Tom Drysdale spent the better part of a decade inside Stripe, on infrastructure teams that he declines to name precisely. He left in 2024 and spent six months working through what he describes, dryly, as 'the question of whether I missed the office.' By his own telling, he did not. He started Drysdale Tools in early 2025.
The product is a single agent that runs against a developer's working tree and proposes structural refactors before the developer writes them. It does not write the refactor. It produces a written argument for why the refactor is worth doing and an estimate of the surface area the refactor will touch. Drysdale's claim is that the agent is most useful exactly when the developer is least sure whether to begin.
Drysdale is one of our most quoted operators on the question of whether an agentic-first solo founder can credibly compete with a venture-funded team. He says yes. His own ledger so far supports him.