CTGT
The deterministic layer for frontier intelligence
About CTGT
CTGT is an applied AI research laboratory and enterprise software company that has built a 'deterministic layer for frontier intelligence.' Its core product is a policy-as-code governance layer that intervenes directly at the neural network representation level to eliminate hallucinations, bias, and unpredictable outputs from large language models — without retraining or fine-tuning. The company targets Fortune 500 companies in highly regulated industries who need mathematically certain, auditable AI behavior. Their flagship API product, Mentat, is a drop-in OpenAI-compatible endpoint that provides runtime control over LLM outputs.
Open positions (7)
Software Engineering Intern (Summer 2027)
Research Intern: Interpretability & Reliability (Summer 2027)
Research Scientist: Interpretability & Reliability
Senior Software Engineer
Machine Learning Engineer: LLM Interpretability & Systems
Senior Software Engineer, Platform
Senior Software Engineer, Product
Company details
Funding
Total raised
$7.2M
Last stage
Seed
Investors
Founders
Cyril Gorlla
Left graduate studies at age 23 to co-found CTGT. Endowed Chair's Fellow at UC San Diego (Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute); work on efficient AI training was presented at ICLR. Collaborated with Intel on ML telemetry deployed on 8M+ CPUs. Named one of 12 '2022 Shining Stars' at UCSD; Ivory Bridges Fellow; Nordson Leadership Scholar. Research advised by ACM and Amazon Fellow Mikhail Belkin at UCSD. Also did research at Stanford. The company name 'CTGT' is derived from the initials of both founders (Cyril and Trevor). Spoke at MIT Imagination in Action AI Summit (April 2026) alongside Marc Benioff and Aleksander Madry.
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Trevor Tuttle
Built hyperscale distributed systems for large machine learning workloads at MLsys@UCSD. Worked in Technical Support at UC San Diego Health. Co-founded CTGT with Gorlla after meeting at UCSD as classmates. Formerly held the title of CTO; as of March 2026 his title is Co-Founder & Head of Solutions Engineering.
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