Lightning Rod: Training Data From News - Generate training data from the news, no manual labels
Instantly generate training data from real-world news, no manual labeling. Pick a topic (e.g. politics, sports) and criteria (e.g. forward-looking questions with binary labels) and we generate a labeled dataset for you.
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Lightning Rod: AI Forecasting API
Hi Product Hunt! 👋
I'm Ben, founder of Lightning Rod Labs.
Training data is the biggest bottleneck in AI. Great projects die because labeled data is too expensive, too slow, or too hard to generate at scale — especially for fine-tuning and evaluating LLMs.
Lightning Rod automatically generates LLM-ready training data from public sources (or your own) — no labeling or annotation required ⚡
From idea to dataset in minutes. Define your criteria and we generate labeled data from global news sources, public records, or your own docs.
Provenance in every row. Every record links back to its source, so you can audit exactly what went into your model.
Quality built-in. Automated scoring and filtering strips out low-confidence examples and outputs that don't follow your instructions.
It works. Our approach uses real-world outcomes to create scalable supervision. We’ve used this to beat frontier AIs 100x larger and to train domain expert AIs on everything from SEC filings to golf.
💻 Create your first dataset for free: https://lightningrod.ai
We'll be here all day to answer questions. Tell us in the comments what specific dataset you want to build — we'll help you get it running!
@bturtel I want to build a binary forecasting dataset, focused on clinical trial outcomes.
very solid product