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AI startup Poetic launches with $50 million at a $500 million valuation, claiming its deterministic workflows use 10x fewer tokens

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Poetic is stepping out of stealth with a $50 million Series A that values the company at $500 million, backed by OpenAI alongside Kleiner Perkins and Founders Fund, to sell AI that tackles multi-hour regulated workflows like fraud checks and compliance by blending fixed code runs with dynamic regeneration.

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"Leigh Marie" Braswell@LM_Braswell#1387inTech

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://www.kleinerperkins.com/perspectives/poetic-turning-enterprise-procedures-into-evolving-software/

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.

11:41 AM · Jun 10, 2026 · 17.1K Views
Token Efficiency

Where the efficiency edge might matter most

The startup says its hybrid setup delivers over 99 percent accuracy on those long tasks while burning through 10x fewer tokens than standard agents, which could matter for teams already wrestling with high inference spend in insurance and banking.

Investor Signal

What the backers reveal about demand

OpenAI joining Kleiner Perkins and Founders Fund on this round highlights investor appetite for reliable AI inside heavily regulated back-office processes, though details on current customer traction or rollout timelines remain limited in public reporting.

Sentiment

Many users congratulated PoeticHQ on its $50M raise at $500M valuation for high-accuracy enterprise AI tasks, while a few called the accuracy claims marketing exaggerations that could accelerate job losses.

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Super interesting approach to enterprise agents. Congrats on the launch @markiewagner

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.

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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.

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Sholto Douglas@_sholtodouglas

Markie organised my favourite event in the last year - and is even better at building companies - absolute killer

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.

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Beff (e/acc)@beffjezos

Civilization and businesses are ultimately a bunch of software (prompts/instructions) that runs on humans.

We call these instructions "process", and it is a layer of abstraction that can be optimized in a substrate-independent way.

Really interesting approach to agentic engineering from this team. Bullish.

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.

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My favorite thing about working in venture is the long-term nature of the relationships you have with founders who are making history. I’ve known @markiewagner for > 5 years, and among teaching me many other things, she taught me what “RPA” stood for. This led to a Sep 2021 ML infra blog post I wrote when I first started in VC, and years later led to @kleinerperkins leading the Series A of Poetic and me joining the board. Extremely fortunate to partner with the seemingly future-seeing Markie & the S-tier @PoeticHQ team! Couldn’t be more excited about what’s to come.

Markie Wagner@markiewagner

Leigh Marie has been fighting by our side years before the company was even started.

5 years ago, we started talking about the idea that would eventually become Poetic. LMB's original blog post here on it as a relic of the past: https://leighmariebraswell.substack.com/p/startup-opportunities-in-machine

Over and over, she has done impossible things to set us up to win.

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Linus@thesephist

Markie is one of my favorite people. I have learned so much from her perspective that is equal parts soulful clarity about what computing should aspire to be for humans, and the demanding complexity that emerges at the highest scales of human collaboration.

Congrats @markiewagner & team :)

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.

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Not Jerome Powell@alifarhat79

@markiewagner @PoeticHQ Can someone from your team please get in touch with me? I would like to flag someone, if possible.

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greg@greg16676935420

@markiewagner @PoeticHQ I, for one, am grateful that you are cracking down on scammers. This is good for me. thank you

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Markie Wagner@markiewagner

Thank you Bloomberg, for covering our story.

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Wall Street Mav@WallStreetMav

@markiewagner @PoeticHQ I thought AI was going to wipe out all our jobs? So far it’s only been Hollywood, h1b’s and scammers.

The world is healing.

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@markiewagner @PoeticHQ Has been incredible working with you @markiewagner & team @PoeticHQ ! More big things to come!!

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Karina@karinanguyen

Super inspired by Markie and the team’s work 🔥🔥

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.

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Loewen Cavill@loewenkc

@markiewagner @PoeticHQ Iconic is a dramatic understatement. This team is unreal stacked. Can't wait to see how fast this ship continues to accelerate.

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Markie Wagner@markiewagner

If you want to teach AI to do real work inside the world’s top companies, join us.

http://poetic.com/careers

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Tiffany Fong@TiffanyFong

@markiewagner @PoeticHQ Fraudsters are in shambles rn

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Will Robbins@whrobbins

@markiewagner @PoeticHQ @PoeticHQ has as much soul as it has compute.

I’m so proud of the unbelievable focus and intention behind everything you can see!

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@_sholtodouglas Will never forget witnessing the Battle of the Bridge ⚔️

Sholto Douglas@_sholtodouglas

Markie organised my favourite event in the last year - and is even better at building companies - absolute killer

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Marvin von Hagen@marvinvonhagen

@markiewagner @PoeticHQ tf is this trend of naming everything after postscript coffee blends

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Poetic@PoeticHQ

We are Poetic.

And we are excited to deepen our partnerships with the numerous global companies that have partnered with us in the most critical areas of their businesses.

From here, we want to enable every business and person to leverage the power of AI while being able to run their systems and processes accurately, reliably, and deterministically. There is a new way of building a business. There is a new form of software.

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.

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Sumer Sao@sumersao

@markiewagner @PoeticHQ the tech is seriously cool. incredibly clever ideas behind it and even better execution. congrats Markie!!

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