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Halluminate

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Founded 2024Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

AI today is capable of solving the world’s most complex math problems, writing the majority of our software, and soon automating research itself. The world of verifiable domains is being mastered at a stunning rate.

However, these same systems still struggle to build realistic financial models, deliver client ready powerpoint presentations, or grasp the nuance of well-balanced strategic analyses. Generally intelligent AI coworkers across finance, consulting, insurance, operations, and other forms of knowledge work will transform our economy. But they haven’t arrived yet.

The good news is that we have the recipe to build them.

Halluminate is a data research lab building the benchmarks and RL environments needed to push the frontier of AI in knowledge work. Our first area of focus is financial services, but we are rapidly expanding to adjacent verticals.

In the last 10 months we have:

- Grown from $0 to a mid-eight-figure revenue run rate while remaining strongly profitable

- Built and scaled RL environments with four of the five leading closed-source U.S. AI labs

- Released Westworld Due Diligence, a leading frontier benchmark for realistic financial work

- Built an interdisciplinary team of former founders, researchers, particle physicists, experts, and engineers from Meta, Scale AI, Capital One Labs, McKinsey, Goldman Sachs and more

If that excites you, join us!

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Founders & team

Jerry Wu

Founder/CEO

Jerry Wu is co-founder and CEO of Halluminate. Previously, he led product and research at Capital One Labs, launching one of the first AI agents in financial services and co-authoring three patents. Jerry studied Computer Science and Economics at Cornell, where he researched model quantization methods and served as VP of the Cornell Consulting Group. He was also class speaker at Acton-Boxborough High School.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Wyatt Marshall

Founder/CTO

2x early startup data/sw eng Building a platform for environments, evals, and benchmarks to train and test computer agents AMA about LLM/agent benchmarking and evals! https://halluminate.ai/

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
5team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

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Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
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