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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.

▣ THE RECORD for-profit Commercial benchmark and certification firms STORE 2026-10-23
  • 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.

▣ SLICE 12 / 12 records
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Outcome
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year, month or day

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.

DocumentModelAccess windowModel stagePublicationPaymentFindingRecord
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.

KindDeveloperModelWhat the record statesWhenSourceId
staff movenamedGoogle DeepMindno model namedTamay Besiroglu: Epoch AI (co-founder, associate director); Mechanize (co-founder, Apr 2025) -> Google DeepMind (research scientist, by Sep 2026)Sep 2026Epoch AI; Mechanize; his post75f848d85a

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.

DirectionFunderRecipientAmount, as recordedWhenRecordSourceId
inNat FriedmanEpoch AI; MECHANIZE; Artificial Analysisno amount publishedFunded a pilot of FrontierMathnot datedparty's own pageEpoch AI; Mechanize; Artificial Analysis; AIUC, Series A; Fortune, Oct 8 2025; Meta memo via CNBC16a5ebe3a8
inNat FriedmanEpoch AI; MECHANIZE; Artificial Analysisno amount publishedfirst-named backer of Mechanizenot datedparty's own pageEpoch AI; Mechanize; Artificial Analysis; AIUC, Series A; Fortune, Oct 8 2025; Meta memo via CNBCcf9b872cbf
inNat FriedmanEpoch AI; MECHANIZE; Artificial Analysisno amount publishedfirst-named of the eight backers on Artificial Analysis's About page, no amount statednot datedparty's own pageEpoch AI; Mechanize; Artificial Analysis; AIUC, Series A; Fortune, Oct 8 2025; Meta memo via CNBC5e85e6667c
inNat FriedmanEpoch 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 datedparty's own pageEpoch AI; Mechanize; Artificial Analysis; AIUC, Series A; Fortune, Oct 8 2025; Meta memo via CNBC4aef243df2
inNat FriedmanEpoch AI; MECHANIZE; Artificial Analysisno amount publishedFortune names him among the seeders of Situational Awareness LPnot datedparty's own pageEpoch AI; Mechanize; Artificial Analysis; AIUC, Series A; Fortune, Oct 8 2025; Meta memo via CNBC0291b6507f
inNat FriedmanEpoch AI; MECHANIZE; Artificial Analysisno amount publishedsince June 2025 co-lead of Meta Superintelligence Labs for AI products and applied research, per Meta's 30 June 2025 memoJune 2025party's own pageEpoch AI; Mechanize; Artificial Analysis; AIUC, Series A; Fortune, Oct 8 2025; Meta memo via CNBC835d93c2fa

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.

PersonSideSeat, as the record states itRoleDatesSourceId
Tamay Besirogluslice evaluatorco-founder, Mechanize, Apr 2025co-founderApr 2025 – current, as readMechanizea4635dce1e
Ege Erdilslice evaluatorco-founder, Mechanizeco-founderdates not statedEpoch AI; Mechanizead59928401
Marco Mascorroslice betweennamed backer of Mechanize, including its April 2026 roundnamed backerApril 2026 – current, as readMETR; Mechanizef8cd01d5e7

Role read 3 of 3Organization read 3 of 3Organization profiled 3 of 3Dated 2 of 3

Moves

PersonFromToWhenSourceId
Tamay BesiroglusliceEpoch AI (co-founder, associate director)→Mechanize (co-founder, Apr 2025); Google DeepMind (research scientist, by Sep 2026)2025 to 2026Epoch AI; Mechanize; his postd6d4d94fda
Ege ErdilsliceEpoch AI→Mechanize (co-founder)Apr 2025Mechanize8b99131748

From profiled 2 of 2To profiled 2 of 2Person profiled 2 of 2Dated 2 of 2