## Forefront Chat

Forefront Chat was a consumer AI chat and automation platform with features like assistants, internet search, custom instructions, document chat, and workflows. Bringing many of the features listed above to market first, Forefront Chat was used by over 2 million lifetime users and 70k daily active users—with users from Apple, Amazon, Blackrock, Google, Salesforce, Nvidia, Databricks and more.

As a cofounder at Forefront, I led all product design and frontend engineering. Forefront Chat was built entirely by myself and two co-founders. My two co-founders led backend engineering and infrastructure.

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```

Forefront Chat

Codec is a mobile app that lets users browse a feed of podcast clips tailored to their interests. I led design of the the iOS app. Currently in TestFlight.

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```

Codec

Forefront's Open-Source LLM platform was the first platform to enable developers to LoRA fine-tune and inference open-source large language models. The platform included features like built-in loss charts, automated evals, and validation sets for fine-tuning jobs, import models from HuggingFace, dataset analytics / inspector, and a model playground.

Launched in October 2021, Forefront's LLM platform offered support for EleutherAI's GPT-J, GPT-NeoX, and Salesforce's CodeGen models with added support for Mistral, Llama, etc models as they were released. Forefront's LLM Platform was used by 10,000+ developers.

As a cofounder at Forefront I led product design, frontend engineering, and sales / solution engineering.

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```

Jimmy Greaser

2025

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