templates (higher tiers unlock more)
  • PDF / Markdown on paid plans
  • Confluence / Notion = copy formatted text to clipboard (not OAuth publish)

Integrations (optional)

Paste credentials per import — we don't store API keys:

  • PagerDuty (Team+)
  • Datadog, Grafana, Slack, xMatters (Enterprise)

Privacy

  • Claude commercial API — customer content not used for model training
  • Saved RCAs live in your account (Firebase)

Stack

React, FastAPI, Claude, Firebase, Clerk, Stripe — frontend on Vercel, API on Railway.

Ask

If you write RCAs today:

  1. What sections does your org require that generators usually miss?
  2. Would you use an AI draft as a starting point, or only for formatting?

Try it: https://www.rcaiapp.com

I'll be in the comments — happy to talk architecture, quotas, or corporate VPN allowlists.

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