Kiln – AI Boilerplate with Evals, Fine-Tuning, Synthetic Data, and Git
I noticed there weren't boilerplates for AI projects like there were for web apps, so I built one. Same idea - everything you need to get a project up and running quickly. However, instead of web-framework/CSS/DB, it's tools for AI projects: evals, synthetic data gen, fine-tuning, and more. Kiln is a free, open tool that gives you everything most AI projects need in one integrated package: - Eval system: including LLM-as-judge evals, eval data generation, human baselines - Fine-tuning: proxy to many fine-tuning providers like Fireworks/Together/OpenAI/Unsloth -…
Kiln – AI Boilerplate with Evals, Fine-Tuning, Synthetic Data, and Git launched on July 28, 2025 with 10 votes, #2,392 of 9,223 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
In plain words
Kiln is a free, open-source boilerplate for AI projects that integrates essential tools into one package. It includes evaluation systems with LLM-as-judge capabilities, fine-tuning support across multiple providers like OpenAI and Fireworks, synthetic data generation, and model routing across twelve providers. The tool is designed for developers building AI applications who need standardized infrastructure for testing, improving, and deploying models, with git-based collaboration built in.
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From the sources
Demos of Kiln AI Projects. Contribute to Kiln-AI/demos development by creating an account on GitHub.
There are a ton of boilerplates out there for web development that integrate the tools you need to start a project (web framework, tests, CSS framework, auth, CI, etc). So why aren't there good boilerplates for starting AI projects? I've been building a boilerplate with the tools most AI projects need: evals, synthetic data, fine-tuning, collaboration, and more. They all work together smoothly, and you can set up a new project in a few minutes. It offers a systematic way to iterate on AI systems, moving past vibe-checks. It's called Kiln , and it's a free+open tool that runs locally. This walkthrough covers: Learn more about Kiln on our primary GitHub repo (this repo is for Kiln demo…from github.com
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I noticed there weren't boilerplates for AI projects like there were for web apps, so I built one. Same idea - everything you need to get a project up and running quickly. However, instead of web-framework/CSS/DB, it's tools for AI projects: evals, synthetic data gen, fine-tuning, and more. Kiln is a free…
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