Harvey Co-founder: Own Your Intelligence Stack — Custom Models, Harnesses and Evals
dair_ai · x · 2026-09-23
Harvey co-founder Gabe Pereyra reflects on the hardest part of building Harvey: doing right by customers under pressure to do the easy thing.
- The easy path would have been forcing customers onto consumption pricing early and serving worse models to protect margins. Harvey refused.
- Instead it let customers transition on their own timeline while getting the best models, even at margin cost — optimizing via routing, harness improvements, and post-training to serve frontier intelligence affordably, plus usage dashboards and per-seat spend management infrastructure.
dair-ai's omarsar0 draws the broader lesson: 'Own your intelligence stack' — you can't scale to the frontier by renting intelligence; custom models, harnesses, and evals are becoming huge assets.
Related event: Harvey CEO explains path to positive gross margin(2 posts)→
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