Modaic
Modaic is in a16z speedrun SR006. Based in San Francisco, California, United States of America. Team of 2, founded in 2025.
Facts
- San Francisco, California, United States of America
- 2
- 2025
About Modaic
Summary
Modaic is a San Francisco-based startup building infrastructure that makes AI-driven decisions more reliable in production environments. The company focuses on judgment-heavy tasks such as content classification, moderation, and automated evaluation — areas where teams have historically been forced to choose between costly full human review and brittle automated pipelines. Modaic's approach involves assigning a confidence score to each AI decision, selectively routing only low-confidence cases to human reviewers, and feeding that human input back into the system to refine its underlying instructions over time. The net effect is a decision-automation layer that becomes progressively more accurate while reducing the volume of manual oversight required to sustain it.
Business model
Modaic appears to operate on an API-access model, likely charging based on usage volume — such as the number of decisions processed or confidence evaluations performed. This positions it as a usage-based infrastructure service sitting inside a customer's production stack.
Go-to-market
Modaic's primary customers appear to be engineering and machine learning teams at companies that run high-volume, automated decision pipelines in production. The buying motion likely begins with developers integrating the API directly into an existing workflow, making it a bottoms-up, developer-led adoption play. Acquisition likely comes through developer community channels, technical content, and word-of-mouth among teams already grappling with edge-case failures in AI classification or moderation systems.
Founders (2)
- Farouk Adeleke
- Tyrin-Ian Todd
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