Lightning Rod Labs
Enable organizations to build domain-expert AI from messy, real-world historical data by automatically converting raw documents into verified, provenance-rich training sets.
At a Glance
- Enterprise Finance
- Healthcare
- Logistics & Supply Chain
- Government and Defense
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Lightning Rod
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Latest News
Research: Forecasting supply chain disruptions with foresight learning
Foresight-v3 beats GPT-5 and Gemini 3 Pro on ProphetArena benchmark
Ranked #1 on ProphetArena Sports leaderboard
Foresight-32B outstrips Claude Sonnet 4.5 on ForecastBench
Products & Services
A web-based UI and agent orchestration platform for end-to-end dataset creation from raw documents.
A Python SDK for generating verified Q&A pairs and training datasets with automatic citations.
High-accuracy forecasting models fine-tuned using the Future-as-Label methodology.
Market Position
Positions itself as a leader in 'forecasting-tuned' AI, outperforming frontier models like GPT-5 and Gemini 3 Pro on rigorous benchmarking leaderboards.
Leadership
Founders
Ben Turtel
Founder & CEO of Lightning Rod Labs. Previously Founder & CEO of Kazm, and Founder & CTO of Rivet (acquired by Google). Former Senior Software Engineer (L5) at Google and Data Scientist at Kinsa. Holds a Master's in Scientific Computing from NYU.
Danny Franklin
Co-founder of Lightning Rod Labs. Previously Founder and CTO of Kazm. Former Senior Software Engineer at Google and Software Engineer at Microsoft. Stanford Computer Science graduate.
Executive Team
Ben Turtel
Founder & CEO
Experienced ML/AI leader; former Google SWE and founder of Google-acquired Rivet.
Danny Franklin
Co-founder / CTO
Former Google and Microsoft engineer with a background in Stanford CS.
Board of Directors
Founding Story
Transitioned from Kazm (founded 2021) to focus on AI orchestration and the 'Future-as-Label' methodology for training high-accuracy forecasting models.
Business Model
Revenue Model
SaaS and Enterprise subscriptions; government contracts and defense procurement via DARPA ERIS and CDAO Tradewinds.
Pricing Tiers
Custom deployment and model training on organization data.
Access via Python SDK and Hugging Face for research and development.
Target Markets
- Enterprise Finance
- Healthcare
- Logistics & Supply Chain
- Government and Defense
- Research Institutions
- Policy forecasting
- Medical question answering
- Supply-chain disruption forecasting
- Portfolio and company risk assessment
- Geopolitical tariff predictions
- Synapse
- OptX Trading
- U.S. Department of Defense