Shirali Nigam
Co-Founder & CEO
AI safety evaluation and red-teaming for conversational AI
Circuit Breaker Labs builds AI agents that simulate diverse users across ages, languages, and cultures to red-team conversational models for psychologically harmful interactions. The company runs multi-turn safety evaluations for high-risk applications such as AI coaching, journaling, and mental-health support, producing auditable scores intended to catch failures that standard speech benchmarks miss. It is a TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200 finalist (Disrupt 2026) founded by siblings Shirali Nigam (CEO) and Arul Nigam (CTO).
Co-Founder & CEO
Co-Founder & CTO