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Dan Petrovic, Managing Director of DEJAN AI

Dan Petrovic

Managing Director, DEJAN AI · Brisbane, Australia

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Trains his own models to reverse-engineer how AI search picks its sources.

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Dan is the most aggressive practitioner-researcher in mechanistic interpretability of LLM search. He fine-tunes his own Gemma models to understand query fan-out and ships free tools anyone can use. Nobody else in the SEO world goes this deep.

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