AI diet helping new-age companies run lean

Shashank Agarwal, founder of API.market, runs a marketplace for artificial intelligence (AI) model application programming interfaces, with 3,100 customers across the world, and makes an annual recurring revenue (ARR) of $200,000. He is also building Noveum.ai, an evaluator of large language models for enterprise use, which is currently in beta stage.

Till October 2024, Agarwal was building the marketplace alone. His team has grown since—by all of two people, another co-founder and engineer, and he is now looking to hire three more engineers. He…