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Synth
ActivePrompt and Context Optimization for Coding Agents
Fall 2024Founded 20242 peopleSan Francisco, CA, USA
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Choose a coding agent harness, model, and task dataset and optimize context and prompts to get the best performance for long-horizon tasks
Founders · 1
Josh PurtellFounder
Josh is the founder and CEO of Synth. Before Synth, Josh was employee #3 and research scientist at Basis, which uses AI agents to automate accounting tasks. Previously, he built out the ML core of a Cyber Threat Intelligence SaaS product at Halborn, a cyber security startup that acqui-hired his startup Politeia. He founded Politeia while wrapping up a Math undergrad at Yale, where he did time-series ml research for fun.
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