The VERIQON Story

How a personal problem became a solution for software teams everywhere

VERIQON didn't start as a company idea. It started as a personal problem.

While building two AI-driven SaaS products in parallel, I noticed something unsettling. The software wasn't failing. The team wasn't making obvious mistakes. Features were shipping. Metrics looked fine.

And yet, over time, things felt… heavier.

Simple changes took longer. New features caused unexpected side effects. Certain areas of the codebase became untouchable. Nobody could point to a single breaking moment, but everyone sensed the same thing:

The system was quietly getting worse.

There was no alarm. No clear signal. No moment where someone said, "This is the change that caused it."

The problem wasn't bad code. It was invisible drift.

Small decisions accumulating. Shortcuts compounding. Complexity spreading just slowly enough to escape attention.

As a founder, this was uncomfortable. I wasn't writing most of the code myself, but I was responsible for the outcome. I had to make decisions about when to move fast, when to refactor, when to add features, and when to stop and stabilize.

The truth was, I was making those decisions with incomplete information.

Developers could explain parts of the system. Documentation existed, but it was always slightly out of date. Code reviews focused on what changed, not on what the change did to the system over time.

What I wanted didn't exist:

  • A clear snapshot of what the codebase actually looks like today
  • A way to see how it is evolving week by week
  • Early warnings when "small changes" quietly made things worse
  • Information I could use to make better decisions before problems became expensive

So I started designing VERIQON for my own projects.

Not as an AI that claims to "understand everything," but as a system that watches, remembers, and compares. A system that treats the codebase as something living, not static.

VERIQON focuses on:

  • Structure, not just syntax
  • Change patterns, not single commits
  • Trends over time, not one-off explanations

It creates a clear snapshot of your system today, then continuously tracks how it changes. When risk increases, complexity grows, or fragile areas get touched too often, it surfaces those signals early, while the cost of fixing them is still low.

VERIQON exists because most software doesn't fail loudly. It fails quietly. And by the time everyone agrees there's a problem, it's already expensive.

I built VERIQON so founders, CTOs, and teams can see drift while it's still small, understandable, and fixable. So decisions are based on evidence, not gut feeling. And so growing software businesses don't wake up one day facing a mountain that formed one tiny step at a time.

That's the problem VERIQON was built to solve.

Leon Markovic, Founder & CEO of VERIQON - Professional headshot

Leon Markovic

Founder & CEO

Building VERIQON to help software teams see the invisible drift before it becomes expensive.