# Ece Kayan

> Ece Kayan is co-founder and CTO. withHuman on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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- Updated: 2026-10-28

Co-founder and CTO.

Ece Kayan is co-founder and CTO of withHuman, the approval layer for AI agents run by Metoro Inc. She spent four years at Amazon working on the reliability of Prime Video, then co-founded Metoro, which builds an AI SRE agent for production systems.

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ece-kayan/

## What Ece builds

- [withHuman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/withhuman.md), graded D, 52.1/100, in Human approval & handoff. withHuman is a hosted approval service for AI agents from Metoro Inc. It holds an agent's tool calls for a person to approve or deny through the Agent Approval Protocol API, coding-agent hooks, an MCP gateway and an MCP server. Co-founder and CTO, researched 2026-10-28.

## Works with

- [Chris Battarbee](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/chris-battarbee/), Co-founder and CEO

## Backed by

- [Y Combinator](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/y-combinator/)

## Questions

### Who is Ece Kayan?

Ece Kayan is co-founder and CTO of withHuman, the approval layer for AI agents run by Metoro Inc. She spent four years at Amazon working on the reliability of Prime Video, then co-founded Metoro, which builds an AI SRE agent for production systems.

### What does Metoro Inc make?

Anchor Terminal lists withHuman from Metoro Inc. withHuman is a hosted approval service for AI agents from Metoro Inc. It holds an agent's tool calls for a person to approve or deny through the Agent Approval Protocol API, coding-agent hooks, an MCP gateway and an MCP server.

### Who has invested in Metoro Inc?

The sources our research read name Y Combinator.

### How are Ece's tools graded?

withHuman is graded D, 52.1 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/metoro
- https://www.ycombinator.com/founders/1239892-chris-battarbee
- https://chrisbattarbee.com/about
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisbattarbee
- https://x.com/chrisjbattarbee
- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/withhuman
- https://withhuman.ai/
- https://withhuman.ai
- https://x.com/withHumanAI
- https://withhuman.ai/support

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