Founder of a listed tool

Daniel Chalef

Named behind 2 listings on Anchor Terminal.

Daniel Chalef

Founder

Daniel Chalef founded Zep AI, a Y Combinator Winter 2024 company building a context layer and memory for AI agents, including Graphiti, its open-source framework for temporal knowledge graphs. An engineer turned founder, he previously founded KnowledgeTree and was a late-stage operator at SparkPost, which MessageBird acquired.

What Daniel builds

  • Graphiti D · Agent memory

    Open-source Python framework from Zep that builds a temporal knowledge graph from chat messages, text and JSON.

    Founder, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it

  • Zep BB · Agent memory

    Hosted context and memory service built on a temporal graph of facts, relationships and source episodes.

    Founder, researched 26 October 2026 · the people behind it

Questions

Who is Daniel Chalef?

Daniel Chalef founded Zep AI, a Y Combinator Winter 2024 company building a context layer and memory for AI agents, including Graphiti, its open-source framework for temporal knowledge graphs. An engineer turned founder, he previously founded KnowledgeTree and was a late-stage operator at SparkPost, which MessageBird acquired.

What does Zep make?

Anchor Terminal lists Graphiti and Zep from Zep. Open-source Python framework from Zep that builds a temporal knowledge graph from chat messages, text and JSON.

How are Daniel's tools graded?

Graphiti is graded D, 53.3 out of 100; Zep is graded BB, 74 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

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