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Advancing the frontier of PERSUASION.
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If you’re an RL researcher, AI engineer or an Elite Marketer - we’d love to get in touch with you.
Announcing our first eval Copywriting Arena (WIP)
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credits: @ghostmotionai
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That’s the hardest cleanest EARNED money ever paid to buy an airline ticket.
HE deserves it.
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Caring is the moat, you should feel visceral pain when things are bad or broken and stop at nothing to fix them
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When you find yourself stressing about the competition or thinking the market is saturated, remember that high performance is extremely rare. Most people are fat, sick, in stacks of debt, pessimistic, addicted to their phone, and cry like babies. There’s zero competition. You can literally achieve any big goal you want while everyone else just dreams about it.
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Single biggest determinant of early success and to move at rocket pace is this. You don’t need people to make you second guess everything. Hire wisely!!
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Somewhere between personal agents booking flights and frontier labs solving Navier-Stokes sits a large, quiet gap. Inside most organizations, AI still produces no measurable return.
Five months ago I founded Hone with Moritz Stephan and Oliver Brady. Today we’re announcing our $60M seed led by Benchmark and Index Ventures, and launching AI Engines: persistent agents that own business outcomes.
Most AI products serve individual productivity. They assist with tasks, answer to no outcome, and get a fraction of the freedom or accountability you’d give a model this smart. The few that run at the organizational level are usually lengthy custom builds. Today it is surprisingly hard for a business to point frontier intelligence at its most critical outcomes.
An Engine is built for exactly that. You point it at a business outcome. It onboards itself, builds the agents, skills, and memories the job needs, works with the right people, and gets better with experience. It doesn’t produce output. It produces results.
As a team, we believe AI should be held to a higher standard. We measure our work not by benchmarks, but by the business results we drive for customers in the real world.
Intelligence is no longer scarce, and the economy should grow like it. That happens when subject matter experts stop doing the work and start building the systems that do it. Watch the demo to see how Hone enables that.
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…
🇮🇳 Starlink will help the least-served in India 🇮🇳
. @Starlink is essential for India, and I hope it will be deployed soon. Its ability to connect directly to devices through satellites could fundamentally expand how internet connectivity is delivered. Also, we need many options, not just to have a choice, but to break the duopoly and ensure fair competition, so that the internet remains not only accessible but also efficient. I request the government to allow it to function in India ASAP.
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If someone’s presence makes you feel smarter, and not because they’re dumber, but because your brain quite literally works better when engaging with them, then they are a catalyst, asset and a treasure. Like two connected jigsaw pieces, together you see the bigger picture.
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Replying to @vikpai @ReferRush
This is why game theory is so important .. and why randomness in discounting strategy..
Also d2c founders should build a Discount dependency score and segment audience in their CDP/CRM .. and target audience should be which has lower discount dependency and make Sales exclusive to them Only.
When you announce a sales for everyone you lose information asymmetry advantage.
Founders should study game theory or hire applied game Theorist.. instead of bogus growth hacker ( majority of them are nothing but suckers with no rigorous decision making skills)
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One thing I miss about the older internet is that it actually felt like you were exploring something. Now you open the same five apps every day and let an algorithm decide what you’re going to see. It’s more advanced, but somehow feels smaller.
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At @referrush we work a lot with Duroflex
Mattresses are a strangely elegant middle-class product.

























