Introducing Kos
We gave AI its own computer, software licenses, identity in the org chart, and pointed it at the most overworked backoffice in America.
Today we're introducing Kos. The world's first virtual finance employee, purpose built for the operations teams behind America's re-industrialization. Datacenters, power plants, defense, space, factories, and the contractors making it all happen.
How Kos Works
There's no app to open. Kos is literally a full virtual human. You interact with Kos the same way you would anyone at work. Email. Teams. Slack. Video conference. Phone call. Forward an invoice, ask a question over chat, hop on a Zoom.
Kos completes real finance and operations workflows. Complex invoice reviews (like 800 page payapps against thousand page GMP contracts). Purchase orders. Cash application. Bank reconciliation. Cash forecasting. Lender draw requests. Utilities billing. The month end close. It does this using the same software your team uses, with its own license seats. Excel. Word. SharePoint. Google Drive. NetSuite. No migrations needed. Kos has granular RBAC controls tied to its identity, with full audit logs.
When you want Kos to do something new, you teach it the way you'd train any new hire. Share your screen on a video call. Walk through the workflow. Kos asks clarifying questions, then shares its screen back and replays the work on a new task.
And just like any hire on your team, Kos gets better over time. It learns from feedback in real time, self-corrects, and improves its precision with every workflow it completes. The more your team works with Kos, the sharper it gets.
Why Now
Trillions of dollars are flowing into the physical infrastructure that will power humanity's transition to superintelligence,and revitalize American industry. That money moves into the defense sector from the government, and from lenders to developers to general contractors to service providers to equipment manufacturers for AI infrastructure. At every step there are invoices, purchase orders, lender draw requests, and utility bills that have to be reviewed, reconciled, and processed with precision and a relentless, neverending speed, every month.
A single pay application for a single datacenter building can run 800+ pages. The construction contracts governing it are thousands of pages. Every few weeks these documents land on someone's desk and get reviewed line by line. In spreadsheets. Over email. On weekends.
For a long time this worked. Growth was sub-10%. Manual processes were fine. Nobody was scrambling. That's over. Infrastructure spending has gone vertical and the finance teams behind this capital are talented and overwhelmed. CapEx / Construction, inventory, and Utiltiies accounting is a niche skill. The talent pool is tiny. You can't hire fast enough.
The largest bottleneck to superintelligence is making the backoffice efficient enough to process all of these dollars.
Who We Are
Kos is already processing invoices for the largest and fastest growing defense and infrastructure companies in America.
We're Tanuj and Mani. We met at Stanford as graduate researchers under Sachin Katti. Tanuj spent his career in IT, datacenters, industrials, and hardware, and previously founded Spot AI, which scaled to over 1,000 enterprise customers. Mani is an International Olympiad medalist, earned his PhD at Stanford, published leading AI research at Microsoft Research, and built in Azure's product org.
We started Kos because the companies building America's future deserve a backoffice that can keep pace with their ambition.
Financing
We raised $12 million in inception capital co-led by 8VC and XYZ, with participation from MVP Ventures and Launch Search Partners. We deliberately brought on investors and shareholders who have lived the pain we're solving. Keith Taylor was CFO at Equinix at the largest datacenter company in the world for 27 years. Heather Paduck is CFO at STACK, one of the fastest growing developers today. Matt DeNezza was CFO at Crusoe, the first gigawatt-scale neocloud. Sachin Katti sits at the center of the AI compute and energy buildout at OpenAI and formerly was the CTO of Intel. This is our cap table we’re accountable to, and people who know when we're getting it right.
Meet Kos
We'd love for you to meet Kos.
