Ben Cochran is the Founder of Statewright, an AI agent reliability platform that uses visual state machines and a deterministic Rust engine to make AI coding agents more predictable and effective.

Ben brings over 20 years of hands-on experience in full-stack engineering, DevOps, high-performance computing, and machine learning, with notable stints at NVIDIA and AMD, most recently serving as a Distinguished Engineer.

Ben identified a core flaw in agentic AI: brute-forcing reliability with bigger models and longer prompts does not solve the structural problem of non-deterministic behavior in LLMs.

At NVIDIA, Ben built internal developer infrastructure and automation tooling, and led engineering teams focused on post-silicon validation and high-performance systems, shaping his deep expertise in constrained, reliable software execution.

Statewright's state machine constraints demonstrated dramatic results in benchmarks, with two local models improving from 2 out of 10 to 10 out of 10 on SWE-bench tasks, and the platform is live today with a free tier integrated into Claude Code via MCP.