Poetic, formerly known as Forge, announced that it has raised a $50 million Series A round at a $500 million valuation. The financing was led by Kleiner Perkins, with participation from Founders Fund, First Harmonic, and OpenAI. The company said the funding will support the expansion of its forward-deployed teams, accelerate growth into additional industries, and bring its platform to more of the world’s largest enterprises.
Poetic has developed a new class of software designed to automate complex, high-stakes business processes that traditional software and AI agents have struggled to handle. Rather than relying on autonomous agents, the company uses a purpose-built programming language that enables operators to define workflows in natural language while delivering deterministic execution. According to Poetic, the approach achieves 99% accuracy on processes that companies have been unable to automate for decades, while significantly reducing costs compared with traditional AI agents.
The company said it is already working with some of the world’s largest financial services organizations and generated double-digit millions of dollars in savings for Fortune 500 customers through automating processes such as transaction monitoring and dispute investigations. Poetic reached an eight-figure revenue run rate in 2025 with a team of only four employees.
At SoFi, Poetic said it achieved more than 99% quality while executing fraud investigations end-to-end within five weeks. At AIG, the platform reportedly reached more than 99% accuracy on a complex process that previously required significant manual effort.
With the new funding, Poetic plans to expand beyond financial services into other industries with highly complex and dynamic workflows. The company said it has achieved a 100% conversion rate from pilot projects to production deployments.
KEY QUOTES:
“Right now in AI, there’s too much attention on quick demos and shiny objects, and not enough on outcomes. We built a new kind of software that learns like AI but runs like code, so the hardest work in your business finally gets done reliably, allowing your business to evolve faster and operate at a scale that was previously impossible.”
“For us, we’ve had a 100% pilot to production conversion rate. Our technology works, and we hire the best of the best, because we’re not here to run pilots. We’re here to transform businesses.”
Markie Wagner, CEO and Founder of Poetic
“In just weeks, Poetic was able to execute many of our fraud processes end-to-end, all while improving quality metrics and the member experience. With auto-decisioning, members get access restored right away, instead of days. As we’ve scaled across the business, we’ve seen 100% process adherence, even in our most complex compliance investigations.”
Anthony Noto, CEO of SoFi
“Markie is one of the most prescient founders I’ve encountered on AI, and I’ve had a front row seat since the beginning. What Poetic has built is genuinely different, a platform that can execute the complex, high-stakes processes that large enterprises actually run, with accuracy that exceeds what human teams can deliver. The fact that they were able to automate at the largest companies with the highest requirements is a reflection of how deeply the product works. And they’ve done so with one of the strongest teams, leaders from Palantir, UiPath, Ramp, Scale, Retool, and many more.”
Leigh Marie Braswell, Partner at Kleiner Perkins
