Empromptu AI, a San Francisco-based startup focused on helping enterprises shift from static SaaS products to self-improving AI-native applications, has raised an oversubscribed $2 million pre-seed round to accelerate development of what it calls its Self-Managing Context Engine. The company said the technology is designed to allow AI features to manage, train, and improve themselves in production environments, with the broader goal of making AI deployments more reliable and maintainable at scale.
The financing was led by Precursor Ventures, with participation from Alumni Ventures, Founders Edge, Rogue Women VC, South Loop, and Zeal Capital, as well as angel investor Edith Harbaugh, a co-founder of LaunchDarkly. Empromptu framed the round as support for building infrastructure that allows existing software products to modernize in place, rather than requiring extensive rewrites to add AI capabilities.
Empromptu said its latest release introduces Infinite Memory, an Adaptive Context Engine, and Custom Data Models, which it described as components that help enterprises tailor AI behavior to their own business context rather than relying on generic models. The company said the system enables applications to train themselves, detect and correct accuracy drift automatically, and retain context over time, positioning these capabilities as usable by non-technical stakeholders.
The company also emphasized a focus on production readiness, arguing that many AI pilots stall before deployment due to reliability and maintenance challenges. Empromptu pointed to a recent MIT study estimating that 95% of AI pilots never reach production and contrasted its approach with prototyping-oriented tools, which it said can require significant rework for production environments. Empromptu said it embeds evaluation, optimization, and observability into each AI application, enabling enterprises to deploy AI-native features in days rather than months without rewriting core platforms.
Empromptu also made performance and adoption claims tied to its new platform direction, saying it can deliver production accuracy up to 98 percent and that more than 2,000 businesses across sectors, including SaaS, physical AI, cybersecurity, ecommerce, education, healthcare, HR, IT, and social platforms, are already integrating Empromptu into their systems.
The company positioned its Self Managing Context Engine as an early step toward more autonomous software, arguing that progress toward more advanced AI systems will depend on reliability, iteration, and tooling that helps systems understand their own limits. Empromptu said its long term vision is to build AI that can refine context, synthesize across information, focus deeply, and recombine ideas in ways that mirror aspects of human cognition.
KEY QUOTES:
“SaaS apps shouldn’t need a rewrite to become intelligent. They should be able to modernize in place with no glue code or guesswork needed—just self-improving logic alongside Provable AI that works with your own custom data models and your context,”
“As every company talks about incorporating AI into their business, we’re building the infrastructure that lets AI run itself safely, predictably, and profitably. This is the missing piece between today’s scripted prompts and tomorrow’s autonomous software.”
“SaaS apps shouldn’t need a rewrite to become intelligent. They should be able to modernize in place with no glue code or guesswork needed—just self-improving logic that works with your own custom data models and your context,”
“As every company talks about incorporating AI into their business, we’re building the infrastructure that lets AI run itself safely, predictably, and profitably. This is the missing piece between today’s scripted prompts and tomorrow’s autonomous software.”
Shanea Leven, Founder and CEO of Empromptu
“The next generation of intelligence won’t come from bigger models, it will come from systems that know when to narrow in and when to zoom out. That’s how we move from static prompts to software that actually learns,”
“Empromptu AI is innovating but in a way that is actually useful to businesses immediately. Every company will eventually have an AI, but Empromptu will be the standard that helps businesses get there first.”
Charles Hudson, Managing Partner and Founder of Precursor Ventures
