AI infrastructure

Overshoot

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Founded 2025Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Overshoot makes AI models run faster and cheaper on your hardware.

Serving engines like vLLM and SGLang were designed for the average workload. This results in most deployments being extremely inefficient, especially around throughput (hence cost).

We profile your workload on your hardware, then build a custom deployment image tuned to the metrics you care about, within the quality limits you set.

You only pay if we meet the performance target we agree on.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Founders & team

Zakaria El hjouji

Founder/CEO

Co-founder and CEO of Overshoot. Prior to this, Zakaria spent 7 years building pricing algorithms at Uber and writing GPU kernels at Meta AI. Won 3 prominent AI hackathons. Built and sold a software product while in grad school at MIT. He graduated top of his class at the London School of Economics. Likes to nerd out on anything inference and VLM / video understanding.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Younes El hjouji

Founder/CTO

Ex-Intel Computer Vision AI Frameworks Engineer. CTO of Overshoot. Building the platform for realtime vision powered by LLMs.

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

Founded 2025 · Source

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Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
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Maturity: Not assessed · 3 of 6 areas documented

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