Justin Torre

Ex-Founder and engineer. I ran Helicone (YC W23), open-source LLM observability, from first commit to $1M+ ARR. Now I am building an FDE team at Mintlify as their Head of Enterprise Solutions.

Hiring a team to help us build the context layer for AI agents. more info →

Main quests

MintlifyBuilding the context layer for AI agents.HeliconeOpen-source LLM observability, YC W23. 14T+ tokens, acquired.

Active side quests

Tracer: One Line PuzzleAn iOS puzzle game. One stroke, no lifting your finger.aitrolleyproblem.comWhich model provider would you trust to govern humanity?offensive-ai-speakA Claude skill that stops AI from writing slop.

Graveyard

17 versions of this websiteOne homepage, seventeen designs, one plain winner.Scale AI Hackathon3rd place, with an AI rap battle in the demo.

News

Mar 2026Helicone joins Mintlify Jul 2023Helicone re-launch Apr 2023YC W23 launch: open-source observability for generative AI

Writing

Jul 2026Allowing your users to query ClickHouse directly using raw SQL Mar 2026What three years of watching AI in production taught us

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