--- title: 'About Pydantic - Our Mission, Team & Story' description: >- How our hunger for reliable digital products fueled our ambition to turn a Python open source project into a leading agent framework & observability platform. canonical: 'https://pydantic.dev/about' --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://pydantic.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. ## Querying This Documentation **warning**: agent query parameters (`goal` and `organization`) not included. 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