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PathFinder AI

Intelligent incident prioritisation platform that uses explainable AI to score, correlate, and recommend actions on IT incidents. Built for UK SMEs who can't afford a 20-person NOC.

Triage Speed

85% faster

Noise Reduction

60%

Starting Price

£49/mo

Setup Time

< 5 min

The Problem

Every SME with more than a handful of services eventually hits the same wall: alert fatigue. Monitoring tools fire hundreds of alerts per week. Most are noise. But buried in that noise are the critical incidents that could take down your business. Without a 24/7 team, you either monitor everything (and burn out) or ignore most alerts (and miss the one that matters).

What We Saw Managing 4 Production Platforms

The Reality

  • • 200+ alerts/week across our own platforms
  • • 73% were informational or duplicates
  • • 15% required investigation but no action
  • • Only 12% were genuinely actionable incidents
  • • Average triage time: 8-12 minutes per alert

The Cost

  • • 15-20 hours/week spent on triage alone
  • • P1 incidents missed because they looked like P3
  • • On-call engineers burnt out after 3 months
  • • No consistent scoring = inconsistent response
  • • Enterprise tools like PagerDuty cost £600+/month

How We Built PathFinder AI

The Core Idea: Explainable AI Scoring

Instead of another dashboard that shows you everything, PathFinder AI tells you what matters and why. Every incident gets an AI-generated score (0-100) with a plain-English explanation: "Scored 87/100 because: database connection errors correlate with 3 previous P1 outages, affects payment processing service, occurred during peak hours."

Step 1: Ingest

Connect your monitoring tools (email alerts, Slack, webhooks, API). PathFinder AI ingests everything into a unified incident stream.

Step 2: Score

AI analyses each incident using 15+ signals: historical patterns, service criticality, time of day, blast radius, correlation with recent changes.

Step 3: Act

Get prioritised recommendations: auto-resolve noise, escalate P1s immediately, group related alerts into a single incident thread.

The AI Scoring Engine

Not a black box. Every score comes with a breakdown so your team understands why an incident was flagged as critical or dismissed as noise.

Signal Analysis

15+ weighted signals scored in real-time:

  • ✓ Service criticality tier (revenue-impacting services score higher)
  • ✓ Historical incident patterns (has this failed before?)
  • ✓ Blast radius estimation (how many users/services affected?)
  • ✓ Time correlation (peak hours vs maintenance windows)
  • ✓ Change proximity (was anything deployed in the last 2 hours?)

Correlation Engine

Groups related alerts automatically:

  • ✓ 5 "disk space low" alerts from same cluster → 1 incident
  • ✓ API timeout + database slow query + CPU spike → correlated root cause
  • ✓ Duplicate suppression (same alert fired 10 times in 2 minutes)

Recommendations

Actionable next steps, not just alerts:

  • ✓ "Auto-resolved: CPU spike normalised after 3 minutes"
  • ✓ "Escalate: Payment gateway timeout affecting checkout — similar to P1-2024-031"
  • ✓ "Investigate: Unusual login pattern detected — possible credential compromise"

Core Features

Multi-Source Ingestion

Email, Slack, webhooks, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, ServiceNow, custom APIs

AI Severity Scoring

0-100 score with plain-English explanation for every incident

Alert Correlation

Automatically groups related alerts into single incident threads

Smart Escalation

Route P1s to on-call, suppress noise, auto-resolve transients

Team Dashboard

Real-time MTTR, incident volume, response times, team workload

Runbook Integration

Link runbooks to incident types for instant response guidance

Post-Incident Reports

Auto-generated timeline, impact analysis, and improvement suggestions

Custom Scoring Rules

Override AI defaults for your specific infrastructure and services

Shift Management

On-call schedules, rotation management, coverage gaps detection

SLA Tracking

Monitor response/resolution times against your SLA commitments

Mobile Alerts

Push notifications for P1/P2 with one-tap acknowledge

API & Webhooks

Full REST API for automation and custom integrations

How PathFinder AI Compares

FeaturePathFinder AIPagerDutyOpsgenie
AI Incident Scoring✓ ExplainableBasic
Alert Correlation✓ Automatic✓ Manual rules✓ Basic
Setup Time< 5 minutes2-4 weeks1-2 weeks
Pricing (SME)From £49/moFrom £600/moFrom £300/mo
UK Data ResidencyUS-basedUS-based
Explainable Recommendations
No Enterprise Lock-in✓ MonthlyAnnual contractsAnnual contracts

Pricing

Starter

£49/mo

For small teams getting started

  • ✓ Up to 500 alerts/month
  • ✓ AI scoring & correlation
  • ✓ 2 integrations
  • ✓ Email + Slack notifications
  • ✓ 30-day incident history
Most Popular

Professional

£149/mo

For growing operations teams

  • ✓ Up to 5,000 alerts/month
  • ✓ Advanced AI + custom rules
  • ✓ Unlimited integrations
  • ✓ On-call scheduling
  • ✓ Post-incident reports
  • ✓ 90-day history + analytics
  • ✓ API access

Enterprise

Custom

For larger teams and MSPs

  • ✓ Unlimited alerts
  • ✓ Multi-tenant support
  • ✓ SSO / SAML
  • ✓ Dedicated account manager
  • ✓ Custom SLA
  • ✓ On-premise deployment option

Why We Built PathFinder AI

We needed it ourselves

Managing production platforms (FixFinder, BookAMechanic, Regulas) generating 200+ weekly alerts, we needed a way to separate signal from noise without hiring a 24/7 operations team.

Enterprise tools don't fit SMEs

PagerDuty and Opsgenie are designed for engineering teams of 50+. They cost £600+/month, require weeks of setup, and assume you have dedicated SRE staff. Most UK SMEs have 1-3 people managing IT alongside everything else.

AI should explain itself

"AI-powered" tools that just show a number aren't useful. If an incident scores 87/100, you need to know why. Our scoring model provides plain-English reasoning so your team can validate the AI's judgment and learn from it.

Technical Architecture

Stack

Frontend: Next.js 14, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS

Backend: Node.js / Express API

AI Engine: Custom scoring model (rule-based + ML hybrid)

Database: PostgreSQL with time-series extensions

Queue: Redis for real-time alert processing

Infrastructure: Docker, Traefik, automated CI/CD

Hosting: UK-based data centres

Design Principles

✓ Explainability over accuracy — every score has reasoning

✓ 5-minute setup — no consulting engagement needed

✓ SME-first pricing — no enterprise tax

✓ UK data residency — GDPR compliant by default

✓ Open integrations — works with what you already use

✓ Progressive complexity — start simple, add rules over time

Try PathFinder AI

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