OpenAI

OpenAI

GPT-4o, o3 & frontier models

3 case studies
21 specialists
46 specialists
General Foundation Model

What it's used for

Accessing GPT-4o, o3, and other OpenAI models via API for text generation, code completion, function calling, and multimodal tasks. Widely used as the default LLM backend in AI applications, chatbots, and agent frameworks due to its broad capability and extensive ecosystem support.

Getting started

Create an account at platform.openai.com and generate an API key from the API Keys page. Install the Python SDK with `pip install openai` or the Node SDK with `npm install openai`, then set your key as the OPENAI_API_KEY environment variable. Pay-as-you-go billing is required with pricing varying by model tier.

$ pip install openai` or the Node SDK with `npm install openai`

Case studies

Real OpenAI projects

91% accuracy (+24pts) Healthcare

Fine-Tuned GPT-4 — 91% Domain Task Accuracy

Healthcare technology company

Challenge

A healthcare tech company was using base GPT-4 for clinical text classification but hitting 67% accuracy — below the 90% threshold required for regulatory compliance.

Solution

Fine-tuned GPT-4 on 500k domain-specific clinical examples using OpenAI's fine-tuning API. Iterated on training data curation, prompt formatting, and hyperparameters tracked in W&B.

Results

Task accuracy improved from 67% to 91%, clearing the compliance threshold. Inference cost 40% lower than base GPT-4 at the same throughput due to shorter prompts needed post-fine-tune.

34% higher reply rates B2B SaaS

Personalized Email Sequences — 34% Higher Reply Rates

B2B SaaS company, sales development team

Challenge

An SDR team was sending generic email sequences with a 1.8% reply rate. They had rich prospect data but no scalable way to personalize at the research depth needed to improve replies.

Solution

Designed a GPT-4o prompt chain that ingests LinkedIn, company news, and job postings to generate hyper-personalized first lines and value props per prospect. Structured output via function calling feeds directly into their CRM.

Results

Reply rate jumped from 1.8% to 2.9% — a 61% relative increase (34% above their target). Pipeline generated grew 180% in the first quarter of deployment.

99.85% cost reduction Hedge Fund / Finance

10K/10Q Filing Extraction at $0.003/Document

Mid-market hedge fund, 500 filings/quarter

Challenge

An equity research team was manually extracting structured financial metrics, guidance language, and risk factors from SEC filings — $2/document in analyst time, 500+ documents per quarter.

Solution

Built a GPT-4 extraction pipeline using function calling to produce structured JSON from 10K/10Q filings. Chunked filings intelligently by section type (MD&A, financials, risk factors) for targeted extraction.

Results

Cost dropped from $2 to $0.003 per document — a 99.85% reduction. Extraction covers 40+ fields per filing with 97% accuracy validated against manual samples. Processing 500 filings now takes 2 hours instead of 3 weeks.

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OpenAI specialists

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Greg Kamradt

AI Educator & Consultant @ Data Independent

Runs Data Independent, an AI education and consulting practice. One of the most recognized LangChain educators with tutorials that have millions of views. Created the 'Needle in a Haystack' long-context evaluation methodology that became an industry-standard benchmark.

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Available 23 projects San Francisco
$200/hr
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Hamel Husain

Independent AI Consultant & Educator @ Parlance Labs

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Independent ML engineer with 20+ years of experience, formerly at Airbnb and GitHub where he did early LLM research used by OpenAI for code understanding. Co-teaches 'AI Evals for Engineers and PMs' with 3,000+ students from 500+ companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. Expert on LLM fine-tuning and evaluation systems for production AI products.

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Available 81 projects San Francisco
$3,750/session
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Harpreet Sahota

AI/ML Engineer & Community Leader @ Voxel51 (Hacker-in-Residence)

Hacker-in-Residence at Voxel51 building prototypes, open-source tools, and educational content. Host of 'The Artists of Data Science' podcast with 300+ interviews. Mentored 2,500+ aspiring data scientists. Experience at Deci AI, Pachyderm, Bold Commerce. Teaches on LinkedIn Learning and 365 Data Science.

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Available 38 projects Canada
$150/hr
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Dave Shapiro

AI Researcher & Author @ Independent

Independent AI researcher and author focused on autonomous AI agents, cognitive architectures, and AI alignment. Creates in-depth YouTube content on building AI agent systems, RAG pipelines, and autonomous reasoning. Author exploring the philosophical and practical implications of advanced AI.

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Available 46 projects United States
$175/hr
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Allie K. Miller

AI Advisor & Investor @ Independent (ex-Amazon Head of ML)

Former Head of Machine Learning at Amazon. Now an independent AI advisor, investor, and one of the most-followed AI voices on LinkedIn with millions of followers. Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 and Inc.'s Female Founders list. Advises Fortune 500 companies on AI strategy and invests in AI startups.

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Abhishek Thakur

World's First 4x Kaggle Grandmaster @ Vespa.ai (ex-Hugging Face, Boost.ai)

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World's first Quadruple Kaggle Grandmaster — achieving Grandmaster rank across all four Kaggle categories (Competitions, Notebooks, Datasets, Discussions). Author of 'Approaching (Almost) Any Machine Learning Problem.' Former ML engineer at Hugging Face. Created AutoXGB and other open-source ML tools. Teaches through YouTube and open-source projects.

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Available 79 projects Norway
$250/hr
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Kavita Ganesan

AI Consultant & NLP Expert @ Opinosis Analytics

Founder of Opinosis Analytics, specializing in AI consulting for healthcare, pharma, and enterprise. Published peer-reviewed research in medical AI and collaborates with medical institutions. Author and educator on practical NLP applications. Helps organizations unlock value from unstructured text data.

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Available 78 projects United States
$250/hr
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Sam Witteveen

AI Developer & Google Developer Expert @ Red Dragon AI

Co-founder of Red Dragon AI and Google Developer Expert for Machine Learning. Creates in-depth YouTube tutorials on building with Google Gemini, LangChain, and other AI frameworks. One of the earliest and most thorough educators on Google's AI tools, from PaLM to Gemini.

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Available 44 projects Singapore
$175/hr
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Adam Goodyer

AI Automation Expert @ Independent

AI automation expert who builds workflows that save businesses 10-30+ hours per employee per week. Expert-Vetted and Top 1% with 250+ delivered projects and 100% Job Success. Specializes in n8n, Make.com, Zapier, AI chatbots, document processing, and API integrations.

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Available 250 projects Sydney
$125/hr
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Juan Luis Ruiz-Tagle

AI Engineer @ Independent ()

AI engineer specializing in LLMs and machine learning with extensive experience in healthcare, finance, spatial analytics, and advertising. -vetted freelancer. Built robust clinical note generation pipelines, automated LLM evaluation testing on AWS Batch, and fine-tuned models for domain-specific tasks.

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Available 35 projects Barcelona
$175/hr
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Yaroslav Kopotilov

Senior Data Scientist & AI Consultant @ Independent ()

Senior data scientist on with extensive experience in predictive modeling, data visualization, and LLM evaluation. Developed internal tools for prompt prototyping at scale. Architected methods for evaluating LLM responses across closed-source and open-source models. Manages complex data science projects with small, agile teams.

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Available 40 projects Belgrade
$150/hr
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Volodymyr Korol

AI/ML Developer @ Independent ( Top 1%)

Top 1% AI Developer with 13+ years in tech, delivering 50+ AI projects across Machine Learning, NLP, Computer Vision, and predictive analytics. Specializes in building AI-driven multi-tenant SaaS systems and RAG applications.

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Available 50 projects Lviv
$100/hr
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Hiren Kavad

Generative AI Developer @ Independent ()

Artificial Intelligence & Generative AI Developer on with 12+ years of experience. Specializes in GPT-4, OpenAI, RAG systems, and building AI-powered applications. Delivers end-to-end AI solutions from prototyping to production deployment.

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Available 45 projects Ahmedabad
$60/hr
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Ivan Zidov

Expert-Vetted AI (LLM) Engineer @ Independent

6+ years delivering value with NLP, LLM, and chatbot technology. Started using Large Language Models when HuggingFace was still called 'pytorch-pretrained-bert'. Featured in industry fireside chat series as an Expert NLP Engineer.

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Available 37 projects Prelog
$125/hr
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Bruce Meek

Certified Prompt Engineer & AI Engineer | CEO, ArcanEdge.ai @ Independent

Over 120 projects on (many long-term, all five-star). Designs prompt stacks and evaluation frameworks, assembles LLM workflows, and manages AI MVPs — from tax-review assistants and ingredient advisors to master data management tools. Journey from oil rigs to AI innovation. Featured in customer success stories.

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Available 32 projects Wichita Falls
$100/hr
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Tom Kresal

Full-Stack Machine Learning Engineer @ Independent

Full-stack ML engineer working on projects driven by smart algorithms and data. Designed ML systems for accounting document recognition using deep learning. Doubled accuracy of an AI corrosion detection model. Builds highly scalable backend services with Python, FastAPI, Celery, Redis, and MongoDB.

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Available 33 projects Rosice
$100/hr
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Abhik Mukherjee

AI Consultant | RAG Chatbot & Voice Agent Specialist @ Independent

Earned $50,000+ on long-term AI consultancy projects helping clients implement LLM-powered systems and intelligent chatbots. 1000+ hours of consultation for optimizing conversational AI workflows. Expertise spans LLMs, vector search, voice cloning, custom voice model training, and real-time voice transformation using ElevenLabs.

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Available 26 projects Kharagpur
$100/hr
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Mak Ziga

Prompt Engineer | OpenAI, Anthropic, Google & Open-Source Models @ Independent

Started out winning prompt engineering hackathons, now a top-rated freelancer creating prompts for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and open-source models with precision that meets client goals. Known for making AI models 'do things you didn't know were possible.'

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Available 29 projects Vogosca
$100/hr
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Mark Spencer Jallores

AI Engineer | Prompt Engineer | Computer Vision & Rapid Prototyping @ Independent

Top-Rated contractor who has curated 30+ prompt templates for clinical applications, developed RAG pipelines using Pinecone, and optimized social media agents. Built production-ready solutions including a chatbot that reached 10,000+ visits.

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Available 33 projects Bacoor
$100/hr
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Malik Ahmed

Expert AI Engineer | OpenAI, RAG, LangChain | AI Agents & Agentic AI | MCP @ Independent

Expert AI Engineer specializing in OpenAI, RAG, and LangChain with AI Agents and Agentic AI. Experienced with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for building connected AI systems.

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Available 29 projects Pakistan
$100/hr
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Zen van Riel

Senior AI Engineer @ Independent

Former Senior AI Engineer at GitHub and Microsoft. Now independent consultant and educator with 22k+ YouTube following teaching practical AI engineering. Publishes rate guides and strategy content for AI freelancers. Built career from intern to Senior Engineer in 4 years.

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Available 25 projects Netherlands
$200/hr

Thought leaders

AI leaders using OpenAI

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Harrison Chase

LangChain

CEO and co-founder of LangChain, the most widely-used framework for building LLM-powered applications. Legendary for his deep presence in the developer community, paying close attention to developer problems and shipping solutions rapidly. Built the orchestration layer that powers thousands of AI applications in production.

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San Francisco Leader
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Jerry Liu

LlamaIndex

CEO and co-founder of LlamaIndex, the leading framework for building document agents and RAG systems. Previously held roles at Apple, Quora, Two Sigma, and Uber. Under his leadership, LlamaIndex crossed 600,000+ monthly downloads and raised $8.5M from Greylock. Teaches advanced RAG courses on DeepLearning.AI.

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James Briggs

Aurelio AI

Founder of Aurelio AI and ex-Pinecone developer advocate. One of the most prominent AI educators on YouTube, known for breaking down complex AI concepts with practical code walkthroughs. Co-authored the LangChain AI Handbook and created the comprehensive 5-hour LangChain Mastery course covering agentic systems, LangSmith, and LCEL.

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Simon Willison

Independent

British programmer, co-creator of the Django web framework, and one of the best-known software engineers experimenting with LLMs to boost productivity. Runs simonwillison.net, an influential blog offering practical analysis of LLM advancements. Built 77+ HTML/JS apps and 6+ Python apps entirely by prompting LLMs. Created the LLM command-line tool for running prompts from the terminal.

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Andrej Karpathy

Eureka Labs

Founding member of OpenAI and former Director of AI at Tesla where he led the Autopilot computer vision team. PhD from Stanford under Fei-Fei Li. Created Stanford's CS 231n course which grew from 150 to 750 students. Founded Eureka Labs for AI education. Released nanoGPT and nanochat as open-source educational tools. One of the most influential AI educators, with his Neural Networks: Zero to Hero series widely considered the gold standard.

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Swyx (Shawn Wang)

Latent Space / Smol AI

Editor of Latent Space, the leading AI engineering newsletter and podcast. Popularized the term 'AI Engineer.' Previously led developer tooling at AWS, Two Sigma, and three devtool unicorns (Netlify, Temporal, Airbyte). Former currency options trader. Curates the AI Engineer Summit, the top conference for AI Engineers. Founded Smol AI for LLM data pipelines.

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Omar Khattab

Stanford NLP / Databricks

Creator of DSPy, the framework for programming—not prompting—language models. PhD from Stanford NLP, advised by Matei Zaharia and Christopher Potts. Research Scientist at Databricks. DSPy has been adopted by both ML engineers and non-ML software engineers for building modular AI systems with automatic prompt optimization.

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João Moura

CrewAI

Co-founder and CEO of CrewAI, the open-source framework for building and orchestrating multi-agent systems. What began as a side project in late 2023 grew into one of the most widely used agent platforms, powering 475M+ automations per month across nearly half of Fortune 500 companies. Teaches multi-agent systems courses on DeepLearning.AI.

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Paul Gauthier

Aider AI

Creator of Aider, the leading open-source AI pair programming tool with 20,000+ GitHub stars. Previously CTO at Groupon and VP of Engineering at Geomagical Labs (acquired by IKEA in 2021) where he developed computer vision for AR applications. BS from Dalhousie, MS from University of Washington, PhD-level research at UC Berkeley.

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San Francisco Leader
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Jason Liu

Independent / 567 Labs

Creator of Instructor, the most popular Python library for structured data extraction from LLMs with 3M+ monthly downloads and 11k+ GitHub stars. Former Staff ML Engineer at Stitch Fix. Instructor was cited by OpenAI as inspiration for their structured output feature. Works as a freelancer solving business problems using structured LLM outputs.

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