Herdora Launches: Fix Slow ML Inference With One Line of Code

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February 9, 2026

Herdora recently launched!

Launch YC: Herdora Launches: Fix Slow ML Inference With One Line of Code

"Profile your inference pipeline in < 60 seconds with one line of code"

TL;DR
Herdora is reverse engineering GPUs to give ML engineers the profiling tools they actually need. Cut inference latency by 50%+ with one line of code.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEZHky0Xexk

Founded by Steven Arellano & Emilio Andere

Today, Herdora is releasing Keys & Caches. They aim to solve one of the most frustrating problems in ML infrastructure: you can't see why your model is slow.

🔥 The Problem

If you're running any ML models in production, you know the pain:

  • Your inference is inexplicably slow but existing profilers give you walls of incomprehensible data
  • You're burning through GPU budget without knowing why
  • You miss SLAs because you can't find the actual bottlenecks
  • torch.profiler either overwhelms you with noise or misses the real issues entirely
Image Credits: Herdora

⚡ Their Solution

The team is reverse engineering NVIDIA GPUs to understand how they execute ML workloads. With Keys & Caches:

  1. Add one decorator to your code
  2. Get clear, actionable traces showing exactly where time and memory go
  3. Drill down from Python to CUDA to PTX - see every layer of the stack
  4. Find and fix bottlenecks in minutes, not days

Here's what it looks like in action.

Image Credits: Herdora

They have already helped a team optimize their Llama deployment and cut latency by 67% by identifying a single overlooked kernel that was eating 40% of runtime. Read the full case study.

Learn More

🌐 Visit www.herdora.com to learn more.
📣 If you're scaling inference-heavy workloads: Try Keys & Caches free - Get 10 hours of profiling credits for FREE 💸💸💸, no credit card required!
👉 Book a 20-min demo if you want to see it on your actual workload.
⚙️ For the GPU-curious: Check out their deep dives on GPU internals and optimization techniques
🤝 Reach out directly to the founders here.
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