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  "markdown": "Founder; SPEV release author.\n\nIan Eaves founded Sprag, an inference platform for multimodal models built on vLLM-Omni. He has led machine learning and AI teams at startups and Fortune 50 companies for more than a decade, and earlier founded Grai, a Y Combinator-backed open-source tool for data lineage and pipeline testing. He also created visions, a semantic type system for Python.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ieaves/\n\n## What Ian builds\n\n- [SPEV](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sprag-spev.md), graded D, 51.4/100, in Decision models. SPEV is Sprag's open-weight decision model, released on 14 October 2026. It answers predicate, choice and score questions about text, audio or an image with a probability for each answer, through Sprag's hosted API or Apache-2.0 weights. Founder; SPEV release author, researched 2026-10-27.\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Ian Eaves?\n\nIan Eaves founded Sprag, an inference platform for multimodal models built on vLLM-Omni. He has led machine learning and AI teams at startups and Fortune 50 companies for more than a decade, and earlier founded Grai, a Y Combinator-backed open-source tool for data lineage and pipeline testing. He also created visions, a semantic type system for Python.\n\n### What does Sprag make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists SPEV from Sprag. SPEV is Sprag's open-weight decision model, released on 14 October 2026. It answers predicate, choice and score questions about text, audio or an image with a probability for each answer, through Sprag's hosted API or Apache-2.0 weights.\n\n### How are Ian's tools graded?\n\nSPEV is graded D, 51.4 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://sprag.ai/about\n- https://sprag.ai/blog/spev-open-weight-omnimodal-decision-model\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/ieaves/\n- https://sprag.ai/\n- https://x.com/SpragSocial\n- https://huggingface.co/SpragAI/SPEV/discussions\n- https://sprag.ai/contact\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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