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Prompt 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

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Josh Purtell
Josh PurtellFounder
Yale

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.

Launch

Launched on Y Combinator · Nov 2024
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Making developing and maintaining a SOTA AI system simpler.

Synth logs agent activity, identifies failure modes, and fine-tunes base models used by the agent to improve performance. It provides a three-step workflow—summarize logs, flag issues, and address them with fine-tuned models and suggested code changes—targeting teams building multi-step AI agent systems.

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