About CleanlabWe make AI safe to trust.

AI promises unprecedented impact, but only if every response is safe, accurate, and compliant. At Cleanlab, we’re a team of engineers, researchers, and builders focused on making Generative AI as reliable as traditional software. We help organizations confidently put AI into production and earn trust through every interaction.

Diagram of Cleanlab’s AI data quality platform

Our Mission

Enable engineers to deploy safe AI agents in days.

Cleanlab solves the biggest challenge in AI agents: reliability. Our platform equips your team with the tools to make agents production-ready, detecting low-quality outputs, identifying root causes, improving response quality, and applying guardrails to ensure safe, accurate, and compliant performance at scale.

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Our Values

At the heart of our mission is a commitment to building not just great technology, but a great team. These values guide how we think, how we act, and how we work.

How we think:

Care Deeply

Care about your work, team, customers, and yourself.

Be Curious

Ask good questions to unveil a simpler or faster approach.

Pursue Humility

Stay open to better ideas. Humility unlocks progress.

Seek Truth

Build a culture where truth matters more than ego.

How we act:

Be Authentic

Be honest about our work and the value that we deliver.

Take Responsibility

Be accountable to ourselves, our customers, and the world.

Have Substance

Speak with purpose, Provide evidence, clarity, and insight.

Lead with Empathy

Step into our customers’ shoes for better products. Teamwork.

How we work:

Customer-Driven Focus

We build based on real customer needs, not on AI hype or trends.

Deliver Real Value

The only metric that matters is: did we solve your problem?

Show Character

When others rely on you, show up for them with care and strength.

Prioritize Relentlessly

Focus on what matters to deliver unmatched quality, ROI, and speed.

Our Founders

Led by experts in AI.

Our founders have pioneered research in the field, earning over 20,000 citations and the IJCAI-JAIR 5-Year Test-of-Time Award. Prior to Cleanlab, our team helped enhance the reliability of Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, Oculus VR, and AWS. Backed by top investors—including Menlo, TQ, Bain, Databricks, Samsung, and the founders of GitHub, Okta, Mosaic, and Yahoo—Cleanlab is defining the future of AI reliability.

Curtis Northcutt

Curtis Northcutt

CEO
MIT | PhD in CS (ML) - 1,500+ citations

MIT thesis award. Invented confident learning, the foundation of Cleanlab. 

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Jonas Mueller

Jonas Mueller

Chief Scientist
MIT | PhD in CS (ML) - 4,000+ citations

Built Amazon Web Services' AutoML service used by thousands of companies.

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Anish Athalye

Anish Athalye

CTO
MIT | PhD in CS (Systems) - 7,000+ citations

30,000+ stars across GitHub projects. ICML best paper winner.

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Investors

Menlo Ventures
Bain Capital
TQ Ventures
Databricks
Samsung Venture Investment
Interested in being part of the Cleanlab team?
We’re always looking for the best and brightest to join our team. Applications are regularly posted and we encourage you to apply and join our growing team of experts.
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