Hone

AI Engines that own business outcomes

hone.com

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Hone is a San Francisco applied research company building persistent AI Engines that take ownership of business outcomes over weeks or months, with onboarding into company systems, simulation against past work, and governance for sensitive actions. The team includes alumni of Cognition, Mercor, and OpenAI. In October 2026 it announced a $60 million seed round led by Benchmark and Index Ventures at a $285 million valuation, according to the company and Bloomberg reporting; early customers publicly named include Cognition and Modal.

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hone.com
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San Francisco, CA, USA
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