Hobbes

Hobbes is a conversational AI agent that replaces the "book a demo" button with live, autonomous product demos that run on a company's website around the clock. It ingests a team's sales deck, call transcripts, documentation, and help center content, then takes a guided tour of the actual product to learn every screen, flow, and edge case. Before it handles a real prospect, it runs hundreds of buyer simulations across personas, industries, and objections, and it keeps learning from each live conversation it has. The launch is tied to a $6M round led by Foundation Capital, positioning Hobbes against the decades-old lead-capture form that forces engaged visitors to wait days for a human rep. The pitch to GTM leaders is concrete. One early customer had Hobbes close a deal end-to-end within an hour of going live, and the team says customer deployments are producing far more top-of-funnel conversations than a standard demo form, with qualified transcripts waiting for reps in the morning. Hobbes is built for B2B software teams whose website traffic outpaces their AE headcount, and it targets the specific moment when a visitor is ready to buy but the calendar link pushes them to next week. The company is based in San Francisco and founded by Chirag Kulkarni, who is also hiring across the team as part of the launch.