Techstrong.ai · Jul 2024
Coverage of Automorphic's product now referred to as Conduct, emphasizing fast creation of personalized fine-tuned models, OpenAI API compatibility, and adapter workflows.
Infuse knowledge into language models with just 10 samples
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
Automorphic is a YC S23 San Francisco AI infrastructure startup building Conduit, an LLM-improvement platform for fine-tuning, adapter stacking, RLHF, and continuous model updates. Public sources vary on funding totals and headcount, and product branding appears as Conduit in the docs and Conduct in some press coverage.
Primary product
Conduit (also covered as Conduct)
Founded
2023
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10 employees
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
AI infrastructure / LLM tooling
Offices
San Francisco, California, United States
Business model
SaaS
freemium
developer platform
Funding
Stage
seed
Total raised
$600K
Latest round
Grant · Mar 2024
Latest amount
$100K
Mar 2024 · Thiel Fellowship
Oct 2023 · Y Combinator
Jan 2023
People & investors
Leadership
Co-Founder and CEO
Co-Founder
Co-Founder and CTO
President
Work & culture
Research-driven, fast-moving, small-team builder culture focused on making model improvement accessible and shortening feedback loops.
Compensation
No public salary bands found; YC jobs page currently shows no open roles.
Product & market
Pricing
Freemium / paid subscription; first three models are free, and third-party coverage reports paid plans starting at $4/month.
Differentiators
- —Infuses knowledge into language models with very few samples
- —Supports continuous improvement workflows instead of one-off fine-tuning
- —OpenAI API compatibility lowers integration friction
- —Users can own model weights and run inference in their own cloud
- —Supports RLHF and adapter-based iteration
Technology
OpenAI API-compatible endpoint
fine-tuning
RLHF
adapter stacking and combination
model hub / publication workflow
CSV/JSONL/TXT data ingestion
GitHub open-source repos: aegis, trex, bitsandbytes, llama_index, FastCkpt, flash-attention
Customers
ML engineers
developers building custom LLMs
companies implementing custom LLMs
teams replacing OpenAI API with custom endpoints
Competitors
Fireworks
Goodfire
Bria
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
approximately $0.68M-$1.4M ARR (public estimates vary)
Estimated monthly visits
214
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Latest news
MarkTechPost · Jul 2024
Explains Automorphic's Conduit product, including fine-tuning, human-in-the-loop iteration, adapter mixing, OpenAI API compatibility, and the promise of quick model improvement.
Y Combinator · Sep 2023
YC launch page introducing Automorphic, its mission, founders, San Francisco location, Summer 2023 batch, and the product pitch around rapidly improving custom fine-tuned models.
Business Insider · Sep 2023
Founder interview describing how Automorphic started, the founders' Georgia Tech origin story, and the goal of helping developers iterate on custom language models faster.
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