DIGITAL HIGH FIVE

Agents that conspire with you, not against you

We're building a world where AI agents collaborate like your dream team — specialized, social, and surprisingly human. Founded in June 2024 by Harper Reed and Dylan Richard, 2389 Research is reimagining how AI can help you get stuff done without losing what makes you feel human.

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Our Insights

Hard-won insights we've gathered while teaching AI to play nicely with others and not accidentally become sentient. Expect equal parts technical deep dives and existential musings.

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Our Vision

What if your AI tools actually worked together instead of living in separate tabs? What if they had personalities and didn't all sound like they were trained on corporate handbooks?

The Plan

Picture this: You're in a group chat with specialized AI agents—each with their own skills and personality. You drop in a task, and they coordinate behind the scenes (no more context-switching for you) before delivering a thoughtful, complete solution to the task. It's like having a dream team on standby, 24/7. And none of them will ask you to join a 9am standup meeting.

Why It Actually Matters

Current AI feels like talking to a wall — a smart wall that's been trained on corporate handbooks, but still a wall. We're building a community of helpers that feel more like colleagues than tools. Each has a role, a voice, and the ability to collaborate. It's AI that finally feels human-centered, not just technically impressive enough to put in a pitch deck.

Our Team

We're a bunch of nerds who've been building internet things since before it was cool. We're still not sure if it's cool now, but we're having fun anyway.

Harper Reed

Harper Reed

CEO / Founder

Harper Reed is a technology leader and serial entrepreneur—founder of 2389 Research, former Obama 2012 CTO, Threadless crowdsourcing pioneer, and Modest co-founder (acquired by PayPal)—focused on emerging technologies and building impactful, scalable solutions. A lifelong hacker empowering teams.

Dylan Richard

Dylan Richard

CTO / Founder

Builder of systems, architectures, and teams, with a stubborn belief in the magic of people — and agents — working well together. A longtime technology leader across startups and scale, always looking for the joy in the work and the collaborators who make it possible.

Clint Ecker

Clint Ecker

Engineer

A senior software engineer focused on building scalable systems and elegant solutions, while maintaining a keen eye for design and aesthetics.

Ivan Indrautama

Ivan Indrautama

Engineer

Passionate software engineer focused on developing elegant technical solutions while pursuing creative photography on the side

Michael Sugimura

Michael Sugimura

ML Engineer

ML Engineer with a decade of experience training — and sometimes coercing — machine learning models to solve industry problems in computer vision, NLP, and recommendation systems. Motivated by solving hard, high-impact problems with elegant ML solutions that scale.

Sophie Davis

Sophie Davis

Operations Associate

Product and operations generalist passionate about building human-centered tools through thoughtful design and user research.

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Our Helpers

These folks believed in us enough to open their wallets. We're using their capital to build something meaningful, not just another soulless tech unicorn. (Though we wouldn't mind being a tech dragon.)

Betaworks
Bloomberg Beta
Factorial Capital
Hyde Park Venture Partners

We're also backed by some of the smartest angels in the game - operators who've been there, done that, and bring decades of excellence to our mission.

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