✨ New: AI serving on NVIDIA Blackwell~2.5× more users→
Eppy, the EP-Hard mascot. Press me!

There’s a faster GPU hiding inside yours. You’ve already paid for it.

Eppy is a hunch engine with the instincts of an expert performance team. It finds it. Proves it. You keep it.

waiting for an answer0
answers per second, same GPU
1.0×
answered0
Same GPU.2.5× more answered.
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Gemma-4-31B on NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell · measured on held-out traffic
Want this on your GPUs?We'll unlock it on your traffic and send you the number. No changes to your model.
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≈60%fewer GPUs for the same traffic
5 tests vs ≈4 GPU-hoursEppy: 2.5×. The usual playbook: 4% more.
✓same response times, answer accuracy 80.1 vs 79.6
Receipts · AI serving

More users per GPU, quality checked.

Public benchmarks, same GPU, same promise to users, answers checked.

2.5×
more users per GPU

Found automatically.
Answers checked.

What most people use1.0×
The usual playbook1.04×
Eppy2.5×
Gemma-4-31B · RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell
+59%
more users per GPU

Best known setup in under an hour.
Quality unchanged. Busy chat: 4.6×.

What most people use4.43
Official 8-bit version6.55
Eppy7.06
NVIDIA H100 · requests per second
+14%
more users per GPU

Found automatically,
on documents it had never seen.

What most people use4.70
The usual playbook4.69
Eppy5.35
NVIDIA H100 · requests per second · first result

measured on held-out traffic Eppy never saw · same response promises · H100 cards: requests per second on one GPU

Estimate
$
at 2.5× capacity, about 60% fewer GPUs:—how? savings = spend × (1 − 1/2.5) = 60% of spend

Estimate based on our public benchmark; your result depends on your model and traffic.

Running models on your own GPUs?

Your GPUs are next.

Send us your model and a slice of real traffic. We send back your number.

  • No changes to your model
  • Same response times
  • Answers checked
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More from the lab

Shorter delivery routes.

Logistics · first results. A replay of the real run, then the numbers.

The same engine, other problems

Anything that's expensive to test.

Eppy isn't specific to GPUs. It works on any system where each test costs real time or money. Logistics is live. More are in the oven.

✓ first results LogisticsAbout 32% shorter routes than what most people use.see the replay →
Logistics · first results

Route planning

Eppy plugs into the route planner you already run and makes your routes shorter. No switching.

~32%
shorter routes than what most people use about 8% shorter than an expert setup · first results
1 / 7TodayYour planner runs on an expert setup.
📍London
1,000 stopsthe size of the delivery days Eppy was tested ona standard public test of real-sized delivery days
Fleets everywhererun route planners like this. Eppy plugs into all of them.
About 8% shorter routesthan an expert setup · about 32% shorter than what most people useon delivery days Eppy had never seen · first results
EPPY'S 40 REAL TESTS
Eppy is thinking…
Eppy

YOUR ROUTE PLANNERYour planner · expert setup

The same engine, other problems · logistics · first results

Same vans. Same planner. Shorter routes.

Eppy plugs into the route planner you already run and makes the routes shorter. No new software, no switching.

~32%shorter routes than what most people use
~8%shorter than an expert setup
1,000stops per delivery day

A popular route planner

Extra distance compared with the best routes ever found (lower is better), on delivery days Eppy had never seen.

Customers in clustersCustomers spread out
What most people use135.8%58.7%
The usual playbook135.3%59.0%
Expert setup73.7%34.8%
Eppy60.5%19.1%
  • About 32% and 25% shorter routes than what most people use.
  • About 8% and 12% shorter than an expert setup.

A competition-winning planner

Already very good out of the box. Eppy still made its routes shorter, on delivery days it had never seen.

The fine print

  • A standard public test set of delivery days, 1,000 customers each.
  • First results: public benchmarks, not a customer's fleet yet.

Run a route planner? We'll run Eppy on your past planning days, on your machines, and send you the number. myturn@ephard.ai

Track record

Our methods are out in the wild.

Running inside some of the world's most established labs, from CERN to ETH Zürich.

19teams in 7 fields use our methods
20212026
2021
all 19 sources
  • Ray · 2021 · Built into Ray Tune, a widely used tuning library
  • Continental · 2022 · Tuned how cars' cameras spot their own detection failures
  • U Toronto · 2022 · A planner in the Olympus self-driving-lab toolkit
  • UPC Barcelona · 2022 · Calibrated a real building's heating and cooling model (45 settings)
  • CERN · ATLAS · 2023 · Tuned the AI that hunts for a new particle at the Large Hadron Collider
  • ETH Zürich · 2023 · Designed a walking robot's new knee: 33% less motor effort, tested on the real ANYmal robot
  • Google · 2023 · Rebuilt its model inside Vizier, Google's optimisation library
  • Volkswagen · 2023 · Tuned AI models on vehicle data, across three studies
  • DLR · 2023 · Built into the German Aerospace Center's system-architecture design toolkit
  • NVIDIA · 2024 · Built it into their chip logic-synthesis system
  • Intel Labs · 2024 · Uses it to stress-test large language models (LLMart)
  • ZTE · 2024 · Designed an ultra-wideband antenna
  • Optuna · 2024 · Available as a sampler on OptunaHub
  • Ant Group · 2024 · Tuned LLM serving engines: up to 68% more requests than default settings, now in production
  • MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab · 2025 · Used it to teach an AI model how to optimise
  • MIT · CRESt · 2025 · Built into a robotic electrochemistry lab
  • Sony AI · 2026 · Tuned a robot arm's table-tennis serves, played against professionals
  • fal · 2026 · Tuned the training of a 22B-parameter video model
  • SJTU · Zhejiang Lab · 2026 · Designed DNA binders: 2–3× as many strong ones as the standard lab method, confirmed in the lab
RayContinentalU TorontoUPC BarcelonaGoogleVolkswagenDLRCERN · ATLASETH ZürichNVIDIAIntel LabsZTEOptunaAnt GroupMIT-IBM Watson AI LabMIT · CREStSony AIfalSJTU · Zhejiang Lab
Founding team from
Princeton UniversityMITUniversity of PennsylvaniaUniversity College London
Our name
a nod to NP-hard ♡
EP-hard
/ ˌiː.piː ˈhɑːd /  adj.

Of a problem: hard to evaluate.Checking whether an answer is good takes a lab, a fab, a solver or a week.

Named in homage to NP-hard, computer science's classic name for hard problems. Same spirit, different bottleneck: here the hard part is the test.

How long does one check take? log scale
Eppy, the EP-Hard mascot. Press me!
SudokuinstantCheck a filled-in grid in a blink.
Simulation runhoursOne engineering simulation run takes hours of compute.
Route settingsovernightRe-planning a month of past delivery days to test one set of settings.
Production trialdaysRunning a line on new settings and measuring the output.
Pricing testweeksWaiting for enough sales to tell whether a new price works.
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EP-hard · where Eppy works
Join us

Come build Eppy.

We're building an AI that gets more out of expensive systems than the experts do. It's early, it's hard, and your work shows up in real numbers.

Research scientistMake Eppy's hunches sharper.open
Research scientistTeach Eppy to think like the best experts.open
Machine learning engineerTurn research into a product people rely on.open
Systems engineerBring Eppy to new worlds: GPUs, routes, chips.open
Say hi · myturn@ephard.ai
Small team. Founders from Princeton, MIT, Penn & UCL.
psst… we're hiring ♡

What you'd touch in week one

The agent behind 2.5× more users per GPUsame GPU, answers checked

The agent that made delivery routes shorterabout 8% shorter than an expert setup

Methods already running at CERNand in teams across industry