Tara AI (YC W15) — Meet tara AI, your new engineering efficiency co-pilot
Tara AI helps engineering leaders measure and improve engineering efficiency, with fine-tuned, secure LLMs trained on source control and project data. Our customers include MongoDB, Clearbit and Prometric.
Tara AI is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2015 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Meet Tara AI, your new engineering efficiency co-pilot. The founders listed are Iba Masood (Founder/CEO), Syed Ahmed (Founder/CTO) (Y Combinator directory entry, December 29, 2014).
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Tara AI helps engineering leaders measure and improve engineering efficiency, with fine-tuned, secure LLMs trained on source control and project data.
Our customers include MongoDB, Clearbit and Prometric. Our platform generates all-in-one views on cycle times, benchmarks, investments and overall size and velocity of engineering activity. We're helping customers achieve 30% reduction in time to customer deployment.
Iba Masood
Founder/CEO
Syed Ahmed
Founder/CTO
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