Vellum
Vellum, formerly known as Vocify, is a remote B2B company specializing in engineering, product, and design tools for building AI applications. It offers a comprehensive toolkit for prompt engineering, document retrieval, and deployment, ensuring SOC2 Type II and HIPAA compliance.
Services
Vellum offers a robust toolkit for developing production-grade AI applications. Key services include prompt engineering, document retrieval, deployments, workflows, and test suites. The platform supports the use of Microsoft Azure hosted OpenAI models and allows users to evaluate prompts and models. It facilitates integration with agents using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and APIs, enabling deployment and continuous improvement of AI models. Furthermore, the company supports collaboration between product and engineering teams, allowing non-ML engineers to build, deploy, and manage AI models without prior expertise in AI.
Compliance and Security
Vellum ensures best-in-class security, privacy, and scalability through SOC2 Type II and HIPAA compliance. Its architecture is highly scalable and offers configurable data retention and access, supported by AI experts. The platform's security features make it suitable for organizations with stringent compliance requirements, providing confidence in deploying Large Language Model (LLM)-powered features to production.
Product Features
Vellum's platform includes a variety of features designed to streamline AI development. Users can leverage proprietary data to build AI applications that go beyond the capabilities of standard LLMs. The platform allows for the side-by-side comparison of prompts, models, and LLM providers, and includes a library of test cases for evaluating prompts against industry-standard machine learning metrics. It also supports back-testing and version control for models in production, as well as an API for real-time document retrieval and querying. Users can swap model providers or parameters without needing to change code, ensuring continuous improvement.
Founders
Vellum was founded by a team of MIT engineers and former McKinsey consultants. The diverse background of the founders brings expertise in both technical and business domains, driving the company's mission to help other companies adopt AI by taking their prototypes to production.
Industry and Sub-Industry Focus
Operating within the Business-to-Business (B2B) sector, Vellum specifically targets the sub-industries of engineering, product, and design. By providing tools and support that bridge the gap between product teams and engineering teams, Vellum aims to streamline the development and deployment of AI features, enhancing collaboration and operational efficiency.