GitLab
Nasdaq-listed, all-remote company selling the GitLab DevSecOps platform for building and shipping software.
Four months after chief executive Bill Staples reorganised GitLab around AI agents in his 11 May 2026 'Act 2' memo, the company reported quarterly revenue up 21% to $286.3m on 1 September.
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GitLab sells one DevSecOps platform that combines source control, CI/CD pipelines and security scanning, and runs as an all-remote company that trades on Nasdaq under the ticker GTLB. Dmitriy Zaporozhets and Sid Sijbrandij founded it in 2011, and it listed in October 2021.
In the second quarter of fiscal 2027, to 31 July 2026, GitLab booked $286.3m of revenue, 21% more than a year earlier, and Staples cited record gross bookings. The quarter introduced GitLab Flex, which places platform seats, GitLab Credits and newly eligible features under a single annual commitment that customers can reshape month by month. GitLab also added a Secrets Manager and opened the Orbit context graph for AI agents in public beta, and guided full-year revenue of $1.129bn to $1.133bn.
GitLab's own code has also drawn state hackers. When ten allied agencies named Integrity Technology Group on 8 October 2026, a GitLab vulnerability was among the exploited flaws already on CISA's catalogue.
GitLab redraws engineering for software agents
Bill Staples's 'Act 2' plan of 11 May 2026 cut GitLab's country footprint by up to 30%, removed up to three management layers in some functions and broke research and development into roughly 60 small autonomous Teams. His case was that AI agents will plan, write, review, deploy and repair code, so GitLab's own engineering had to be built for that.
GitLab went further than most peers by changing team architecture, not only headcount. By 15 May it was one of four large US employers, with Oracle, Microsoft and PayPal, to restructure around AI within two months without any WARN Act enforcement action against them. Staples reported net ARR growth above 40% on 1 September, the first quarterly results after the memo.
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Written with AI from Lowdown's published reporting. Not individually reviewed by an editor. Updated 12 October 2026. Editorial standards.