👋 hello world. we're here to build a revolution in regulated finance. we hope you'll join us.

@Get_Sphere and @a16z are hosting Ground Truth: a half-day event for senior engineers building at the intersection of AI and regulation. Regulated spaces are the last layer of AI infrastructure yet to be unlocked. For good reason: they run on unstructured, contradictory and constantly moving rules. They exist as a reasoning problem, and reasoning is what AI made buildable. We're bringing together the people shipping in the space for lived insights on two technical topics: 1/ Reliability guarantees in production AI + human-in-the-loop design 2/ Compliance-as-a-moat With the engineers and technical leaders: - @Harvey: Abhishek Verma - @valon: Tamjid Rahman - @raindrop_ai: Zub - @Luminai: Vamsi Chitters - @Forus: Anirudh Jain - @Databricks: Conor B. Murphy + others to be announced Spots limited, RSVP via the link: groundtruth.getsphere.com/

We use AI aggressively and have also turned off AI access for new (non-engineering) hires. Here’s why: 👇

and it's never been a better time to join :). open roles at valon.ai

We're hiring in NYC & SF :) open roles in valon.ai

1/ Two weeks ago, we turned off AI access for every new non-engineering hire at @valon. That is a strange decision for a company at the frontier of AI adoption. It is also one of the biggest bets we can make on our people. valon.ai/blog/we-turned-off-…

1/ Six months ago our design team pointed Claude at our Figma kit. It choked: 200,000 layers, inconsistent tokens. It gave up, screenshotted the kit, and guessed. That failure taught us what designing with AI actually is. valon.ai/blog/we-re-all-desi…

Asked what he would build if he started over, Patrick Collison did not name an AI lab. He said he'd go for "the janky 1990s software" running whole industries nobody in the Valley will touch. 3 examples of this: 1) Vertical SaaS

“Deployed engineer” shouldn’t be a buzzword. At Valon, our teams are actively deploying AI-native software across some of the most complex and regulated environments in finance. Want to learn more about the work and meet the team? Join us for a round of golf in NYC on the 13th. Register here: luma.com/mozklm4q

pushing to prod on a Friday but at least we have unlimited Claude Code + Codex tokens and a coffee bar @valon

welcome to the world of mortgage servicing 🧡

Welcome to the world of mortgage servicing! Asked DeepSeek V4 Pro to make a mortgage servicing themed romhack of Pokemon Red

7 years ago @BrianJMcGrath and @wangandrewd wrote the business plan for @valon on the back of a napkin. Now, he's all in as Executive Chairman. Here's why: valon.ai/blog/Brian-McGrath-…

we're using this in production. examples: - eng team loves a specific PM's PRDs? extract their taste, generate PRDs that read the same - AI gets the facts right but the output reads like slop. this fixes slop by anchoring to what "good" actually looks like - tested it across PRDs, process docs, and other domains. adds quality back in automatically the key insight: with AI its easy to get correct. the hard part is getting good. this is a system for bottling "good."

Who let the dogs out? Who, who, who, who, who?

shipping PRs and hitting macros we're claude-maxxing and protein-maxxing >69,000 grams of protein consumed at our NYC office this year so far

We built a pipeline that mines our PR review threads and turns the recurring patterns into automated review rules Convention nits from human reviewers dropped ~40% and shifted to design questions. Write-up here: valon.ai/blog/your-best-engi… Skill here: github.com/valon-technologie…

+188 to what @kylebrussell said. (also the number of open roles we have rn). check them out here: valon.ai