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

OpenAI, Kleiner Perkins, and Founders Fund backed the round.

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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.

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Many users congratulated Poetic on raising $50M at a $500M valuation for its deterministic enterprise AI platform, while a few raised concerns about job losses or questioned the approach to business logic.

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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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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

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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Amjad Masad@amasad

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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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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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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"Leigh Marie" Braswell@LM_Braswell

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

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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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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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"Leigh Marie" Braswell@LM_Braswell

@_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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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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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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gracie redfern@gracekwillie

@markiewagner @PoeticHQ poetic work, indeed! congratulations on the launch and the countless hours of work behind the scenes

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khushi suri@khushkhushkhush

@LM_Braswell @markiewagner @PoeticHQ witnessing parts of this has proven to me that you are the lebron james of venture

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ₕₐₘₚₜₒₙ@hamptonism

@markiewagner @PoeticHQ Am I hallucinating or is this a banger?

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Sholto Douglas@_sholtodouglas

@markiewagner @PoeticHQ 🚀🚀

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