Leonard Tang leads AI research at Beacon Software, building reliable AI for essential businesses. He co-developed tools for AI evaluation, red-teaming and guardrails before his startup was acquired by Beacon.
Leonard Tang leads AI research at Beacon Software, building reliable AI for essential businesses. He co-developed tools for AI evaluation, red-teaming and guardrails before his startup was acquired by Beacon.
Career
Leonard Tang studied at Harvard University (Mathematics and Computer Science (studies)).
VP of AI Research at Beacon Software from 2026-09 to PresentLeads applied AI research and deployment of reliable AI across Beacon Software's portfolio of essential software businesses.HLCo-Founder and CEO at Haize Labs from 2024-01 to 2026-09Co-founded the AI reliability company, developing evaluation, red-teaming and guardrail tools; acquired by Beacon Software in September 2026.
Cosigns Received
himanshuAI researcher and product engineer
Felt so happy when Leonard told this for the first time. Congrats to Haize and Beacon on the acquisition! Excited to see Leonard and the team bring their work in AI reliability to the software Main Street already uses. Also, Leonard’s articles are quite awesome to read.
vania chowResearcher at Stanford University focused on AI governance and prediction markets infrastructure
I joined @beaconholdings to bring AI to the real economy. @haizelabs made AI dependable for the frontier labs and the Fortune 500, and that work now points at the Main Street businesses the world actually runs on. Excited to build it with @leonardtang_ and the team.
Kerem KazanML infrastructure and low-latency systems engineer at Haize Labs
the best team i've ever worked with. proud of you guys 🙏
Jack FriedsonFounder at Something New, Inc.
incredibly exciting, can't wait to see what this rockstar team will accomplish at @beaconholdings
EvanAI and technology professional; author of Cautious Optimism
Very excited to welcome @haizelabs to Beacon and continue executing on our mission to bring AI to the real economy. Welcome @leonardtang_ @steveshenli and team – we're so thrilled to be building with you!
benchunPortfolio Product Manager at Beacon Software
Congrats! Excited to have you all bring the cutting edge of AI research to the essential businesses we work with at Beacon.
Nicolai OuporovCo-Founder and CEO at Fleet AI | Human-AI collaboration and agent environments
Leonard has been incredibly prescient in all his moves. I think this co-sign is a huge bull signal for deployCos generally, and beacon especially
safwaanFounder and builder at The Fort
Stoked to have Haize join us at Beacon If you're excited about building world models and bringing AI to the real economy, my DMs are open Let's get to work
Goutham BuchiCTO at Beacon Software
“Transitioning these essential businesses through the AI revolution is one of the most consequential responsible AI problems of our time. “ 100%.