Los Angeles

Astrid
Cybernetics

We work with existing language models, adapting them for everyday tasks and designing the surrounding software so people can see and steer what happens.

What we’re building

What we are building

Astrid Cybernetics is an artificial intelligence research and product company. We build software that adapts existing language models for everyday tasks, with the aim of making them safe and reliable enough for ordinary people to use.

Language models have become unusually capable, but they are still difficult to shape around a person’s actual needs. A model can write, summarize, plan, and reason, yet using it for a real task still requires judgment about context, accuracy, and when to stop. Those decisions should live in the product, not only in a prompt.

Our work sits between a capable model and a useful tool: the constraints, interfaces, evaluations, and human judgment that turn a general system into something a person can rely on. We are beginning with everyday work—the small but consequential tasks that take time, attention, or expertise.

Upcoming research

Research notes and product work will appear here as they are ready to share.

Coming soon.

Coming soon.

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Founders

Marty Johnson

Co-founder

Marty Johnson

Marty brings growth and operations experience from high-growth, venture-backed startups. He has led growth efforts, recruited and managed distributed teams, and built the operational discipline needed to scale fast-moving companies.

Andrew Bistras

Co-founder

Andrew Bistras

Andrew studied cognitive science at UCLA. His work spans computational models of human reasoning, decision-making research, and practical machine-learning tooling.

Get in touch

Contact

If you have an everyday task that current software makes difficult, we would like to hear about it.

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