# Neal Patel

> Neal Patel is co-founder and CEO. ScaleDown on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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- Updated: 2026-10-27

Co-founder and CEO.

Neal Patel is co-founder and CEO of ScaleDown, which builds small task-specific models for compression, summarisation, extraction and classification. He was previously a data centre and AI sustainability strategist at Accenture, with more than five years in financial and ESG modelling, and studied business administration at UC Berkeley Haas.

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neal-k-patel
- X: https://x.com/neal_k_patel

## What Neal builds

- [ScaleDown](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scaledown.md), graded D, 48.8/100, in Decision models. ScaleDown's API serves three single-task Constrained Decoding Models (Classify, Extract and Summarize) and a Compress model, called with an API key at api.scaledown.xyz. Classify answers Jev-shaped decision requests with probabilities. Co-founder and CEO, researched 2026-10-27.

## Works with

- [Soham Chatterjee](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/soham-chatterjee/), Co-founder and CTO

## Questions

### Who is Neal Patel?

Neal Patel is co-founder and CEO of ScaleDown, which builds small task-specific models for compression, summarisation, extraction and classification. He was previously a data centre and AI sustainability strategist at Accenture, with more than five years in financial and ESG modelling, and studied business administration at UC Berkeley Haas.

### What does Carbon ScaleDown, Inc. make?

Anchor Terminal lists ScaleDown from Carbon ScaleDown, Inc.. ScaleDown's API serves three single-task Constrained Decoding Models (Classify, Extract and Summarize) and a Compress model, called with an API key at api.scaledown.xyz. Classify answers Jev-shaped decision requests with probabilities.

### How are Neal's tools graded?

ScaleDown is graded D, 48.8 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://x.com/scaledown_team
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/neal-k-patel
- https://x.com/neal_k_patel
- https://de.linkedin.com/in/soham-chatterjee
- https://x.com/csoham_
- https://scaledown.ai
- https://scaledown.ai/terms

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