Towards AI

Towards AI provides AI education and builds custom AI systems for enterprises. Towards AI Academy offers project-based courses that take developers from data pipelines to deployment, while enterprise programs combine workforce training, architecture advice and hands-on development. Teams can commission documented LLM systems and learn to maintain them internally. Applications include receipt processing, document automation and tender discovery, with services extending to private equity portfolios.

The original platform launched in 2019 under founder Roberto Iriondo. Today, its leadership includes CEO and co-founder Louie Peters, CTO and co-founder Louis-François Bouchard, and co-founder Denis Piffaretti. Peters and Bouchard co-authored Building LLMs for Production, which teaches prompting, retrieval-augmented generation, fine-tuning and application reliability. Its public companion notebooks turn those techniques into practical exercises covering applications, evaluation, agents and inference benchmarking.

A 2022 acquisition brought the original platform’s assets into Towards AI, Inc., a newly incorporated company led by Peters that adopted the Towards AI name. By August 2026, the company reported 500,000+ learners taught since 2019, 200,000+ newsletter readers, 100,000+ Discord members and 10,000+ book copies sold. Its enterprise practice and educational programs are supported by a team of more than 15 AI practitioners.