About us
Our team combines decades of audit leadership with deep experience scaling AI-powered platforms and enterprise systems . We've led SOX programs at public companies, we've built category-defining companies, we've explored AI development prior to coming together, and now we're eager to tackle a hard and overlooked problem in enterprise technology: automating audit testing with AI.
Our founding team
Snir Kodesh
2x founder and tech executive/operator who sold his first company to Lyft. Snir previously led engineering teams at Retool and Lyft, and brings deep experience scaling AI-powered products, platforms, businesses, and teams to match.
Eliot Walker
ex-Lyft Fleet CTO with a passion for building zero-to-one products. With over 12 years of industry experience at Lyft and Amazon, and having built out core agentic products before, Eliot has designed, owned, and operated critical systems at scale, with an expertise in applied ML.
Andrew Li
seasoned engineer who built core marketplace and insurance systems at Lyft, scaled the engineering team at Augmedix, and operated as a founding engineer at an agentic AI company. Andrew brings deep expertise in applied ML and large-scale distributed systems.
David Coulombe
former Lyft VP of Internal Audit. David brings decades of experience in risk, audit, and SOX programs, with a career spanning public company audit leadership and enterprise risk management.
Beyond the founders
We're supported by a growing team of engineers, designers, and product leaders who share a passion for tackling hard, regulated problems with cutting-edge AI. Together, we bring the right mix of audit expertise, engineering depth, and product focus to deliver audit-ready results enterprises and firms can trust.
Why Petual
By combining deep audit expertise with advanced AI , Petual delivers testing and insights in minutes instead of months—providing enterprises with broader coverage, higher precision, and a modern alternative to decades-old SOX and ITGC testing practices.