HOWDY TRAVELER

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, we're reimagining how AI can actually help you get stuff done without selling your soul to the algorithm overlords.

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THE 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.

Brain Dump to Blog Post

Clint Ecker March 12, 2025

Turn messy coding sessions into shareable learning resources with an LLM-powered workflow that helps you research, build, and document as you go.

Engineering Learnings

Experimenting with GraphRAG: Adding Knowledge Graphs to RAG Pipelines

Michael Sugimura March 6, 2025

Blending knowledge graphs with RAG pipelines unlocks richer, scalable insights—bridging the gap between granular retrieval and holistic understanding.

GraphRAG Knowledge Graphs

Self-Learning LLM Agents: A Fractal Approach to Domain-Specific Knowledge

Michael Sugimura January 8, 2025

Exploring how agents can autonomously build and evolve their own domain expertise—scaling from generic LLMs to self-learning, specialized assistants.

Human-AI Collaboration

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THE FUTURE

The 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.

THE HUMANS

The 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. (And no, we don't have matching jumpsuits. Yet.)

Harper Reed

CEO / Founder

Building the future through technology and innovation

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

CTO / Founder

Building Remarkable Teams & Scalable Solutions

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

Engineer

Engineering the future of tech and style

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

Ivan Indrautama

Engineer

Building innovative solutions through code and creativity

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

Michael Sugimura

ML Engineer

Neural net and GPU enthusiast

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

Operations Associate

Streamlining systems & shaping experiences

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

THE INVITATION

Join The Inner Circle

We're not quite ready for everyone yet, but we'd love to have you on the inside track. No secret handshakes required (yet).

THE 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.

THE CONNECTION

Get In Touch

Want to chat? We're real humans who answer emails (most days). No complicated protocols required.

Mailing Address

1111B S Governors Ave STE 20779
Dover, DE 19904 USA

(Yes, it's a real place, not a virtual construct)

Direct Line

+1 (814) 666-2389

(Actually answered by humans, not AI... for now)

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