Story Behind ConteXeed

Driven by Research. Grounded in Practice. Built for Alignment.

Built from First-Hand Friction

We built ConteXeed AI after running into the limit of today’s agent systems ourselves.

At one point, we spent a full week shaping a harness around coding agents until it became genuinely usable. That week changed our view of the stack. The system had already seen the signals it needed: repeated constraints, corrections, preferences, and boundaries. None of them became durable behaviour.

So we started asking how human feedback could change the harness itself. We built the first version on our own development workflow. The result was immediate: familiar failures dropped, repeated reminders shrank, and trust rose. The system became easier to work with over time.

That insight became the company: the next frontier in agent systems is harness that learns.

More importantly, this capability should extend far beyond AI and IT teams. Most serious professionals do not want to engineer prompts, patch workflows, and supervise brittle agents. They want a system that fits their workflow, learns from feedback, and becomes smoother with use. That is what we are building.

Built with Agent-Native

We are building this from unusually close range. Our founder holds a PhD in AI and has worked on post-training and agent systems inside frontier model teams. His work has been publicly cited by leading labs (e.g. OpenAI and Mistral) and incorporated into their frontier model development. Our technical team consists of AI researchers from leading UK companies, with past work recognised through Spotlight papers at ICML-2023, ICML-2024, NeurIPS-2023, and NeurIPS-2025. We pair that technical depth with commercial leadership across sales and business development.

We also already operate this way ourselves. **Our team is agent-native**. Much of our coordination runs through agents operating over a shared harness layer, where work, communication, context, and feedback remain explicit, visible and reusable. That is how harness learning becomes real: feedback lands on the system, carryover becomes possible, and repeated work gets smoother over time. We are building harness learning from inside the workflow, not around it.

Built to Travel Further

We believe this should travel far beyond our own workflow.

The long-term opportunity is to make agent systems genuinely usable in the industries where work is complex, repeated, and costly to coordinate. That is where current systems still fall short: too much context has to be restated, too much supervision still sits with the user, and too little feedback actually carries over.

The next step for us is to work with the right partners to close that gap. On the investor side, we are looking to work with people who share the view that long-term value in agent systems will come from reliability, governance, and accumulated fit through use. On the industry side, we want to work with a small number of partners outside AI and IT whose workflows are serious enough to expose where today's systems still break.

Our goal is simple: to turn agent systems into long-term collaborators.

Get in Touch

Have a question, or interested in working together? We’d love to hear from you.

shawnguo.cn@gmail.com