{"id":86,"date":"2022-01-03T21:47:17","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T05:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-cometml.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-04-01T15:58:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T15:58:25","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.comet.com\/site\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Our mission is to empower developers and teams to achieve business value with AI<\/mark>.<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Comet builds the infrastructure teams use to develop, evaluate, and improve modern AI applications. With over seven years of experience building AI tools, we help organizations turn AI prototypes into reliable production systems. Our open-source platform, Opik, provides LLM observability and LLM evaluation for generative AI applications and agentic systems. Whether you’re building chatbots, RAG pipelines, or autonomous agents, Opik integrates with your existing stack to provide the visibility and feedback loops needed to ship dependable AI applications faster.

Start building with us today!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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AI: The Century\u2019s Biggest Opportunity<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

AI is rapidly transforming how organizations build products, operate systems, and create value. Teams building modern AI applications must constantly test changes, understand system behavior, and measure results to improve outcomes. Reducing friction in these workflows allows developers to move faster, collaborate more effectively, and deliver real impact with AI.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“The companies getting the most value from AI are the ones that treat it like an engineering discipline, with systems in place to measure, evaluate, and continuously improve how their models behave.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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CEO and Co-founder, Comet<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The New AI Development Stack<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As AI applications become more complex, teams need better ways to observe system behavior, evaluate outputs, and improve performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Comet brings these workflows together. With Opik, teams gain a unified platform for tracing AI applications, running evaluations, and optimizing agent performance across development and production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By consolidating these capabilities into one platform, developers can iterate faster, collaborate more effectively, and turn promising AI prototypes into reliable production systems.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Trusted By Over 150k Developers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Thousands of developers and AI teams use Opik to evaluate, observe, and improve modern AI applications. As an open-source platform, Opik has quickly become one of the fastest-growing tools for LLM evaluation and observability, with a rapidly expanding community of contributors and users across startups, research labs, and global enterprises.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Headquartered in New York City, with Offices in Tel Aviv<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Comet has a global, remote-first workforce. We are committed to supporting a diverse working environment, and we support each team member as a unique and valuable contributor to the advancement of AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Leadership Team<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Comet\u2019s leadership team combines decades of experience at innovative organizations, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Grafana Labs, GitLab, Google, Teradata, Oracle, VMware, Wix, and Yale University.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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