{"id":82824,"title":"🌱 Sepal AI - Confidently deploy your AI models","tagline":"We build benchmarks, evals, \u0026 training datasets for enterprises.","body":"# **Tl;dr:** Sepal provides frontier data and tooling for advancing responsible AI development.\n\n# **__________________________________________________________**\n\n[Sepal AI](https://www.sepalai.com/?ref=launch_yc) is on a mission to advance human knowledge and capabilities with the responsible development of artificial intelligence.\n\n# **🧐 Responsibly advance human knowledge with AI? What does that mean?**\n\nWe believe in a world where AI advances scientific research and empowers economic growth. \n\nTo achieve that future, AI product \u0026 model builders need:\n\n1. **Golden Datasets and Frontier Benchmarking:** To iteratively measure model performance on specific use cases.\n2. **Training Data:** To improve model capabilities using fine-tuning and RLHF.\n3. **Safety / Red-teaming:** To measure and forecast the safety of LLMs before putting them out in the wild.\n\n# **__________________________________________________________**\n\n# ⚠️ **Okay, well why does it matter?**\n\nFrontier data for AI development is vital for safe deployment \u0026 scaling. However, developing this data is difficult. \n\nMost frontier data requires domain knowledge that can be hard to source and curate (e.g., finance, medical, physics, biology, etc.). Publicly available benchmarks (e.g., MMLU, GPQA, MATH, etc.) are contaminated and too general to be useful to actual product \u0026 model builders.\n\n# **__________________________________________________________**\n\n# **🌱 How do we do this?**\n\nWe’ve built Sepal AI - the data development platform that enables you to curate useful datasets.\n\n**The Platform:** We bring data generation tooling, human experts, synthetic data augmentation, and rigorous quality control into one platform so you can manage the production of high-quality datasets.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=82824\u0026key=user_uploads/860488/81dd4889-9694-4c67-8505-389edf7c3361)\n\n**Our Expert Network:** We’ve built a network of 20k+ experts across STEM and professional services (think academic PhDs, business analysts, medical professionals, marketing and finance consultants) to support campaign design \u0026 data development. \n\nSample engagements we’ve run:\n\n* **🧬 Cell and Molecular Biology Benchmark:** An original benchmark to evaluate complex reasoning across models. Produced by a team of PhD biologists from top institutions in the US.\n* **💼 Finance Q\u0026A + SQL Eval:** A Golden Dataset to test the ability of an AI agent to query a database and produce human-expert-level answers to complex finance questions.\n* **📏 Uplift Trials \u0026 Human Baselining:** End to end support for conducting secure in-person evaluations on model performance. \n* _…. \\[insert your custom use case next?\\]_\n\n# **__________________________________________________________**\n\n# **🙏 Asks:**\n\n1. If you are building an AI application and need to measure or improve your model, or\n2. If you are a researcher at an AI lab building or evaluating models for new capabilities / risk areas, or\n3. If you’re passionate about the development of AI, AI safety, or evals in general…\n\nLet’s chat — please check us out at [www.sepalai.com](http://www.sepalai.com) \n\n# **__________________________________________________________**\n\n# **👪 Our team:**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=82824\u0026key=user_uploads/860488/a1187807-573a-4248-9181-6378d6e2b042)\n\nMeet [Kat](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathleenhu/) (on the left), [Robi](https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-lin1/) (in the middle), [Fedor](https://www.linkedin.com/in/f3d0r/) (on the right)!\n\nRobi and Kat previously built the technical LLM training business for Turing. Kat on the go-to-market \u0026 operations side. Robi on the product \u0026 fulfillment side. Fedor is a long-time close friend - he was an early engineer at Vercel \u0026 Newfront where he built out foundational infrastructure.\n\nSay hi: [founders@sepalai.com](mailto:founders@sepalai.com).","slug":"LXs-sepal-ai-confidently-deploy-your-ai-models","created_at":"2024-08-07T18:46:33.791Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T01:48:42.414Z","total_vote_count":51,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LXs-sepal-ai-confidently-deploy-your-ai-models","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=82824\u0026key=user_uploads/860488/a1187807-573a-4248-9181-6378d6e2b042","company":{"id":29825,"name":"Sepal AI","slug":"sepal-ai","url":"https://www.sepalai.com","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/78c48b77fe0ad236d148f827dd2ba0b86450afd3.png","batch":"Summer 2024","industry":"B2B","tags":["AIOps","Reinforcement Learning","Data Labeling","AI"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/29825"}}