We raised $3M on one observation: Agents learn on your dime. And forget. Every run, your agent figures out the same APIs, makes the same calls, hits the same failures. Because nothing saved what worked. We built Rote by @modiqoai to fix this. Point it at any API. Rote reads the spec and builds a surface your agent can call: auth, endpoints, schemas. That's the adapter. When your agent finishes a task, Rote saves the exact calls that worked. That's the flow. Config in. Code out. Runs on your machine. Nothing to watch over. Agents stop starting from scratch. Teams stop paying for the same work twice. Install → modiqo.ai

Check out my latest article: Outcomemaxx, not tokenmaxx linkedin.com/pulse/outcomema… via @LinkedIn

Modiqo is attacking one of the least glamorous problems in AI agents: what happens after a workflow finally works once. The company raised $3M in pre-seed funding co-led by Heavybit and Seligman, with Irregular Expressions participating. Modiqo builds Rote, a local execution layer that captures successful AI-agent runs and turns them into deterministic, reusable workflows. The production problem is reliability. Agents can complete a task once, then rediscover the same APIs, prompts, scripts, and edge cases the next day. That burns tokens, bloats context, and makes operational behavior harder to audit as models and APIs change. Rote sits underneath the agent loop. It connects agents to APIs without server infrastructure, sidecars, or SDKs, records what each agent executed, and preserves working paths as durable assets teams can repeat, inspect, and improve. Quick facts👇 ● founders: Chetan Conikee ● total capital raised: $3M Pre-seed ● Investors: Heavybit; Seligman; Irregular Expressions The interesting test is whether production agent reliability comes from making agents think harder, or from knowing when they should stop thinking and reuse what already worked.

Chetan is one of the real hackers in this space. Exciting to see him launch their stuff. Can’t wait to start using it.

nice launch dude!

Read more about our investment in @modiqoai here: heavybit.com/press/heavybit-…

Half the start-ups in "AI" right now "fix" problems that were created by "AI" itself.

Rote by @modiqoai tackles the challenge of consistent performance for AI agents by crystallizing agentic actions into deterministic code. Congratulations to @conikeec and the team and welcome!

Congrats to @conikeec and the Modiqo team on the launch of rote. The core idea is practical: ✅ when an agent successfully completes a workflow, capture what happened and turn it into something the team can reuse, inspect, and govern. ✅ getting an agent to work once is not the same as keeping it working after models, APIs, permissions, and business rules change. 🙌 modiqo.ai/?utm_source=gradie…

Most teams have already let agents touch systems no one fully audited. @conikeec will be at Write-Only Code Summit on May 7 to discuss real agent governance. Sold out. Join the waitlist → luma.com/write-only-code-sum…

Excited to moderate this discussion at Write-Only code summit with @mipsytipsy and other luminaries

Excited to be discussing Agent Dark Factories tomorrow luma.com/2026-04-director-pl… .. Will be dropping hints on what we are building ..

It's gonna be a lot of fun! We have @mipsytipsy from @honeycombio @DynamicWebPaige from @GoogleDeepMind @conikeec and @timsehn from @DoltHub - all in a room of Directors, VPs and CTOs discussing how to empower our new agentic overlords within the SDLC. I'll also be dropping some insights from @sschillace Deputy CTO @Microsoft and @denen CTO @Vistaprint from the research for my upcoming O'Reilly book on scaling AI Adoption in Engineering... Last couple of hours to register luma.com/2026-04-director-pl…

Agentic software engineering: - How do I get agents to generate quality code? - How can I automate the verification of the generated code? - How can my team build a robust software factory to accelerate velocity? - The first 20% is easy - how can I help the rest of my product, engineering and QA org to grok and use a software factory to deliver production code autonomously? If you're a DirectorPlus engineering leader in SF with an org of 50 and interested in scaling agentic engineering within your org, join us on Wednesday April 29th, 6-9pm in SoMa/Embarcadero. Speakers include @mipsytipsy @DynamicWebPaige and @conikeec - and I'll be sharing what I've learned from conversations with hundreds of engineering leaders as research for my upcoming O'Reilly book on Scaling AI Adoption in Engineering. scalingaibook.com/ Apply to attend: luma.com/2026-04-director-pl…

NEW: Astronaut Reid Wiseman shares a video of ‘Earthset’ that was taken with his iPhone “This is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye…” Wiseman said. This has to be the greatest iPhone video of all time.

Announcing the full Write-Only Code Summit lineup 🔥 If you're navigating what software development looks like when agents are doing the work, this is the room to be in. Save your spot: luma.com/write-only-code-sum…

Serial entrepreneur @conikeec will be joining us for Write-Only Code Summit on May 7. He's bringing together some of the sharpest operators in enterprise agentic governance for an unfiltered conversation. Last day for early bird pricing. Register before midnight luma.com/write-only-code-sum…