Anand Kannappan

Anand Kannappan is co-founder and CEO of Patronus AI, the evaluation and security platform he started with Rebecca Qian in 2023. The company focuses on detecting hallucinations, policy violations, and other failure modes in production LLM apps.

From research instincts to an eval company

Kannappan and Qian founded Patronus to give enterprises something more systematic than ad-hoc prompt checks. In interviews he describes the product around scoring outputs, catching safety and copyright issues, and helping teams ship LLM features with a clearer quality bar.

CEO of a young eval category leader

As CEO he has raised venture funding and kept Patronus positioned in the eval-and-quality lane rather than as a general agent platform. The public story is that evaluation has to be continuous and productized if generative features are going to sit in front of customers.