Introducing @PoeticHQ: a new AI system that executes complex multi-hour tasks with 99% accuracy and 10x fewer tokens than agents. We raised $50M at $500M from Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, First Harmonic, and Genius Ventures to build AI that does complex work inside Fortune 500 companies without hallucination. While code is too brittle, agents are too unpredictable. The work that runs the global economy - anti-money laundering, fraud investigations, underwriting - needs extreme accuracy. So we built a new kind of software that pairs the flexibility of AI with the predictability of code. When the world stays the same, Poetic runs fixed code: fast, cheap, identical every time. When the world changes, Poetic uses AI to regenerate its approach and find its way back to the objective. In one year, we went from zero to an eight-figure run rate as a team of four. Since then, we’ve scaled the team and executed the highest-stakes processes at AIG, SoFi, and Chime. At SoFi, a large US bank, Poetic reached 99% quality on fraud investigations in five weeks.

Tonight, I'm having dinner with a bunch of high-performing @Rippling team members (something we do every year). So I asked Rippling AI to give me a dossier on everyone I'm seated with, and the quality of this output makes me giddy...

After a rewarding journey at @harvey, I’m excited to share I'm joining @kleinerperkins as a Partner to back the next generation of AI-native founders! When I joined Harvey as the first PM, we were just 20 people with 5 customers quietly building in a world that still ridiculed GPT wrappers. Thank you to @winstonweinberg and @gabepereyra for showing that with a relentless focus on the customer and a constant dissatisfaction with the status quo, nothing else matters. I remain incredibly bullish in @winstonweinberg, @gabepereyra, @aniqued, & @sgurumur's leadership to take the company to the next level, raising the bar for the whole application layer. Company building is when you learn the hard lessons that don't show up in any pitch deck; it’s chaotic but addictive. And I’ve had the privilege to do it early at three AI decacorns at three different layers of the stack: Harvey (apps), @scale_AI (data), and @shieldaitech (physical). The pattern I’ve observed is that great founders don't just build great products, they paint the AI transformation vision for their industry, redefining how work actually gets done. The winners of this cycle will combine unique domain insights, customer-centric decision making, and nimble, talent dense teams all with the goal of becoming the canonical deployment of AGI in their space. We are still only at the beginning of an industrial revolution much bigger than the last, and the opportunities are infinite. That conviction in the future, while respecting the history, is what drew me to Kleiner Perkins. @mamoonha, @ilyaf, and the team are backing the founders seizing that opportunity right now, including Harvey, @p0, @tryprofound, @JoinNooks, @getavoca and more. And they’re doing it with both the ferocious conviction and intellectual humility this moment requires. I’m excited to dive in with this team and the founders they’ve backed. If you're an AI-native founder in any domain, I'd love to chat! There’s so much left to build. Full news here: kleinerperkins.com/perspecti…

One of the more surprising things I’ve noticed while doing interviews w/ high-growth private & public companies: the CEO’s desk in the bullpen. Some examples: @nejatian CEO of Opendoor @adcock_brett CEO of Figure @adampbry CEO of Skydio @Keller CEO of Zipline @mansourtarek_ CEO of Kalshi @qasar CEO of Applied Intuition @scottgmorton CEO of Revel

idk who will win this case but @ashleevance just won "most connected tech journalist" with this latest text dump