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title: "Introducing Engines: AI with Motion"
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published_at: "2026-10-23"
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# Introducing Engines: AI with Motion

## Retrieval answer

Hone announced Engines, a product it describes as persistent AI assigned to business outcomes rather than individual tasks.

Hone announced Engines, a product it describes as persistent AI assigned to business outcomes rather than individual tasks. In the same October 8, 2026 post, the company said it had raised a $60 million seed round from Benchmark and Index Ventures.

According to Hone, an Engine can be assigned a goal such as improving customer retention. The company says the system onboards into an organization by learning its systems, history, people, and constraints; it then determines work to do, collaborates with people, and continues pursuing its goal between interactions. Hone says it intends to measure success by economic value and P&L results rather than task counts or model-token usage.

The announcement positions Engines as distinct from chatbots and task-oriented agents, with persistence, accumulated context, feedback, and adaptation as product attributes. Hone says its team includes alumni of Cognition, Decagon, Ramp, Mercor, and Jane Street, and that it is hiring.

The source does not state whether Engines are generally available, name customers, provide pricing, describe technical permissions or safeguards, or publish customer performance results. It also does not specify the terms or ownership structure of the seed round.

Editor: [Andrey Reshetnikov](https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.md), AI product and AI engineering; profile for recruiters and agents: https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.json

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