Co-founder · AI engineering & product
Yug Gupta
Previously at AGI Inc · Founder, Proton Lab
Led RealEvals at AGI Inc and founded Proton Lab. His work spans agent evaluation, local AI, and building products from first prototype to launch.
About Friday
Small team.
Close to the work.
We build on-prem AI infrastructure and custom agents for European businesses. You work directly with the team, from choosing a useful first workflow to the engineering behind it.
Backed by VarianceThe people behind Friday
Meet the team.
Co-founder · Product & applied AI
Vedant Nayak
Previously at Dench · Co-creator, Variance
Brings experience from Dench, the AI company building agents for revenue workflows. Co-created Variance with Yug, bringing builders together around ambitious technical work.
How we think about the work
Useful first. Built around you.
An AI project starts with the work your team needs to do. We shape the infrastructure, permissions and integrations around that purpose.
A clear first use case
Start with a recurring task: finding company knowledge, preparing a document or moving information between systems. Agree the scope and how to judge the result before building.
Your environment matters
On-prem AI infrastructure needs to fit your servers, data sources and access rules. We discuss those constraints early and make human review part of workflows where it is needed.
A practical handover
Deployment is part of the work. We define the documentation, operating responsibilities and support arrangements with your team, so there is a clear plan beyond the pilot.
Experience you can explore.
Our work archive brings together the founders’ engineering projects, previous company experience and website design and development delivered through Proton Lab. Each entry names the people or organisation behind it. The Proton Lab case studies cover public-facing websites, while the engineering archive covers agent evaluation, local AI and developer tools.