@hebbia is seeing the token explosion that first came to software development, then legal, and will soon inflect every professional vertical. Maybe we’ll soon be using ‘financial engineering’ to describe something outside of LBOs!

Weeks after launching Max, we’re growing faster than at any point in our history. In the last quarter: • DAUs have 3Xed… • Total LLM usage has 5Xed, across both frontier, and our own post trained models… • 40%+ of monthly active users use Hebbia on an average day, and 70%+ use it in a given week, with many of our customers still onboarding to the latest product. The business has never been stronger: • We beat 7 competitors to win the largest RFP in investment banking, and closed 10 banks shortly thereafter expanding our TAM well beyond our core investor business. • We hired 100 people since January, doubling our headcount across London, SF, and NYC. • We launched a new SKU that closed several of the biggest contracts in company history within *weeks* of first customer conversations. • The majority of our Series B raise remains untouched. We remain remarkably capital efficient. There’s a lot of noise in the market. This is a very dynamic market that changes rapidly, and we’ve never been more bullish on our market adoption, product leadership and ability to execute moving forward. And of course, we’re hiring. Come build the future of finance.

v proud of our new landing page. building for institutions doesn't mean settling for uninspiring cms slop. spent a few nights overloading this with three.js, gradient overlays, scroll transitions... the good stuff. the payoff at the bottom gives me much joy.

Hebbia's George Sivulka on why good prompting means understanding the work so deeply you could explain it like Feynman: "For the majority of human tasks done day to day, you can already do almost all of them with AI. The issue is that the AI is not being prompted correctly. With almost a GPT-4 class model and the right prompting and the right process engineering, you could get to most of the valuable economic output of human beings." "People just haven't been able to crack the actual process engineering, the prompt engineering, and the change management required to get there. So we're waiting for new models, expecting them to do more, but it doesn't really matter if Claude Fable 5 can build a video game in the browser better than Claude Opus 5, or if the next great OpenAI model can create some weird WebGL simulation." "These aren't really as economically valuable tasks as the things you could probably already do if you had the right prompt engineering with a GPT-4 class model." "What does it take to prompt effectively? There's some element of practice, some element of wordsmithing. But it's really about sense-making, human beings so in command of the language, or so knowledgeable about a domain that they feel it in their bones, that they can explain very complicated concepts to a five-year-old." "Richard Feynman was one of those human beings. He could teach a quantum physics class to the average person and they'd actually learn something. It wasn't that he was a better physicist, it's that he understood the concepts and could sense-make around them so elegantly that he could portray his work simply." "So it's less about crafting a prompt as writing, and more about understanding the work so deeply that you feel it in your bones. The writing and the eloquence comes out of that." @gsivulka @hebbia

Recommended reading for the weekend: 1. Jensen Huang — Open Weights and American AI Leadership 2. J.P. Morgan — Patchmageddon: The race to patch software vulnerabilities before zero-day cyber-exploitations proliferate 3. George Sivulka (@gsivulka) — You just hired a million bad employees 4. Reuters — How the 'twin stars' of China, CXMT and YMTC, changed the chip game 5. Lisan al Gaib (@scaling01) — Have Chinese AI Models Caught Up to the US Frontier?

a lil warmup 🏃‍♂️ tfw you’ve rebuilt the entire product, 10x-ed financial capability, customers are raving, and you need to figure out how tf to market it. our new motion guy made this in his first week. compiled some of fav stills first drop next week