Welcome to another weekend bonus episode of the Tech Main Ride Home Podcast.

This is another portfolio profile episode.

We're gonna talk to a couple of founders today

of an AI startup.

It's not, however,

and Ride Home AI fund portfolio company.

We're going to get into that because there's an interesting connecting story

there vis-à-vis that. By the way, Chris Messina is also joining us as well, but let's start off by talking to the founders. We have Ian Cairns.

Hey there, how's it going?

And Eric Ryan.

Hello, hello, greetings from Boulder.

Yes, today we are going to talk about freeplay, which is found at freeplay. AI. I want to always call it free play AI but free play is is the name

give me whoever wants to to lead us off here give me me the two minute elevator pitch of what Free Play does.

Yeah, awesome. Well, this is Ian. At a high level, we help product teams figure out how to build better software that makes use of

large language models.

So if you're an established software company, been building software for years, there's now these

superpowers available to you through LLMs, but it can be really challenging to figure

out how to get them to do the right thing in production and we help solve that problem.

So we build tools for prompt management and version control observability for testing and evaluation so you can both automate testing and

measure and quantify how well you're doing in production and ultimately you know the

goal is to help people build a feedback loop so that they can make their

features progressively better over time.

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