About Cleanlab – We make AI safe to trust.

AI promises unprecedented impact, but only if every response is safe, accurate, and compliant. At Cleanlab, we’re a team of engineers, researchers, and builders focused on making Generative AI as reliable as traditional software. We help organizations confidently put AI into production and earn trust through every interaction.

Our Mission

Enable engineers to deploy safe AI agents in days.

Cleanlab solves the biggest challenge in AI agents: reliability. Our platform equips your team with the tools to make agents production-ready, detecting low-quality outputs, identifying root causes, improving response quality, and applying guardrails to ensure safe, accurate, and compliant performance at scale.

Our Values

At the heart of our mission is a commitment to building not just great technology, but a great team. These values guide how we think, how we act, and how we work.

How we think:

  • Care Deeply
    Care about your work, team, customers, and yourself.

  • Be Curious
    Ask good questions to unveil a simpler or faster approach.

  • Pursue Humility
    Stay open to better ideas. Humility unlocks progress.

  • Seek Truth
    Build a culture where truth matters more than ego.

How we act:

  • Be Authentic
    Be honest about our work and the value that we deliver.

  • Take Responsibility
    Be accountable to ourselves, our customers, and the world.

  • Have Substance
    Speak with purpose, Provide evidence, clarity, and insight.

  • Lead with Empathy
    Step into our customers’ shoes for better products. Teamwork.

How we work:

  • Customer-Driven Focus
    We build based on real customer needs, not on AI hype or trends.

  • Deliver Real Value
    The only metric that matters is: did we solve your problem?

  • Show Character
    When others rely on you, show up for them with care and strength.

  • Prioritize Relentlessly
    Focus on what matters to deliver unmatched quality, ROI, and speed.

Our Founders

Led by experts in AI.

Our founders have pioneered research in the field, earning over 20,000 citations and the IJCAI-JAIR 5-Year Test-of-Time Award. Prior to Cleanlab, our team helped enhance the reliability of Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, Oculus VR, and AWS. Backed by top investors—including Menlo, TQ, Bain, Databricks, Samsung, and the founders of GitHub, Okta, Mosaic, and Yahoo—Cleanlab is defining the future of AI reliability.

Curtis Northcutt
CEO
MIT | PhD in CS (ML) - 1,500+ citations
MIT thesis award. Invented confident learning, the foundation of Cleanlab.

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Jonas Mueller
Chief Scientist
MIT | PhD in CS (ML) - 4,000+ citations
Built Amazon Web Services' AutoML service used by thousands of companies.

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Anish Athalye
CTO
MIT | PhD in CS (Systems) - 7,000+ citations
30,000+ stars across GitHub projects. ICML best paper winner.

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Recognized industry leaders in AI

Cleanlab is recognized as a leading solution for reliable AI.

2024AI 50Listed among the 50 most innovative firms driving advancements and commercial applications in AI.](https://www.forbes.com/sites/konstantinebuhler/2024/04/11/how-ai-50-companies-are-powering-a-new-tech-economy/) 2024AI 100Listed among the most promising private companies applying AI across industries and around the world.](https://www.cbinsights.com/learn/ai-100-2024) 2024Top AI ToolsNamed in the Top AI Hallucination Detection Tools by Analytics India Magazine.](https://web.archive.org/web/20241103180526/https:%2F%2Fanalyticsindiamag.com/topics/top-ai-hallucination-detection-tools/) 2024Top AI ResearchThe IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Prize is a top honor in AI, awarded for impactful, significant research.](https://jair.org/index.php/jair/News)

Interested in being part of the Cleanlab team?
We’re always looking for the best and brightest to join our team. Applications are regularly posted and we encourage you to apply and join our growing team of experts.