Today Hone launches Engines: AI that owns business outcomes. Chatbots give answers. Agents do tasks. Engines deliver outcomes, and we hold them responsible for creating real value, measured in actual dollars instead of tokens or vibes. You point it at a business metric, and the Engine figures out the rest. It onboards itself, builds the necessary agents, skills, and memories, collaborates with the right people, and gets better with experience. From AI leaders to global enterprises, our customers have already used Engines to: • Uncover millions in procurement savings • Optimize product funnels • Manage credit risk • Increase qualified pipeline in new territories • Accelerate implementations and improve account management To scale this impact across the economy, we’ve raised a $60M seed led by Benchmark and Index with participation from Elad Gil, Hanabi, Definition, Diffusion, Lux, SV Angel, and Align. AI’s raw capabilities are far ahead of the value it creates in the real world, and Engines will help close the gap. Here’s how they work…

Announcing Hone Intelligence has become abundant. Yet the world looks remarkably similar to how it did five years ago. With every model release, the gap between what frontier AI can do and the economic value derived from it widens. Closing the gap requires re-organizing work around organizational outcomes, not individual tasks. Hone builds AI that creates, orchestrates, and improves agents and software continuously to own organizational outcomes over weeks and months. We are ex-founders and early core contributors to Cognition, Mercor, Ramp, and OpenAI. We obsess over real-world value, not theoretical benchmarks. Our core beliefs on closing the gap in the thread below.