Custom AI for predictions

Trained on data you already have

Lightning Rod turns messy real-world data into compact expert models that predict outcomes, reason about cause and effect, and outperform frontier AI where your business needs accuracy most.
No manual labeling required.

Trusted by enterprise, government, and startups

Better results

Train compact models that know your domain and beat frontier AI on your use case.

Cheaper inference

Run smaller models at a fraction of frontier-model cost.

Deploy securely

Deploy in your cloud or ours, with models trained for your data and workflows.

Lightning Rod trains on real-world outcomes found in messy real-world data.

Proven against frontier AI.

Our models have beaten frontier systems on live forecasting benchmarks, domain prediction tasks, and peer-reviewed research.

Mar 2026 ProphetArena

Most accurate model on ProphetArena

Foresight-v3 is #1 in Sports and Politics, and the only model with a positive edge in both.

Jan 2026 Benchmark

Top 5 on ForecastBench

Outperformed Gemini 3 Pro, Claude Sonnet 4.5, and o3 on the Forecasting Research Institute benchmark.

2025–2026 Peer Reviewed

Cutting Edge Research

Beating frontier models using our novel Future-as-Label methodology.

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Integrate anywhere.

Use our SDK to generate datasets, train and evaluate models, and automate workflows with custom AI models.

  • Generate datasets with full provenance & citations
  • Bootstrap with public feeds: news, SEC filings, Wikipedia
  • Train & evaluate custom models
build_dataset.py
from lightningrod import Pipeline

pipeline = Pipeline([
    NewsSeedGenerator(query="AI regulation"),
    ForwardLookingQuestionGenerator(
        instructions="Generate questions about future AI regulations and rulings"
    ),
    WebSearchLabeler()
])

dataset = pipeline.run(n_samples=100)

Trusted by enterprise, government, and startups.

We got back 10,000 high-quality, citable QA pairs in hours — we were fine-tuning the next day.

Joe Phongpreecha
Joe Phongpreecha
Co-founder & CEO, Takeoff 41

Lightning Rod is the only solution that turns messy sources into high-quality, verified training data.

Ross Koenig
Ross Koenig
Chief Data Officer, Shore Capital Partners

Thousands of high-confidence Q&A pairs in an incredibly short time — something that would have taken our team weeks manually.

BB Chen
BB Chen
Co-founder, CareTie

We went from idea to deployment in a single sprint. Without this, we would have been stuck in a proof-of-concept loop for months.

Paul Alexander
Paul Alexander
CTO, Caremaze

10,000 labeled examples that we immediately put to work in our eval pipeline, teleporting us weeks ahead.

Andrew Becker
Andrew Becker
CEO, InPolicy.ai

Incredibly easy way to generate high-quality datasets from public sources.

Adam Goldenberg
Adam Goldenberg
CEO, Fabletics

Train on the data you already have.

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