A year ago, George Sivulka cold-reached me. That single message kicked off what would become the most thorough, deliberate career decision I've ever made.
This wasn't a quick "let's grab coffee and see if there's a fit" situation. This was a year-long process where I got to diligence every part of the business: the metrics, the customers, the technology, the vision.
I've done this before. Years ago, I spent months with Lauren Myrick, the CEO and founder of Found, before deciding to leave my role at Uber. When I first met Lauren, Found was pre-seed stage. By the time I joined as one of the first ten employees, they'd raised their Series A. I watched that company grow from Series A to Series C. That experience taught me what to look for: the signals that separate companies that will define categories from those that won't.
So when I say leaving Found for Hebbia was a huge decision, I mean it. I needed to be really sure.
What I found over that year convinced me that this is where I needed to be.
The Leader Who Gets It
George is relentless. I don't use that word lightly. Over the past year, I've watched him execute with an intensity that's rare even in Silicon Valley. But here's what really matters: he's relentless and humble. He's building this company with an openness to learning, growing, and changing as this market evolves that I've rarely seen in founders.
Most CEOs at this stage are either too rigid in their vision or too scattered in their execution. George is neither. He knows where we're going, but he's smart enough to adapt how we get there. That combination of clear vision with tactical flexibility is exactly what you need when you're building in a market that's literally being invented as we go.
The Technical Challenge That Actually Matters
Last month alone, we processed more documents than we had in the entire history of the company. We're talking exponential growth in complexity and scale.
We're investing heavily in our research arm. We're working on accuracy improvements, RLHF for generating end-user artifacts, fine-tuning for finance-specific models. These aren't incremental improvements. We're on the cusp of unlocking entirely new efficiencies in how AI completes GDP-accretive tasks.
And we're moving beyond the Matrix. Our customers' needs have grown increasingly complex, and we're redefining fundamental paradigms of AI interfaces. Financial analysts who had only used ChatGPT are now processing tens of thousands of private documents and public filings with complex end-to-end workflows they’ve built in Hebbia every day.
The recent focus on finance has been particularly exciting. Investment banking and private capital are perfect use cases for our ability to ingest, understand, and act on massive document sets. We're making traditionally tedious tasks like diligence and investment research not just easier, but fundamentally different. We're even generating new signals to inform investment decisions and outperform the market.
The Customers Who Validate Everything
I spent the last few months meeting with Hebbia's customers. When you hear a managing director at a top-tier bank tell you that Hebbia has fundamentally changed how they work, that's not a testimonial. That's validation.
Humans are going to turn to AI as their first step for every task going forward. Between our unique presentation layer for complex workflows and the accuracy of our retrieval agents, we're positioned to be the tool that all workers use. This isn't hypothetical. It's already happening.
The Board and The Timing
I want to thank George, Mike Volpi, and Alex Immerman for their trust in bringing me on. Mike (from Index and now Hanabi) and Alex (from Andreessen) aren't just investors. They're partners who've seen this movie before. Spending time with them, understanding their vision for the company, seeing their conviction that we have the right team, the right leadership, and the right timing to capture this market: that sealed the deal for me.
They gave me unprecedented access to everything I needed to make this decision. Every metric, every customer conversation, every strategic discussion. That level of transparency isn't just rare; it's a signal of how this company operates.
What's Next
I'm running both tech and product, and we're building something special. We're opening our SF office, and we're going to rapidly grow our engineering, product, and design organization over the next year. We're hiring across all levels and disciplines.
This is a massive moment for Hebbia. The trajectory isn't just continuing. It's accelerating. The problems we're solving are hard, meaningful, and directly impact how millions of humans will do their jobs in the future.
Join Us
If you're an engineer who wants to work on genuinely difficult problems, if you're a product person who wants to redefine how an entire category of workers do their jobs, if you're a designer who wants to create interfaces for AI-native workflows that don't exist yet: we should talk.
Check out our careers page or reach out to me directly. We're building the future of AI applications, and we need the best people to do it.