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Justin Torre
Builds the systems that watch AI work.
Now building the context layer for AI agents at Mintlify. Previously co-founder and CEO of Helicone (YC W23), open-source LLM observability.
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HOW IT WORKS
STEP 01
Built the observability layer
Helicone, out of YC W23. Open-source, one shared ClickHouse table, and a graph of everything the models did.
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STEP 02
Folded it into Mintlify
Helicone joined Mintlify in March 2026. Same bet from a bigger surface: agents are only as good as the context you hand them.
connor
am i tripping or is it a different app every time i see a tweet from you
am i tripping or is it a different app every time i see a tweet from you
justin
Making note of this!
Making note of this!
STEP 03
Keeps shipping anyway
Tracer, an iOS one-stroke puzzle. Drone videos. Write-ups like the ClickHouse row-level security post.
THE CATALOG