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Source: Serval Customer Roster — Exhaustive Sweep (Jun 2026)

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Source: Serval Customer Roster — Exhaustive Sweep (Jun 2026)

Compiled 2026-06-06 from a 16-angle discovery + per-candidate adversarial verification sweep (124 raw mentions → 32 algorithmic-unique → 26 distinct after alias-dedup: 12 confirmed / 10 single-source / 4 rejected). Both Serval-official surfaces and independent sources were used; the known serval-techcrunch-mock.vercel.app poisoning vector was hard-excluded.

What It Covers

The full publicly-discoverable Serval customer base — Serval’s four dedicated case-study pages (serval.com/customers-*), the homepage logo wall (“Trusted by world’s most innovative companies”), independent press, investor posts, FeaturedCustomers testimonials, and customer-side LinkedIn/job-posting evidence.

Official case studies (richest primary sources)

Perplexity — serval.com/customers-perplexity

  • >50% of all IT requests automated autonomously with no human intervention; team targeting 80–90%.
  • Top use case: day-1 onboarding, run hundreds of times (Google Groups, tool access, account setup — from within Slack).
  • Displaced Freshservice (“offered limited automation capabilities”).
  • Saves each admin ~1–2 hrs/day; sustained through 3× headcount growth in 12 months with a small IT team.
  • Named: Vernon Man (Head of IT), Matt Wu (IT Manager), Kyle Polley (Security).
  • Expanding into identity/access management and replacing further point solutions.

Mercor — serval.com/customers-mercor

  • 60%+ of tickets zero-touch (50%+ in earlier framing).
  • 4,000+ external contractors onboarded via automation, in minutes.
  • Adopted by IT first (Dana Stocking, Head of IT), then spread to ~7 non-IT teams (infrastructure, payments, engineering, security, HR, office support) building their own workflows.
  • No prior ticketing system — Mercor ran on an ad-hoc Slack channel and chose Serval “instead of defaulting to legacy ITSM.”
  • Quote: “Anytime I start building a new tech stack at a company now, it will always definitely include Serval.” — Dana Stocking.

Together AI — serval.com/customers-togetherai

  • Automates 95% of just-in-time access requests (assists with the remaining 5%); tracks full conversation, duration, and business justification as a single source of truth for approval/review/audit.
  • Displaced Linear (was running IT ticketing/access through Linear, “not built for IT use cases”); also evaluated Zendesk and Freshservice (neither flexible enough); was about to sign with another vendor before choosing Serval.
  • Company has more than doubled in size since adopting Serval.
  • Roadmap: IT ticketing, onboarding/offboarding, device & SaaS provisioning, password resets, Terraform/AWS IAM role workflows.
  • Named: Derek Chamorro (Head of Security), Todd Thiel (Sr. Mgr Enterprise Security), Kate McGraw (first IT support hire), Conor Curlett.

Cribl — serval.com/customers-cribl

  • “How Cribl’s IT Team Became AI Builders, Shipping Automations in Minutes with Serval.”
  • Request volume up 30–40% while the burden of responding went down.
  • Named: PJ Barry (Director, IT Support & Engineering), Leo Guzman (Sr. Mgr, IT Engineering), Alex Pannier (Sr. IT Systems Engineer), Ana Monroy Zolano (IT Engineer).
  • Quote: “It’s like an irreplaceable employee.” — Leo Guzman.

Verified roster (2026-06-06)

🟢 Confirmed (≥2 independent evidence classes): Perplexity, Mercor, Together AI, Cribl, Verkada ^[founders’ alma mater — logo-conflict noted; still multi-class via GC 90%-resolution metric], Clay, BILT (Bilt Rewards), Vercel, Fox (Fox Corporation), Blue Diamond Growers, Pacaso (new), Abridge (new).

🟡 Single-source / logo-wall / demo-only: Writer (writer.ai — strongly Serval-attested, no independent press), Notion, General Motors (downgraded — see below), Brex, LangChain, Owner/Owner.com ^[ambiguous identity], Sequoia internal IT team (self-disclosed), Temporal (new), Doximity (new), SeatGeek (new).

⚠️ Rejected: GitLab and Navan are integration partners (Serval connects to them), not customers — their logo-wall presence was misread. An unattributed FeaturedCustomers testimonial (“Dongting Wu, Security Engineer,” no employer) and a Bill Trenchard X traction post are not customer evidence.

Key corrections vs. prior wiki state

  • Together AI displaced Linear for IT/access (previously undocumented).
  • General Motors is weaker than previously framed. GM is named only by UC Today (independent press, but echoing Serval’s framing) plus Serval’s own job postings / Apr-2026 demo, and is absent from every detailed funding-PR roster (TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, FinSMEs, Series A/B posts) with no customer-side confirmation. The “onboarding at scale” specific is demo-sourced. Treat as 🟡 borderline, not a confirmed flagship.
  • Fox > GM on evidence: Fox got a second independent outlet (Upstarts Media named “media conglomerate Fox”); GM did not. Hence Fox 🟢, GM 🟡.
  • Brex + LangChain remain demo/first-party only — no independent press surfaced (confirms the prior May-2026 triple-verify flag).
  • Homepage logo wall carries integration logos mixed with customer logos — logo presence alone is not proof of customership (GitLab/Navan caught this way).

Limitations

  • “Independence” among investor/press customer lists is soft — investors and journalists typically receive customer names from Serval, so many 🟢 entries rest on serval-official + a third party echoing Serval rather than two arm’s-length confirmations. Case-study customers (Perplexity/Mercor/Together AI/Cribl) and customer-side-confirmed ones (Pacaso, Abridge) are the strongest.
  • No per-customer metric exists for most logo-wall names; aggregate “50%+ tickets automated” is a roster-level claim, not attributable to any single non-case-study customer.
  • Homepage logo wall could not always be re-confirmed image-by-image in one session; Temporal/Doximity/SeatGeek were visually confirmed from the Framer CDN assets.

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