Understudy Labs
YC S26San Francisco, US · Founded 2026 · 2 employees · 1 known investors
Understudy Labs offers an open-source toolkit that captures traces from LLM production workflows, benchmarks and A/B tests cheaper or open-weight models against them, and fine-tunes and deploys specialist models that users own and can host anywhere. It is aimed at developers and teams looking to migrate from proprietary LLMs to models they control.
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Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (S26)
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Luis Manriquein𝕏Founder
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Aamir PoonawallainCTO & Co-Founder