Olly Styles

ai-engineer.evals.founder

AI engineer specialising in agent and LLM evaluation. Author of WorkBench (COLM 2024), a benchmark for tool-using agents, and WorkBench Revisited (2026). Machine Learning PhD from Warwick. Cofounded Atlas AI, a computer vision startup that ran four years. Now building an AI alignment platform at Artanis.

— work

Founding AI Engineer
2025 → now
Artanis: AI alignment platform for keeping model behavior consistent in production
Senior ML Engineer
2024 → 2025
Multiverse: Upskilling platform for AI adoption
Cofounder
2019 → 2023
Atlas AI: Computer vision startup for personal training

— education

PhD, Machine Learning
2017 → 2021
University of Warwick
MEng Computer Science (1st)
2013 → 2017
University of Warwick

— publications

WorkBench Revisited: Workplace Agents Two Years On
Preprint '26
Styles
WorkBench: A Benchmark Dataset for Agents in a Realistic Workplace Setting
COLM '24
Styles, Miller, Cerda-Mardini, Guha, Sanchez, Vidgen
Multiple Object Tracking and Forecasting: Jointly Predicting Current and Future Object Locations
WACV-W '22
Kesa, Styles, Sanchez
Multi-Camera Trajectory Forecasting with Trajectory Tensors
PAMI '21
Styles, Guha, Sanchez
Multi-Camera Trajectory Forecasting: Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction in a Network of Cameras
CVPR-W '20
Styles, Guha, Sanchez, Kot
•Best student paper•
Multiple Object Forecasting: Predicting Future Object Locations in Diverse Environments
WACV '20
Styles, Guha, Sanchez
Forecasting Pedestrian Trajectory with Machine-annotated Training Data
IV '19
Styles, Ross, Sanchez

— writing

Alignment Will Be All That Matters
Mar 2026
Why Bikeshedding Kills So Many AI Projects
Jul 2025
Policy: The Missing Core of the AI Stack
Jan 2025
Your Startup Shouldn't Be a Rocketship
Nov 2023
Atlas AI: Post-mortem
Oct 2023

— things I believe