# Interfaze

> Interfaze is a San Francisco AI startup building a model purpose-built for deterministic developer tasks - OCR, web scraping, speech-to-text, object detection and classification - where consistency and verifiable output matter more than open-ended chat. Its hybrid architecture fuses specialized neural networks (CNN/DNN) directly into a transformer decoder, and the model ships as an OpenAI-compatible API with confidence scores, bounding boxes and metadata so developers can build rule-based systems on top. Founded by Yoeven Khemlani and Harsha Vardhan Khurdula, Interfaze is part of Y Combinator's 2026 batch and grew out of the team's earlier developer-API company, JigsawStack.

- **Founded:** 2025
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Yoeven D. Khemlani (CEO & Co-Founder), Harsha Vardhan Khurdula (Co-Founder)
- **Team size:** 5-6
- **Products:** interfaze-beta, Hybrid model architecture, Built-in developer tools, Configurable guardrails, JigsawStack (predecessor)
- **Notable:** Accepted architecture paper 'Interfaze: The Future of AI is built on Task-Specific Small Models' at IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI) 2026 (arXiv:2602.04101)., Beta prototype reported to outperform a base Gemini model on vision-heavy tasks and exceed Claude Opus 4 on multiple benchmarks., Predecessor JigsawStack processed 10M+ API requests since its June 2024 beta.

## Products & services

- **interfaze-beta** — An OpenAI chat API compatible AI model built for deterministic tasks - OCR, audio understanding and structured data extraction - returning confidence scores, bounding boxes and metadata. 1M-token context window, 32k max output, multimodal input (text, images, audio, files, video), 100+ languages.
- **Hybrid model architecture** — A native hybrid architecture fusing task-specific deep neural networks (CNN/DNN) - such as OCR, object detection and speech recognition specialists - directly into a transformer decoder through a shared embedding space.
- **Built-in developer tools** — Headless browser and proxy scraper, web search, secure code sandbox and retrieval, exposed to the model so developers don't maintain their own tool stack.
- **Configurable guardrails** — NSFW filters and 14 specialized safety categories (violence, hate, privacy and others) for controlling model output.
- **JigsawStack (predecessor)** — Unified SDK and API suite of purpose-built small models automating backend developer tasks; processed 10M+ API requests and evolved into Interfaze.

## Achievements

- Accepted architecture paper 'Interfaze: The Future of AI is built on Task-Specific Small Models' at IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI) 2026 (arXiv:2602.04101).
- Beta prototype reported to outperform a base Gemini model on vision-heavy tasks and exceed Claude Opus 4 on multiple benchmarks.
- Predecessor JigsawStack processed 10M+ API requests since its June 2024 beta.
- Selected for Y Combinator's 2026 batch.
- Raised $1.5M total across pre-seed and seed rounds (Antler, Ada Ventures).

## Latest updates

- **2026-02** — Architecture paper accepted at IEEE CAI 2026 and published on arXiv (2602.04101).
- **2026** — Interfaze joins Y Combinator's 2026 batch.
- **2025** — Released interfaze-beta (v0.1) prototype; production hybrid model (v1) targeted within 3-6 months.
- **2025-03** — Ada Ventures round brings total raised to $1.5M.

## Links

- Website: https://interfaze.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/interfaze-ai
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/interfaze_ai
- GitHub: https://github.com/JigsawStack

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Last updated: 2026-07-30