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Understudy Labs

An open-source toolkit to capture traces, evaluate cheaper models against benchmarks, and ship specialist routes you own. Capture traces from LLM production workflows with a single install that deploys within coding agents you already use. Hosted infrastructure is optional. Evaluate the captured traces and set a benchmark for success. Every future model switch meets or exceeds it in A/B testing. Train and fine-tune a new model on prompts and weights you always own. Start locally and scale into c

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Y Combinator
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Y Combinator

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An open-source toolkit to capture traces, evaluate cheaper models against benchmarks, and ship specialist routes you own. Capture traces from LLM production workflows with a single install that deploys within coding agents you already use. Hosted infrastructure is optional. Evaluate the captured traces and set a benchmark for success. Every future model switch meets or exceeds it in A/B testing. Train and fine-tune a new model on prompts and weights you always own. Start locally and scale into c

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A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

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match 61

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