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 👇
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 👇
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
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.
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
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!
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.
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*
@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!