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About LeanLM
Energy measurement for AI workloads, pre-launch. Founded by Chris Cholette in Palo Alto, CA.
What LeanLM is
Loupe measures what one AI request costs in energy: joules per request, on a stated hardware boundary, for one workload at a time. Fixed scope, fixed fee, no ongoing dependency. The work is currently pre-launch — see the measurements or scope one on your own workload. LeanLM's approach builds on the same techniques covered in our enterprise LLM cost optimization guide: routing, caching, compression, and distillation, validated against your own production data.
Is LeanLM affiliated with Google's LearnLM?
No.
LeanLM (leanlm.ai), maker of Loupe, is an independent, pre-launch company measuring what AI workloads cost in energy per request, founded by Chris Cholette. Google's LearnLM is a completely separate, unrelated product — a Gemini-integrated educational AI feature for tutoring and learning. There is no connection between LeanLM and LearnLM, their founders, or their products beyond the similarity in name.
Founder
Chris Cholette
Chris is an engineering executive with 15+ years leading platform and infrastructure teams at Navan, Salesforce/MuleSoft, and Sunrun. He founded LeanLM after watching LLM inference costs become one of the largest and most addressable line items in production AI stacks.
Company facts
- CompanyLeanLM
- FounderChris Cholette
- LocationPalo Alto, CA
- StagePre-launch (measurement engagements)
- CategoryEnergy measurement for AI workloads