Artificial intelligence startup Hark unveiled its first product, Hark Pro, on October 6, 2026. It’s not just another chatbot that answers questions. Hark Pro is a “proactive” digital assistant that sees what you need before you ask it and performs tasks online for you. The company describes it as “an operating system for your life.”
Hark is the brainchild of American entrepreneur Brett Adcock, founder of humanoid robot company Figure AI. The app is already available for free on the web, iOS and Android, with the company's first devices expected in 2027.
What does Hark Pro do?
Users connect their email, calendar, and other accounts to Hark Pro. From there, the assistant organizes the information and suggests what to do. The home screen displays ready-made action buttons: check in for a flight, pay a bill, approve a delivery, or upload receipts for expense reimbursement. According to Fast Company, Hark Pro can also detect and resolve calendar conflicts, find a dentist who accepts your insurance and book an appointment, or notify you that you rented a car at the wrong airport.
Next to the familiar chat are the so-called “panels”: small information tables that show, for example, the balance of a credit card, the progress of an order, the status of a flight or the kilometers you ran last week. The system learns the user’s preferences over time and adapts the home screen accordingly.
The most impressive features
The heart of Hark Pro is the Handoff, which the company introduced in August. When a user asks for something, Handoff opens a computer in the cloud and uses the Internet as a human would: pressing buttons, filling out forms, and completing purchases. According to The Next Web, it can handle up to 36 browsers at once, for example to compare multiple dentists or hotels together.
A second point that stands out is transparency. The user sees in a small window how the agent moves through the web pages, so that he can check that he is doing the right thing. For payments, the final confirmation remains with the user. Hark claims that Handoff achieved the highest score recorded in the OM2W benchmark test for internet use, surpassing the corresponding models of Anthropic, OpenAI and Google, as it stated in its announcement. This claim comes from the company itself.
The app is designed by Abidur Chowdhury, the designer who introduced Apple’s iPhone Air and who moved to Hark as head of design. As he explained to Gizmodo, today’s chatbots resemble old computer command screens, and Hark wants to do for AI what the mouse once did: a more natural way to interact.
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Prices and availability
Hark Pro is offered in three versions: a free version with limited usage, a $20 per month subscription with double the usage, and a $100 per month subscription with ten times the usage. The app is also available in Greece. As The Next Web notes, European payments legislation requires strong customer authentication, which makes it difficult for an AI agent to make purchases without a human.
What gap does it want to fill in the market?
Most AI assistants today wait for a question and give an answer. Even those that can perform tasks often stop midway and ask the user to continue. Hark is banking on two differences: that its assistant takes initiative without being asked, and that it completes the task from start to finish. “The world is full of AI assistants, but you would never hire an assistant who doesn’t know how to use a computer,” Adcock has said.
The competition is already fierce, however. Meta launched its Muse assistant in the US a few weeks ago, with the exact same prices, while OpenAI is preparing its first device, designed by Jony Ive's studio, for 2027. Chowdhury responds that the Hark Pro "may not be faster than Muse, but it will give a better result," according to TechCrunch.
Privacy and security
To work, Hark Pro needs access to email, calendar, files, and even credit cards. TechCrunch points out that this raises very real cybersecurity questions: an account with so many connections becomes an attractive target for attackers. Hark states that it does not sell user data, does not share it with advertisers, and that the user can delete it whenever they want. SecNews' technical team recommends that, before giving access to such an assistant, enable two-factor authentication on all connected accounts and start with a few, non-critical services.
Who is Brett Adcock and what other companies does he own?
Brett Adcock is one of the most well-known tech entrepreneurs in the US. In 2013, he co-founded Vettery, a machine learning-based job search platform, which was acquired by Adecco Group for $100 million in 2018. In 2018, he co-founded Archer Aviation, which develops electric “flying taxis” and went public on the New York Stock Exchange in 2021. In 2022, he founded Figure AI, which makes general-purpose humanoid robots, and in 2023, Cover, a security company that uses AI to prevent gun attacks on US schools, according to Wikipedia.
He founded Hark in late 2025, initially putting in $100 million of his own money. In May 2026, the company raised more than $700 million, at a valuation of $6 billion, led by Parkway Venture Capital. The funding also included investment arms from major chip companies, such as Nvidia, AMD Ventures, Intel Capital and Qualcomm Ventures. With the Hark Pro already on sale and the first devices coming in 2027, the company is showing that it wants to compete with the biggest players in artificial intelligence.
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