Zach M.

YC-Backed Founder | AI/ML Startup Expert | Build with LLMs

Studied at University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Works at D-Star

Available Monday at 5:00 PM UTC

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Available Monday at 5:00 PM UTC

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Zach's Coaching Offerings

Custom hourly · $200/hr

Get help with Model Selection and Evaluation, AI Fundamentals, and .

Zach’s Artificial Intelligence Qualifications

Experience level: Executive

I was the founder and CEO of a YC-backed AI infrastructure startup, Superpowered AI (YC S22). Then I built a popular open-source retrieval engine, dsRAG (1.5k stars), that achieves state-of-the-art performance on challenging RAG benchmarks like FinanceBench. Now I consult with startups to help them build high-performance applications with LLMs.

Zach can help with:

Model Selection and Evaluation

AI Fundamentals

Prompt Engineering

Multi-Agent Systems

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About Zach

I've been working in AI/ML my entire career, first as a quant hedge fund manager and then as a startup founder. I was the founder and CEO of Superpowered AI, which took part in the S22 batch of Y Combinator. We pioneered some cutting-edge RAG techniques and served 10,000+ users. Now I spend most of my time helping startups build state-of-the-art applications with LLMs.