Co-Founder & CEO @clado | @zfellows | prev. @PennMandT

Joined July 2022
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Eric Mao retweeted
We’re launching @JudgmentLabs today and announcing $32M in funding. As AI agents take on more of the work that creates economic value, they generate massive amounts of production data: the clearest record of how they behave with users, software, and the real world. Judgment builds infrastructure for improving AI agents from production data.
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Chert (@Cherthq) is building the infrastructure for teams to send, receive, and automate conversations over iMessage using APIs. They’re already working with B2C startups, customer experience teams, and sales teams to reach end users through trusted and conversational messaging. Congrats on the launch, @GaryGao891219 & @ianyfong! ycombinator.com/launches/QGN…
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Eric Mao retweeted
with Mira, AI can now live on your face. capture every conversation. create the most personalized form of AI ever. order now.
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The best part about being a founder is the ability to choose who you share your life’s work with. Could not have chose better and nobody more deserving :)
Mar 14
I had my O-1 approved 👽🇺🇸 Excited to keep working with my best friends @freesolo in San Francisco! Thanks @0xSigil and everyone else who helped.
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2 weeks ago, Brett Adcock posted a public browser agent challenge; the website contained 30 steps and had to be solved in under 5 minutes. The first thing that stood out to me was that I only got to step 8 in 5 minutes, a far cry from 30 minutes. Any agent that can complete this would surely have to be ‘superhuman’. In addition, no frontier model was able to solve this, so, in some sense, any solution also needs to 'push the frontier' on this particular challenge. As it turns out, traditional post training (RL) was not the best solution to this problem instead a recursive DSPy policy pushed GPT OSS 120B from being unable to complete step 1 to finishing all 30 in 4:10 minutes (10x faster than Sonnet 4.6). Wrote a blog detailing this below.
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P.S. if your company is interested in post training internal models shoot me a DM or email me at eric@clado.ai
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Eric Mao retweeted
.@shofoai is assembling the largest index of short-form videos. They build complete pipelines that collect, segment, sanitize, and label videos from across social media to curate custom datasets for AI labs. Congrats on the launch @zixihong_, @BraidenDishman, @AlexzendorMisra, and @AndreBragaML! ycombinator.com/launches/PHk…
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Eric Mao retweeted
We did it. We built Cursor for Google Docs. Introducing TypeOS.
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2 Sep 2025
Two freshmen, no money, no plan. Just a side project to find alumni. Four months later, they went viral at Stanford, hit 40K DAUs, and got into YC. Now they’re attempting to build the internet’s most powerful people-search engine, already capable of running 10,000 LLM calls at once on Groq. This is the story of @cladoai and its mission to shake up the multi-billion dollar business of finding people online. 🧵👇
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Eric Mao retweeted
29 Aug 2025
excited to welcome our new cofounder! her name is carmel chief cutie officer ❤️ come say hi :)
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26 Aug 2025
2/ Top agents to research anything GRID brings together 100 intelligence partners, spanning agents, models, data, and tools. Our ecosystem includes leading Web2 agents designed to support virtually any type of research. @ExaAILabs: Real-time, citation-rich web search that retrieves the most relevant and credible sources. @cladoai: A people-search and profiling tool that aggregates web and social media data to generate comprehensive research on individuals. @askalphaxiv: Surfaces papers, preprints, and technical research with summaries. Our Open Deep Search framework supplements this workflow with top-tier current information gpt-oss prepares the answer based on all of the information provided above @composio: Connects AI to 100 SaaS tools, APIs, and workflows (e.g., Notion, Slack, Stripe, GitHub) so an agent take actions across apps.
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22 Aug 2025
Proudly supporting Sentient's launch with the Clado API!
18 Aug 2025
How does the GRID orchestrate intelligence? By routing, combining, and coordinating thousands of models, agents, and data streams, the GRID scales like a distributed brain. As it grows, its collective intelligence compounds, delivering toward AGI-level output. Here’s how the underlying algorithms make this possible 👇
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14 Aug 2025
sent from perplexity comet @AravSrinivas
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11 Aug 2025
We met Jefferson and Rohin when they moved to San Francisco for Jaimy and couldn’t find last-minute housing, so they crashed in our guest room. That serendipity turned into one of our highest roi decisions. It was immediately obvious to us that they are world class engineers and we couldn’t be more excited to have them on the Clado team.
11 Aug 2025
VERY excited to announce today that Jaimy is being acquired by @cladoai! @j3ofo and I will be joining full-time to help build the ground-truth platform for humans. Big thank you to our users, investors, and friends ❤️
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Eric Mao retweeted
11 Aug 2025
We pivoted. Den is now a multiplayer AI agent builder. Thread below.
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Eric Mao retweeted
31 Jul 2025
Replying to @cladoai
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28 Jul 2025
this is NOT my aux
28 Jul 2025
clado HQ on a sunday.
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Eric Mao retweeted
22 Jul 2025
My co-founders and I killed our previous startup with 40k users to bet EVERYTHING on social media. Today, we just built the best TikTok scraper the world has ever seen. - 50x faster and cheaper than the current “gold standard” - Index hundreds of millions of posts in hours - Fully unblockable deeply flexible - Vectorized & raw data for any use case But this is just the start. We hate how social media today is fragmented, closed, and built to serve platforms over the people on them. So we’re changing that by building the most powerful scrapers and pairing them with the most intelligent analysis tools to democratize the data buried inside EVERY platform. Check out the world's largest and most comprehensive semantic TikTok index for profile, trend, sentiment, market data, and everything in between at shofo.ai
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19 Jul 2025
14 Days Ago: Let's build an enterprise platform 11 Days Ago: MVP Ready pushing to beta testers 5 Days Ago: Final QA, Clado Profiles 3 Days Ago: Film Launch Video, Benchmarking 1 Day Ago: Launch to Early Users Investors Working with the Clado team is an honor of a lifetime. Watch out for our updates in the next 3 weeks.
19 Jul 2025
Introducing Clado Atlas. There are 8 billion people on Earth. Clado can pinpoint any individual person with a single text prompt. and it's live today at atlas. clado .ai
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