Atla AI
Atla is the improvement engine for AI agents, dedicated to enabling the development of reliable and safe artificial general intelligence through frontier evaluation models.
Founding Story
Maurice Burger left his MBA at Harvard Business School to co-found Atla with Roman Engeler in early 2023. The vision was to address the reliability gap in AI agents by building automated evaluation and improvement systems that act as 'guardrails' for high-stakes AI applications.
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Leadership
Founders
Maurice Burger
Co-Founder & CEO. Previous roles: Co-founder and Advisor at Syrup Tech, Chief Operating Officer at Trim, Entrepreneur In Residence at Merantix, Research Assistant at DFKI. Masters in CS from University of Pennsylvania, pursued an MBA at Harvard Business School (left to start Atla).
Roman Engeler
Co-Founder & CTO. Background in Robotics and AI. Previously AI Alignment Researcher at Stanford Existential Risks Initiative, AI safety researcher at MATS, and Technical Product Manager at Sparrow Ventures and MIACAR. MSc in Robotics from ETH Zurich, Stanford, and Imperial College London.
Executive Team
Maurice Burger
Co-Founder & CEO
CS background from UPenn and startup veteran (Syrup Tech, Trim, Merantix).
Roman Engeler
Co-Founder & CTO
AI safety researcher and Robotics expert from ETH Zurich and Stanford.
Business Model
Revenue Model
B2B SaaS and API usage fees based on token consumption and platform access.
Pricing Tiers
$3 per 1M input tokens, $15 per 1M output tokens (consistent with Sonnet-class pricing).
Available via API, previously offered free of charge for limited periods.
Includes tailored onboarding sessions and custom evaluation metrics.
Target Markets
- AI Research & Deployment teams
- Legal Tech
- Enterprise Automation
- Productivity Software
- Building production-ready AI agents
- Reliability and safety testing in high-stakes domains (Legal, Logistics)
- Automating error analysis for LLM applications
- Performance regression tracking for agents
- JOSEPHA
- Major Legal AI startups
- Productivity AI platforms
History & Milestones
Released Selene 1 Mini, a general-purpose evaluation model.
Released Selene 1, outperforming OpenAI's o-series and Claude Sonnet on evaluation benchmarks.
Selene Mini evaluation model reaches 60,000+ downloads.
Atla founded by Maurice Burger and Roman Engeler.
Incorporated as ATLA AI LTD in the United Kingdom.
