MECHANIZE
What it was engaged to test, on what terms, what it found in the document's own words, and what happened afterwards. Every line is a record; every record links to the document it was read from.
- FoundedApril 2025
- HQSan Francisco
- Registry idnone cited (company)
- TestsSan Francisco company selling RL environments and evals for frontier coding agents; founded April 2025 by Matthew Barnett, Tamay Besiroglu and Ege Erdil; around 35 people by its own page; a Google talent deal is reported by Business Insider and not announced on the company's own press page
- Money, as the roster puts itnot stated
- Filesdossier · observatory, sliced to it · graph
- Labs tested
- no lab document names it
- Models
- no model named
- Span of engagements
- none dated
- Terms and findings
- 0 of 0 documents state a term · 0 quote a finding
- Money in, US dollars, stated single-recipient rows
- no stated figure 6 in · 0 outfrom Nat Friedman
- Seats, by side
- evaluator 2 between 1 3 people: Ege Erdil, Marco Mascorro, Tamay Besiroglu
- Afterwards
- staff move 1
Each count is the number of store records that name this evaluator. An engagement is one lab document naming it for one model; an outcome is an event on the record afterwards; the money, seats and moves are the observatory's rows filtered to it. A cell that cannot be filled says not stated, and each table ends with how many of its rows state each field.
Filters combine: any of the values ticked within a dimension, all of the dimensions at once. A table that has no column for a dimension you have set says so instead of showing rows that cannot match. The address bar carries the slice.
What it was engaged to test 0 engagements
In date order, each from the lab document that names the evaluator. Under each: the four terms that document states (access, model stage, publication, payment) and the finding in its words. A term the document is silent on reads not stated; the tags beside the terms are read off their words and are what the console filters on.
No lab document on record names this evaluator for a model.
Dated 0 of 0Model named 0 of 0Terms stated 0 of 0Finding quoted 0 of 0
The terms, as the documents state them
The same engagements as a grid, one row per document and model, so the silences line up: a document that gives an access window but no payment term, or a finding but no publication term, reads that way here.
| Document | Model | Access window | Model stage | Publication | Payment | Finding | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| no engagement on record | |||||||
Access window 0 of 0Model stage 0 of 0Publication 0 of 0Payment 0 of 0Finding, quoted 0 of 0
What happened afterwards 1 on record
Events a party published after an engagement: an incident on a model this evaluator's engagement covered, a correction or added disclosure, a later finding that cut against an earlier one, a lab's statement that it acted or did not act on the finding, or a move from this evaluator to a lab it graded. A row the source attaches to this evaluator by name is marked named; one that reaches it through the model it tested is marked via the model. The kind is what the record states, not why.
| Kind | Developer | Model | What the record states | When | Source | Id |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| staff movenamed | Google DeepMind | no model named | Tamay Besiroglu: Epoch AI (co-founder, associate director); Mechanize (co-founder, Apr 2025) -> Google DeepMind (research scientist, by Sep 2026) | Sep 2026 | Epoch AI; Mechanize; his post | 75f848d85a |
Dated 1 of 1Model named 0 of 1Tied to an engagement 0 of 1Evaluator named by the record 1 of 1
The money on record 6 rows
Rows of the observatory's money table that name this evaluator as recipient (in) or as funder (out), each as the record states it: a grant table line, a contract notice, a Form 990 schedule or the party's own disclosure. A figure quoted in prose is marked and never summed.
| Direction | Funder | Recipient | Amount, as recorded | When | Record | Source | Id |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| in | Nat Friedman | Epoch AI; MECHANIZE; Artificial Analysis | no amount publishedFunded a pilot of FrontierMath | not dated | party's own page | Epoch AI; Mechanize; Artificial Analysis; AIUC, Series A; Fortune, Oct 8 2025; Meta memo via CNBC | 16a5ebe3a8 |
| in | Nat Friedman | Epoch AI; MECHANIZE; Artificial Analysis | no amount publishedfirst-named backer of Mechanize | not dated | party's own page | Epoch AI; Mechanize; Artificial Analysis; AIUC, Series A; Fortune, Oct 8 2025; Meta memo via CNBC | cf9b872cbf |
| in | Nat Friedman | Epoch AI; MECHANIZE; Artificial Analysis | no amount publishedfirst-named of the eight backers on Artificial Analysis's About page, no amount stated | not dated | party's own page | Epoch AI; Mechanize; Artificial Analysis; AIUC, Series A; Fortune, Oct 8 2025; Meta memo via CNBC | 5e85e6667c |
| in | Nat Friedman | Epoch AI; MECHANIZE; Artificial Analysis | $55,000,000named on AIUC's team page among its $55 million investors, and AIUC's Series A post counts "our $15 million seed round from NFDG"investors, and AIUC's Series A post counts "our $15 million seed round from NFDG" | not dated | party's own page | Epoch AI; Mechanize; Artificial Analysis; AIUC, Series A; Fortune, Oct 8 2025; Meta memo via CNBC | 4aef243df2 |
| in | Nat Friedman | Epoch AI; MECHANIZE; Artificial Analysis | no amount publishedFortune names him among the seeders of Situational Awareness LP | not dated | party's own page | Epoch AI; Mechanize; Artificial Analysis; AIUC, Series A; Fortune, Oct 8 2025; Meta memo via CNBC | 0291b6507f |
| in | Nat Friedman | Epoch AI; MECHANIZE; Artificial Analysis | no amount publishedsince June 2025 co-lead of Meta Superintelligence Labs for AI products and applied research, per Meta's 30 June 2025 memo | June 2025 | party's own page | Epoch AI; Mechanize; Artificial Analysis; AIUC, Series A; Fortune, Oct 8 2025; Meta memo via CNBC | 835d93c2fa |
Amount stated 1 of 6Dated 1 of 6Purpose stated 1 of 6Funder profiled 6 of 6Recipient on the roster 6 of 6
Seats and moves 3 seats · 2 moves
Seats read off a team page, a governance page, an appointment notice or a filing that name this organization, and the dated moves into or out of it, from the observatory's own tables.
| Person | Side | Seat, as the record states it | Role | Dates | Source | Id |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tamay Besirogluslice | evaluator | co-founder, Mechanize, Apr 2025 | co-founder | Apr 2025 – current, as read | Mechanize | a4635dce1e |
| Ege Erdilslice | evaluator | co-founder, Mechanize | co-founder | dates not stated | Epoch AI; Mechanize | ad59928401 |
| Marco Mascorroslice | between | named backer of Mechanize, including its April 2026 round | named backer | April 2026 – current, as read | METR; Mechanize | f8cd01d5e7 |
Role read 3 of 3Organization read 3 of 3Organization profiled 3 of 3Dated 2 of 3
Moves
| Person | From | To | When | Source | Id | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tamay Besirogluslice | Epoch AI (co-founder, associate director) | → | Mechanize (co-founder, Apr 2025); Google DeepMind (research scientist, by Sep 2026) | 2025 to 2026 | Epoch AI; Mechanize; his post | d6d4d94fda |
| Ege Erdilslice | Epoch AI | → | Mechanize (co-founder) | Apr 2025 | Mechanize | 8b99131748 |
From profiled 2 of 2To profiled 2 of 2Person profiled 2 of 2Dated 2 of 2