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Easily fine tune and deploy specialized models

We help teams fine tune and deploy models specialized for their domain and use cases. Generalist, proprietary models like gpt-5 and claude are impressive and have their place but for your most important tasks you need your AI agents to be powered by models that are specialists. Models you own, trained on your data, that can continuously improve for your use cases.
Active Founders
Kurt Sharma
Kurt Sharma
Founder
Co-Founder & CTO at Burt Studied EECS at UC Berkeley. Previously @ Replo (YC S21) building high-throughput data pipelines and sandboxed code manipulation systems. Now helping teams build specialized models.
Bobby Zhong
Bobby Zhong
Founder
Co-Founder & CEO at Burt Studied CS at UCI before dropping to join Pirros (YC W23) as their 2nd engineer. Then joined Replo (YC S21) to build coding agents and wrangle LLMs. Now helping teams build specialized models
Burt
Batch:Winter 2026
Team Size:2
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
Primary Partner:Ankit Gupta