Hi! Founder here, and apologies if reposting content in other comments above is too much. I can give some context on the name, although of course ideally context from me wouldn’t be necessary if the name was easier to parse.

Our very first users were test engineers who used our tool to spin up test environments for E2E and integration tests, and we called it Kurtosis because we imagined them catching “tail” errors that were out of the expected norm for devs focused on only one component of the system. We imagined a tool that detects bugs happening in a “high Kurtosis” error environment.

We’re also big fans of the book “antifragile” by Taleb, about strategies in general for excelling in the face of volatility environments (can stretch that to kind of look like high “Kurtosis” environments)

The combination of those two things felt right when we started building - but I can see all the confusion it’s now causing here!