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SERAC LABS · AMSTERDAM

We build tools for the people
who actually ship the platform.

Serac Labs is a small team making open-source developer tools for ServiceNow and adjacent enterprise platforms. Our belief: the future of platform engineering is amplification, not replacement.

Read the manifesto serac-labs/serac
— Manifesto
v1.2 · Apr 2026

The enterprise AI wave has a script: replace the developer. Feed the agent your stack, wait for miracles, pay per seat you no longer have.

We find that script insulting, and worse, wrong. ServiceNow platforms are shaped by people who know the history of every workaround — why sys_flow.84ac exists, what the change-advisory board will and won't approve, which update-set will break P1 during month-end close.

Serac is built on the opposite premise. We put the reasoning in readable prompts. We put secrets in vaults your agents never see. We ship human-in-the-loop as a default, not a setting. Every run is traceable, forkable, replayable.

Our agents don't replace your developers. They give them a toolbelt sharp enough to ship what used to take a quarter.

— What we stand on
01
Open by default
Core is MIT. Prompts are readable. Traces are exportable. Lock-in is a design failure.
02
Human-in-the-loop
Writes go through a reviewer step. Approvals are explicit. Autonomy is opt-in, step by step.
03
Platform-aware
ServiceNow is not a generic REST API. We ship schema maps, not hopes.
04
Portable by construction
Self-host on Day 0, or let us run it. BYO LLM. BYO vault. BYO observability.
— The name

A serac is what snow
becomes under pressure.

We started as snow-flow — a small CLI helper. Over two years of customer use, pressure, time and altitude turned it into something denser and more structured. Layered. Load-bearing.

Serac is that same material, compressed. Stable enough to build on.

— Team

One founder in Amsterdam.
Hiring the next five.

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Niels van der Werf
CEO · founder
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— The open core

serac-labs/serac

Elastic License v2. All our agent prompts, planner logic, and connectors live in the repo. Read them. Fork them. Run them on your own laptop.

View repo Contributor guide
— terminal bash 
 # clone & run locally $git clone github.com/serac-labs/serac
$cd serac && bun install
$bun dev
# or use the cli $npx @serac-labs/cli init
✓ Serac Core ready at localhost:4000