Cloneable, an AI automation company focused on infrastructure operations, announced the launch of its agentic AI platform alongside a $4.6 million seed funding round led by Congruent Ventures, with participation from First In, Overline, St. Elmo Venture Capital, and Bull City Venture Partners. The funding will support the company’s expansion across infrastructure-heavy industries and further development of its platform.
The company is addressing a growing challenge in critical infrastructure sectors, where decades of institutional knowledge are at risk of being lost as experienced workers retire. This knowledge gap has become a bottleneck for maintaining and modernizing infrastructure across industries such as energy, telecommunications, construction, and agriculture.
Cloneable’s platform captures expert knowledge and translates it into specialized AI agents capable of replicating complex workflows at scale. These agents can automate back-office processes by observing how experienced operators perform tasks using existing software tools, enabling organizations to scale expertise without requiring extensive retraining or system overhauls.
At launch, the platform includes purpose-built templates for energy sector workflows such as make-ready engineering, permitting, and joint use, delivering operational value in as little as 24 hours. The system is designed to integrate seamlessly with existing workflows, allowing companies to deploy new applications quickly from data capture to execution.
The company builds on its earlier field platform, introduced in 2025, which streamlined workflows such as pole inspections for utility companies. This platform improved safety, inspection speed, and data quality, and has been adopted by dozens of customers including utilities, telecom providers, engineering firms, and agribusinesses. With the addition of Cloneable Agent, the company now supports workflows spanning from field operations to back-office execution.
Founded in 2023 by Lia Reich, Tyler Collins, and Patrick Lohman, the team brings more than a decade of experience building technology for industrial data capture, including work in the commercial drone industry and enterprise systems for large-scale operations.
Cloneable is targeting a wide range of infrastructure-intensive sectors, including public utilities, energy, construction, rail, mining, agriculture, and manufacturing. The company aims to provide a unified solution that combines field data collection with agentic automation, addressing a gap left by point solutions that fail to scale across complex industrial workflows.
KEY QUOTES
“Everyone’s watching AI reshape office work. We’re watching something quieter and more consequential. The engineers who run America’s grid, its telecom networks, its construction projects are retiring, and what they know is retiring with them. That knowledge was built over 30-year careers, living in the heads of the best people in the room. Cloneable exists because that expertise is too valuable to lose, and because we finally have the technology to deploy it at a scale these industries have never seen.”
Lia Reich, Co-Founder And CEO, Cloneable
“The $30T US economy relies on infrastructure that’s aging faster than we can maintain it. The real bottleneck isn’t just dollars, it’s decades of uncaptured industrial knowledge. The result is infrastructure that never gets built, grids that never get hardened, an industrial base that never gets modernized. Born from a decade of lived experience in industrial data capture, Cloneable’s vertical AI agents represent a fundamentally new category to manage our most fundamental industries.”
Eliza Cushman, Partner, Congruent Ventures
“We’re asking aging infrastructure to carry a modern economy, and we’re still managing it with fragmented tools and tribal knowledge. That gap has a real cost. What Cloneable has built, from field capture through back-office execution, is the kind of operational continuity this industry has needed for a long time.”
Tate Stricklin, CEO, Texas Area Telecom