Now at Mintlify. Helicone joined July 2026.
Justin Torre builds the tools that watch AI think.
Building the context layer for AI agents at Mintlify. Before that, co-founder and CEO of Helicone (YC W23), open-source LLM observability trusted with trillions of tokens.
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Helicone joins Mintlify
Helicone is now part of Mintlify. Same mission, bigger surface: the context layer for AI agents.
Open linkTracer: One Line Puzzle
An iOS one-stroke puzzle game I built for fun. 60+ levels, no ads, no tracking.
Open linkQuerying ClickHouse directly with raw SQL
How we let users run raw SQL against ClickHouse safely, with row-level security and query parameters.
Read postHelicone Re-launch
Rebuilt the product around what users actually needed. Open-source observability for every LLM call.
Open linkY Combinator W23
Launched Helicone through YC: open-source observability platform for generative AI.
Open linkScale AI Hackathon, 3rd place
Placed third with an AI rap battle between Tom Brady and Gisele. The SF Standard covered it.
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