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Overview
Markie Wagner is founder and CEO of poetic, a Thiel Fellow and former ML engineer at google and waymo. She founded Poetic (originally Forge) in 2023 after years observing enterprise AI fail in production environments.
Background
- ML engineer at Google, then Waymo — witnessed AI systems fail on real operational complexity
- Ran Delphi Labs, an ML consultancy deploying AI for large enterprises
- Built Poetic’s proprietary language converting natural-language workflows to deterministic execution
2026 Funding
Closed 500M valuation (June 10–12, 2026) led by kleiner-perkins with openai, founders-fund, first-harmonic (2026-06-10-poetic-series-a-prnewswire).