What Polymath does
Polymath is an applied research lab focused on increasing the reliability and autonomy of AI agents. It builds simulation environments and simulated worlds where agents can practice, learn, and be evaluated on long-horizon tasks that mirror real-world conditions. The goal is to help agents perform useful work over extended periods with little or no human supervision.
Key capabilities
The company develops training and evaluation environments that let AI agents gain capabilities through practical experience rather than one-shot prompting. These environments are designed to test how agents plan, recover from errors, and complete multi-step work across long time horizons. Polymath partners with AI model developers to advance agent performance using this simulation-based approach.
Who it's for
Polymath serves AI model labs and research organizations building more autonomous agent systems, as well as teams that need rigorous ways to train and measure long-horizon agent reliability. It is backed by Base10 and Y Combinator.