Cloneable Raises $4.6M to Clone Expert Worker Knowledge With AI
Raleigh-based startup Cloneable has secured $4.6 million in seed funding to turn retiring workers’ expertise into autonomous AI agents before that knowledge disappears for good.
The round was led by Congruent Ventures, with First In, Overline, Bull City Venture Partners, and St. Elmo Venture Capital joining in. Total funding now stands at $5.35 million since the company’s 2023 founding.
The concept behind Cloneable’s agentic AI platform is simple but powerful: shadow a human expert on the job, capture their real-time decisions and workflows, then replicate that expert worker knowledge as a scalable AI agent. No clean data or coding required.
The founding team Lia Reich, Tyler Collins, and Patrick Lohman came up with the idea after being deployed during California’s 2019 wildfires to inspect infrastructure for drone companyPrecisionHawk. At aPG&E command centre, Reich watched hundreds of workers sift through footage while only a handful of veterans knew what to flag. The inefficiency was impossible to ignore.
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The numbers back up the urgency, For every new worker entering the energy sector, 2.4 experienced ones are retiring and energy demand set to double by 2050. A task that takes a human engineer eight hours takes Cloneable’s agentic AI under two minutes, and where a person tops out at 5,500 utility poles annually, the platform processes up to 3 million.
Cloneable launched its field inspection product in February 2025 and grew ARR 100x by year-end. Customers include American Electric Power, Southern California Edison, and Perdue, which is extending the expert worker knowledge model to livestock and food supply.
The new funding will drive expansion into utilities, construction, rail, mining, and agriculture industries where, as Reich puts it, no one has yet combined field data collection with agentic automation at the scale they need.z
