Poetic

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Overview

Poetic (formerly Forge) is a San Francisco enterprise automation startup founded by markie-wagner in 2023. The company builds software that converts natural-language workflow descriptions into deterministic, near-tokenless execution — positioning as “learns like AI, runs like code.”

Recent Developments

• 2026-06-12: $50MSeriesAat$500M valuation (poetic-50m-series-a)

• 2026-06-10/12: Closed $50MSeriesAat$500M valuation led by kleiner-perkins; openai, founders-fund, first-harmonic participated (2026-06-10-poetic-series-a-prnewswire)

• SoFi: 99%+ quality on fraud investigations end-to-end in five weeks (company-reported)

• AIG: Named customer on multi-hour insurance processes

• 2025 metrics: Eight-figure run rate, profitability, four employees, 100% pilot-to-production conversion (company-reported)

Product Focus

Targets high-stakes enterprise workflows where traditional agentic-ai agents fail in production:

• Fraud investigation and neobank-fraud monitoring
• Compliance checks and regulatory workflows
• Insurance underwriting and claims review

Related

• markie-wagner
• kleiner-perkins
• sofi
• aig
• enterprise-workflow-automation
• enterprise-ai-reliability
• intelligent-process-automation

Sources

• 2026-06-10-poetic-series-a-prnewswire
• 2026-06-10-poetic-kleiner-perkins-perspective
• 2026-06-10-poetic-thenextweb
• 2026-06-12-poetic-50m-series-a