Brett Adcock's Hark Launches Hark Pro AI Agent That Shops, Books and Pays Bills for You Ahead of 2027 Devices
Summary
Brett Adcock's startup Hark has launched Hark Pro, an AI agent that shops for groceries, books cars, pays bills and refills a child's lunch card via web, iOS and Android, free with $20 and $100 monthly tiers, ahead of the company's first hardware devices arriving in 2027; the system uses a cloud platform called Handoff that runs up to six browsers simultaneously, logs into millions of sites, and keeps card details and passwords in an encrypted vault Hark says even it cannot access.
Key Points
- Brett Adcock's Hark launches Hark Pro, an AI agent that buys groceries, books cars, pays bills and refills a child's lunch card, free with $20 and $100 monthly tiers, a year before the company's first devices arrive in 2027.
- Hark Pro runs on the web, iOS and Android, with a cloud system called Handoff that remembers instructions, juggles up to six browsers at once, logs in to millions of sites, and stores card details and passwords in an encrypted vault Hark says even it cannot see inside.
- Hark raised $700M at a $6B valuation two months after leaving stealth, with Nvidia, AMD Ventures, Intel Capital and Qualcomm Ventures in the round, plus $100M of Adcock's own money; design chief Abidur Chowdhury, a former Apple lead on the iPhone Air, says the devices should be portable and useful in the home and workplace, and AT&T is supplying cellular service.