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Braintrust www.braintrust.dev
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Summary AI observability and evaluation platform for agents and LLM applications.
Description Braintrust appears to be a productized AI observability and evaluation platform focused on tracing production agents, running evals, discovering failure patterns, and improving AI quality over time. Public materials emphasize observability, evaluations, datasets, prompts, human review, and enterprise deployment options such as SaaS, BYOC, and self-hosting. Evidence suggests the company is a software platform rather than a services firm, with limited public indication of custom consulting as the core offer.
Positioning Braintrust positions itself as the active observability platform for agents, combining trace observability, evals, discovery, and deployment support for production AI systems. It claims to help teams ship quality agents at scale and emphasizes monitoring, evaluation, and regression prevention.
HQ location San Francisco, California
Founded 2023
Employee range 51-200
Funding stage Series A
Company type Private
Pricing model custom quote, subscription, usage based
Last updated Jun 21, 2026
Revenue estimate Unknown
Valuation estimate Unknown
Investments Braintrust announced a $36M Series A on 2024-10-08, bringing total funding to $45M at that time; the round was led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from several existing and strategic investors. A later 2026 blog post indicates a Series B led by ICONIQ and says Braintrust raised $80M in that round, but the exact post-date and total funding at that point should be treated as potentially stale until independently verified.
Target customers AI-native teams, product and engineering teams building and operating agents, and enterprise teams running production AI systems.
Key competitors LangSmith, Arize/Phoenix, Weights & Biases, Humanloop, Galileo, WhyLabs, TruLens, and adjacent AI observability/evaluation or governance tools.
Known customers Notion, Stripe, Vercel, Airtable, Instacart, Zapier, Coda, The Browser Company, and Graphite were mentioned in Braintrust’s own Series A blog post and homepage case-study references.
Segments AI Workflows, AI Agents, AI Developer Tools, Knowledge & RAG, AI Quality & Observability, AI Governance & Risk, Analytics & BI
Industries Customer Support / CX, Sales / GTM, General Purpose