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Overview
Scaled Cognition is a Mountain View AI model lab building “Super-Reliable Intelligence” for enterprise — focused on eliminating hallucinations in high-stakes agent workflows across financial services, healthcare, telecom, and insurance.
Flagship Product
APT (Agentic Pretrained Transformer) — conversational model architecture where actions and information are first-class objects, enabling policy-compliant agents with verifiable audit trails (not post-hoc explanations).
Platform includes agentic tooling, simulation/evaluation frameworks, and live agent monitoring.
Founders
- Dan Klein — Co-founder/CTO; UC Berkeley AI professor; co-founded Semantic Machines (acquired by Microsoft 2018)
- Dan Roth — Co-founder/CEO; former Microsoft Corporate VP Conversational AI
Recent Developments
- 2026-07-01: $100M Series A led by khosla-ventures; strategic participation from Genesys (2026-07-01-scaled-cognition-globenewswire-series-a)
- Already in production with Fortune 500 customers (company-reported)
- Post-money valuation reportedly $750–850M (secondary sources; unconfirmed by company)
Fortune 500 deployment claims are company-reported; independent customer verification pending.