Poetic Raises $50M Series A to Automate the World’s Most Complex Enterprise Processes with Reliable AI
SAN FRANCISCO, June 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Poetic (formerly Forge), the company building software that “learns like AI but runs like code,” announced a 500M valuation led by Kleiner Perkins. Founders Fund, First Harmonic, and OpenAI also participated.
Product thesis
Poetic converts natural-language descriptions of complex enterprise workflows into deterministic, near-tokenless execution — targeting fraud investigations, transaction monitoring, compliance checks, and insurance reviews where error tolerance is near zero.
Customer traction
- SoFi: 99%+ quality executing fraud investigations end-to-end within five weeks
- AIG: Named customer on multi-hour insurance processes
- Fortune 500 clients report double-digit millions in savings
- 100% pilot-to-production conversion rate across engagements (company-reported)
Company metrics
Poetic reached an eight-figure run rate in 2025 with four employees. The company was founded by Markie Wagner in 2023 after ML engineering roles at Google and Waymo.
Use of funds
Capital will scale the forward-deployed engineering team, expand into new complex industries beyond financial services, and deepen deployments at existing enterprise customers.
Investor quotes
Leigh Marie Braswell (Kleiner Perkins): “What Poetic has built is genuinely different — a platform that can execute the complex, high-stakes processes that large enterprises actually run, with accuracy that exceeds what human teams can deliver.”
OpenAI participated as a strategic investor, signaling complementarity with the broader LLM ecosystem rather than direct competition.