Tevon Strand-Brown

Front line @poeticHQ, an AI system for the most complex workflows

[Tevon Strand-Brown @strandbrown]

Helping us win with the best people <3 @minney_cat helped us bring on an incredible eng at @PoeticHQ who I now get to work with every day

[Minn @minney_cat]

In the age of AI, human ingenuity becomes even more valuable. The likes of @elonmusk @spacex, @nvidia, @anthropic, @OpenAI were founded in the U.S. for a reason.

Over the years, I've met thousands of talented founders, engineers, and technologists, and many left everything familiar for the chance to build something new.

So we sat down to hear their stories.

First Landing 👇

[Minn @minney_cat]

In the age of AI, human ingenuity becomes even more valuable. The likes of @elonmusk @spacex, @nvidia, @anthropic, @OpenAI were founded in the U.S. for a reason.

Over the years, I've met thousands of talented founders, engineers, and technologists, and many left everything familiar for the chance to build something new.

So we sat down to hear their stories.

First Landing 👇

[Tevon Strand-Brown @strandbrown]

@mommylarp @PromptLLM We take advice from humans without success all the time

[Tevon Strand-Brown @strandbrown]

@m2jr @markiewagner @traestephens We're here to break some patterns!

[Packy McCormick @packyM]

In November 2022, @markiewagner wrote Choose Good Quests, then she went dark to work on her own.

Today, she's launching Poetic, a new class of software that's adaptive like AI, reliable like code.

This is her first public essay since CGQ, on why & how.

https://t.co/bhpxhiKjVY

[Tevon Strand-Brown @strandbrown]

@minney_cat @markiewagner Thanks for helping us bring in great people @minney_cat !

[SIKAN @notsikan]

Today’s state-of-the-art AI has "jagged intelligence": it can prove new math theorems and win gold at the IOI, yet still struggle to run critical business processes reliably at scale.

We're taking a different approach to build with AI for the enterprise - Instead of blindly throwing tokens at the problem, we dynamically generate and combine deterministic programs with LLM reasoning based on the task at hand.

This results in us having the only AI system in the world that can execute long running business processes with multiple 9s of accuracy.

[Tevon Strand-Brown @strandbrown]

@hamptonism @markiewagner @PoeticHQ Its a banger

["Leigh Marie" Braswell @LM_Braswell]

Markie is one of the most prescient people I know on AI, and I've been lucky to have a front row seat since the beginning. @PoeticHQ hit an 8-figure run rate and became profitable in 2025 with just 4 people. At a moment when token ROI is under scrutiny everywhere, @markiewagner and the Poetic team have already built a viable solution.

KP blog with the story behind the investment - https://t.co/pCbkgJD3cn

[Tevon Strand-Brown @strandbrown]

We need to make these processes legible. Thoughts of legibility here: https://t.co/yRvhZhq5jN

[Tevon Strand-Brown @strandbrown]

I joined Poetic to help solve, for me, the clearest bottleneck to AI integration into our critical industries - most of a firm’s governing rules are locked in people’s heads.

Happy to announce ourselves, our new name, and our Series A today!

[Markie Wagner @markiewagner]

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.

[Tevon Strand-Brown @strandbrown]

@paulg @amaldorai Seconded, I just went, awesome store. Picked up the most compact fountain pen I’ve ever seen

[Tevon Strand-Brown @strandbrown]

@pitdesi Sounds like Caltrain to Bay to Breakers, just better in every way

[Tevon Strand-Brown @strandbrown]

@pitdesi Holy hell that sounds so fun

[Tevon Strand-Brown @strandbrown]

@rahulvohra @rrhoover For sure same question. Whoop has started strength training input, but if I don’t need to tell it what I’m doing, 100% worth it

[Tevon Strand-Brown @strandbrown]

@paulg @Jo_Minimis Yup, this is such obvious whataboutism. It’s going to kill us (the left)

[Celine Halioua @celinehalioua]

our dog longevity drug LOY-002 has earned FDA safety approval

we now have 2 of 3 major sections of our New Animal Drug Application complete (!)

if (when) we earn FDA manufacturing approval, Loyal will launch the *first FDA-approved lifespan extension drug*

[Tevon Strand-Brown @strandbrown]

Some thoughts on how being "pretty good" can be a curse for actual growth. https://t.co/W2slEa0lU3

[Tevon Strand-Brown @strandbrown]

@eastdakota Who knows, maybe we can replace $8m in Italian revenue in 24 hours?

[Tevon Strand-Brown @strandbrown]

@eastdakota Just signed up for a paid cloudflare plan.

Your free plan is beyond generous, way more than I need, its so good I feel the need to pay for it.

Keep up this work!