Co-Founder & CEO @EspaLabs. Previously @forethought_ai (acq. @Zendesk). Tweeting about AI, tech, entrepreneurship. Sometimes physics, hip hop, and parenthood.
San Francisco, CA
Joined May 2014
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That awkward moment when you realize giving up is just not in your DNA. #backonthegrind
Espa is now generally available! Personal AI agents are here, and I sat down with @BloombergTV @RomaineBostick to discuss what will decide which ones people actually let into their lives.
Our goal is to be the most trusted AI assistant for life and work.
Get three months of Espa Pro on me:
espa.ai?code=deon-3d09
Deon Nicholas retweeted
Two months ago, we sent something we built to space for the first time.
Mission Asimov wasn’t about proving the whole thesis in one shot. It was about earning the right to take the next one.
Today, we’re sharing what we learned from Flight-1 and the new capital that will help us keep flying, building, and learning faster.
This company started with a pretty audacious question: what if the best place to manufacture the materials that power modern civilization isn’t on Earth?
We’re still early. But for the first time, we’re starting to answer that question with flight hardware and real data.
Couldn’t be prouder of this team.
Welcome to the Exoindustrial Age. 🚀🏗️💿
Wow, filing this under “great people doing mind-blowing things” 🤯
Congrats to my friend @AviatorAshley and the whole @BesxarFoundry team for completing your first launch with @SpaceX and your $10.3M Seed round!
With data centers and energy becoming real bottlenecks and possible environmental hazards due to the rise of AI, is there a world where we can get this compute cheaper, faster, and safer, by having data centers or manufacturing in space?
Incredibly proud of the @cognition team for their $2B Series E at a $48B valuation.
Just like self-driving cars, we’re now entering the dawn of self-driving software. And @cognition is leading the charge.
👏
@ScottWu46 is known for being a coding genius, and a phenomenal leader. Built out a world class team + culture, and a generational company. He was the first founder I ever angel invested in, and a constant reminder of why you always bet on good people chasing big problems. 🥲🚀
Proud of my friend @michlimlim and @tryflint! They just launched Flint Ads Agent, which optimizes Google Ads spend for you!
I absolutely need this 👀.
Introducing Flint Ads Agent: we optimize your Google Ads spend for you.
Our agent figures out what’s costing you conversions, using our comprehensive data and optimization engine. Then, it executes the fix for you, and learns from the results.
@BoomPopHQ 10x’ed conversions with it.
Anyone else feel like they could use an extra day of the week just for life admin? 🙋🏾♂️
Or just use espa.ai lol
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#entrepreneur #dad #adulting #ai
A paper I published on the geometric foundations of the theory of relativity. Exploring physics lately, starting from ground zero en route to learning Quantum Computing over the next 5-10 years.
Forcing myself to "learn in public" via blogs and proofs.
arxiv.org/abs/2606.25993
Deon Nicholas retweeted
A new adventure of my talented son in law will be exciting to watch! Connects to your email, calendar, etc. Much needed for folks like me who have a trouble on staying on the top of their emails let alone tasks. Way to go @EspaLabs! The future is here!
Today I'm launching @EspaLabs, the AI executive assistant for everyone.
Honest explanation for why: I still forget to follow up on my own emails 😅.
Deon Nicholas retweeted
Been using @EspaLabs daily.
Every morning: “Who am I meeting + why?” ~60 sec later: a clean brief pulled from my email + calendar.
Congrats @DeonNicholas + team on the funding
Today I'm launching @EspaLabs, the AI executive assistant for everyone.
Honest explanation for why: I still forget to follow up on my own emails 😅.
Product-market fit doesn’t come from guessing.
It comes from talking to users — deeply, repeatedly, and with better questions.
AI won’t replace listening to users.
It helps you scale it.
Deon Nicholas retweeted
@MarkieWagner explaining to @TBPN how Poetic is able to run multi-hour complex processes for F500s with 99% accuracy in production, all with minimal token spend.
This is so cool. New class of software that learns like AI but executes with deterministic accuracy of code. Very proud to see @PoeticHQ @markiewagner launch!
Introducing @PoeticHQ: a new AI system that executes complex multi-hour tasks with 99%+ accuracy and 10x fewer tokens than agents.
We raised $50M at $500M from Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, First Harmonic, and Genius Ventures to build AI that does complex work inside Fortune 500 companies without hallucination.
While code is too brittle, agents are too unpredictable. The work that runs the global economy - anti-money laundering, fraud investigations, underwriting - needs extreme accuracy.
So we built a new kind of software that pairs the flexibility of AI with the predictability of code.
When the world stays the same, Poetic runs fixed code: fast, cheap, identical every time. When the world changes, Poetic uses AI to regenerate its approach and find its way back to the objective.
In one year, we went from zero to an eight-figure run rate as a team of four.
Since then, we’ve scaled the team and executed the highest-stakes processes at AIG, SoFi, and Chime. At SoFi, a large US bank, Poetic reached 99%+ quality on fraud investigations in five weeks.
Proud to be an early angel investor in Poetic, building a new class of software that learns like AI but runs like code. They launched out of stealth today with $50M Series A at a $500M valuation from Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, First Harmonic, and OpenAI.
Congrats Poetic! 🤩
Poetic, an AI startup, is emerging from stealth with $50 million in funding from OpenAI and other investors to help businesses streamline complex tasks, ranging from insurance underwriting to financial compliance. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
