Brian Elliot is CEO of Blitzy, an autonomous software development platform for enterprises. West Point graduate, Army Ranger, served in Syria. Co-founded Blitzy with Sid (from India) after meeting at HBS. Raised $200M at $1.4B valuation. Blitzy uses multi-model orchestration for large-scale code generation.
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Blitzy operates as an orchestration layer using multiple frontier models to achieve dramatic quality gains through cross-model verification, targeting large-scale enterprise refactoring and modernization with 500K-1M lines of code per task, not launching own models.
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