Greg Kamradt is president and a board member of ARC Prize Foundation, which develops evaluations of whether AI can solve unfamiliar problems. He also builds software and teaches practical AI development.[1][2]
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Background
Kamradt studied business at Loyola Marymount University and later took a data-science bootcamp in 2015. A 2016 PyData biography places him on Salesforce’s product data-science team as a senior growth analyst. He describes subsequently becoming the first business and operations hire at the financial-software company Digits, with work spanning analytics, monetization and product decisions. That background helps explain his emphasis on testing what AI can do in a concrete workflow.[5][6]
Career
His personal portfolio includes InterAuth, which gives an AI agent scoped read access to a Google Doc, and Agent Traffic Control, a view of agents doing work in parallel. These projects connect his evaluation work to practical agent workflows.[1]
Contributions
Measuring adaptability
Kamradt co-authored the ARC Prize 2025 technical report. ARC evaluations test how systems adapt to new tasks, making the benchmark useful alongside tests of memorized knowledge. The report documents the competition and its results.[3]
Testing whether a long context is usable
His Needle in a Haystack benchmark inserts a known fact into a longer body of text and asks a language model to recover it. By varying both the total length and where the fact appears, a reader can distinguish a model’s advertised input capacity from reliable retrieval across that input. The repository now supports single facts, multiple facts and chains of identifiers. Those are controlled retrieval tasks, so success should not be read as proof that a model understands every kind of long document.[7][8]
Ideas
Kamradt’s project portfolio also explores how agents receive information. InterAuth provides a disposable, read-only Google Doc share address, while agnts.sh serves a human page, Markdown or JSON according to the client’s request. Both make a specific interaction easier: giving software the source material it needs without asking it to reconstruct a conventional website first.[7]
Tools, writing & talks
Tools
Start here
Needle in a Haystack
github.comTests whether a language model retrieves inserted facts across different context lengths and positions.
Begin with the repository explanation to see a concrete evaluation experiment. Python helps for running it; the fake-model demo can show the workflow without an API key.
Apps
- Agent Traffic Controlagenttrafficcontrol.com
Displays agents completing work in parallel.
Builder listed on personal portfolio[1]
Writing, research & talks
- How Intelligent Is AI, Really?youtube.com
ARC Prize's Greg Kamradt explains the foundation's efficiency-based definition of intelligence and what it implies for founders reading model benchmark results.
Catalog workOriginal source - ARC Prize 2025: Technical Reportarxiv.org
The competition authors describe the 2025 evaluation program and results.
Co-author[3]