Today
Artificial intelligence
Building Azathoth at Eldritch: open source, built solo in the open from first commit to 1.2.0 in just over three months, with more than a hundred architecture decision records behind it.
About Eldritch
We build software for complex systems.
Eldritch, Inc. is a software company focused on the engineering problems that emerge as artificial intelligence becomes part of larger, increasingly complex software systems.
The company
Engineering the systems around intelligence.
Eldritch was founded to build ambitious software at the intersection of distributed systems, automation, developer infrastructure, and artificial intelligence.
Today, our focus is Azathoth, our open-source engine for benchmarking, optimizing and governing AI workflows, now at version 1.2.0, and on helping companies use it to make the AI they already run cheaper and more dependable.
We believe increasingly capable AI systems require the same engineering discipline expected from every other important software system: explicit architecture, repeatable evaluation, measurable behavior, and evidence-driven optimization.
Founder
Eris Discordia Montano
Founder & Principal Engineer
Eris is a software engineer, architect, and engineering leader with 30 years of experience building and modernizing complex technical systems.
Her career has moved through scientific research, commercial online gaming, enterprise infrastructure, distributed systems, cloud engineering, organizational transformation, and artificial intelligence.
She has architected systems across healthcare, biotechnology, telecommunications, logistics, agriculture, enterprise SaaS, gaming, and AI, while mentoring engineers and leading technical organizations through major shifts in how software is built.
- Built parts of early online game worlds before MMOs existed
- Game engine work at Simutronics, including the first game autoupdater
- Nextel's Southeast cell-tower alerting system, which its engineers relied on for years
- Brought GPT-3.5 into Ocelot Consulting and started its AI practice
- Founded QDivision, an engineering accelerator that graduated 23 engineers
Selected history
Three decades of technological change.
Cloud era
Distributed systems & engineering transformation
Architected cloud platforms, event-driven systems, enterprise infrastructure, and modernization initiatives while coaching engineering organizations through major technical transitions. Brought GPT-3.5 into Ocelot Consulting when the field was brand new, and started the firm down the path to AI consulting.
Internet era
Networked applications & multiplayer systems
Built parts of early online game worlds before MMOs existed, commercial multiplayer game infrastructure at Simutronics, Nextel's Southeast cell-tower alerting system, enterprise web applications, RFID systems and real-time audience technologies.
Origins
Science & computation
Began in medical device research, molecular biology, and plant genetic engineering before moving fully into software.
Engineering leadership
Build systems. Build engineers.
Engineering is not only architecture and code. It is also the ability to create environments in which other engineers become better.
Eris founded QDivision, an internal engineering accelerator that graduated 23 engineers across three cohorts into production Agile teams. Every graduate advanced to a senior engineering role within approximately one year.
What comes next
The next transition is already underway.
Eldritch exists to help engineer it.