Join us
Find the signal with us.
A small, senior team of people who trained and evaluated frontier models, now turning them into systems that work in the real world.
Who we are
Born at the frontier. Built for the real world.
We enable ambitious companies to realize the full potential of AI.
We started on the inside, training and evaluating the frontier models themselves. We watched them go from promising to genuinely world-class: intelligence that can reason, write, analyze and build at the level of the best people in any field.
Once that intelligence existed, the harder problem was putting it to work. So we crossed to the applied side, to bring world-class intelligence into the businesses that can do the most with it. We know how these models think, and where they break, because we helped build them.
What we're building
The firm we wished existed when we were on the other side.
Production AI that holds up
Custom systems on frontier models, running on real data for real users, with the evaluations to prove it.
Evaluation as a discipline
Benchmarks, regression suites and red-teaming written for each client's workload, not borrowed from a leaderboard.
Teams that outgrow us
Training and playbooks that leave clients able to run and extend what we build, without us.
A different kind of consultancy
Senior, small and hands-on. Enterprise-grade work without the enterprise-sized firm.
How we work
What it's like on the inside.
Signal over noise
We cut through hype with evidence: benchmarks, tests and results, not opinions.
Build, don't pitch
Everyone here writes, ships or teaches. There is no layer that only sells.
Learn at the frontier
The models change every month. You'll get the time and access to stay ahead of them, and share what you find.
Outcomes, not pilots
We measure ourselves by what's running in production a year later.
How we hire
Four conversations. No trick questions.
- 01
Intro call
Thirty minutes with a partner about what you've built and what you want to build next.
- 02
Working session
A real problem, worked through together. No whiteboard puzzles, no take-home marathons.
- 03
Meet the team
Time with the people you'd work alongside, to ask them anything.
- 04
Offer
A clear offer, fast. Most processes finish within three weeks.
Teams we're hiring for
Find your place on the team.
Engineering
Build and ship production systems on frontier models.
Applied research
Evaluate, benchmark and push models to their limits.
Delivery
Lead engagements from first call to live system.
Enablement
Design and teach programs that make clients AI-native.
Go to market
Build relationships with the leaders who need AI to work, and shape the engagements we take on.
Don't see your role? Tell us what you'd build.
We hire for judgment first. If you've shipped AI that real people depend on, we want to hear from you.
Join us
Find the signal with us.
A small, senior team of people who trained and evaluated frontier models, now turning them into systems that work in the real world.
Who we are
Born at the frontier. Built for the real world.
We enable ambitious companies to realize the full potential of AI.
We started on the inside, training and evaluating the frontier models themselves. We watched them go from promising to genuinely world-class: intelligence that can reason, write, analyze and build at the level of the best people in any field.
Once that intelligence existed, the harder problem was putting it to work. So we crossed to the applied side, to bring world-class intelligence into the businesses that can do the most with it. We know how these models think, and where they break, because we helped build them.
What we're building
The firm we wished existed when we were on the other side.
Systems
Production AI that holds up
Custom systems on frontier models, running on real data for real users, with the evaluations to prove it.
Craft
Evaluation as a discipline
Benchmarks, regression suites and red-teaming written for each client's workload, not borrowed from a leaderboard.
Capability
Teams that outgrow us
Training and playbooks that leave clients able to run and extend what we build, without us.
The firm
A different kind of consultancy
Senior, small and hands-on. Enterprise-grade work without the enterprise-sized firm.
How we work
What it's like on the inside.
Signal over noise
We cut through hype with evidence: benchmarks, tests and results, not opinions.
Build, don't pitch
Everyone here writes, ships or teaches. There is no layer that only sells.
Learn at the frontier
The models change every month. You'll get the time and access to stay ahead of them, and share what you find.
Outcomes, not pilots
We measure ourselves by what's running in production a year later.
How we hire
Four conversations. No trick questions.
01
Intro call
Thirty minutes with a partner about what you've built and what you want to build next.
02
Working session
A real problem, worked through together. No whiteboard puzzles, no take-home marathons.
03
Meet the team
Time with the people you'd work alongside, to ask them anything.
04
Offer
A clear offer, fast. Most processes finish within three weeks.
About us
The people you'd work with.
Principals
Executive Board
Mike Gamson
Co-founder of Permanent Capital Ventures, after twenty years and more as an operator and investor — most recently CEO of Evozyne, an AI biotechnology company creating novel proteins for therapeutics and sustainability.
David Cohen
A senior go-to-market executive with three decades building and scaling revenue organizations at high-growth technology companies — roughly fifteen years at LinkedIn in senior GTM and sales leadership, most recently Chief Sales Officer at HubSpot.
Peter Kim
Thirty years in B2B software with a focus on GTM leadership and operations — Chief Sales Officer at Relativity, eight years leading sales through LinkedIn’s hypergrowth, now lead GTM Operating Partner at WestBridge Capital.
Jack Lynch
Chief Strategy Officer at Ridgeline and its second employee, where he has built and scaled the business across strategy, product, go-to-market, partnerships and talent — after leadership roles at IBM Watson in product strategy and enterprise AI.
Backed by
Avanta Labs was incubated by Permanent Capital Ventures and is backed by Next Play Ventures, along with other leading angels.
Teams we're hiring for
Find your place on the team.
Engineering
Build and ship production systems on frontier models.
SEE ROLES ↗Applied research
Evaluate, benchmark and push models to their limits.
SEE ROLES ↗Delivery
Lead engagements from first call to live system.
SEE ROLES ↗Enablement
Design and teach programs that make clients AI-native.
SEE ROLES ↗Go to market
Build relationships with the leaders who need AI to work, and shape the engagements we take on.
SEE ROLES ↗
Don't see your role? Tell us what you'd build.
We hire for judgment first. If you've shipped AI that real people depend on, we want to hear from you.