
Builder
Ronak Malde
Co-founder & CEO, Trajectory
Built SWE-1 at Windsurf and now leads Trajectory's continual-learning platform for improving agents from production use.
Real Alpha has cut 5 moments of Ronak Malde (Co-founder & CEO, Trajectory) talking, from an interview on Training Data published Nov 5, 2026.
What Ronak Malde said
Bringing Continual Learning to Every Company: Trajectory’s Ronak Malde
5 moments · 16 min
- 13:05
Single rollouts can train agents without replay environments Pro pick
“we can actually learn from just that one behavior or that one rollout.”
at 14:36 - 20:11
Continual learning keeps humans in the loop Pro pick
“you need to allow these models and build the algorithm so that it keeps humans in the loop.”
at 24:05 - 10:27
Continual learning starts with traces, replay and training
“you need to be able to trace all of your trajectories that are happening in production.”
at 10:49 - 4:40
Harvey raised its legal benchmark score from 4% to 18%
Harvey used Trajectory to train an open-source model that moved from 4% to 18% on its legal benchmark, at six times lower cost than frontier models. Its domain data lets it improve beyond general-purpose systems.
- 29:04
Malde sees specialization lifting AI adoption from 1% to 99%
“we get to a world of specialization where everyone can basically customize every single part of the harness, the model, and that's where we get to a world of abundance.”
at 30:46
- 13:05