Convictional

Supply Chain · AI Agents
$50.1Mtotal raised · 3 rounds on record
$34.5Mlatest round · Series B · Jan 2022 · 4 yr ago
1backers · Garage Capital
200+team · employees, estimated range

Overview

Convictional is shutting down. Essay by Roger Kirkness · Aug 3, 2026.

Funding and backers

Total raised
$50.1M
3 rounds on record
Latest round
$34.5M
Series B · Jan 2022 · 4 yr ago
Team
201-500
employees, estimated range
Backers
1
Garage Capital
The money's age
Long since its last round
57 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Aug 3 Shut down Convictional is shutting down · convictional.com Jan 19, 2022 Raised a round Series B $34.5M · SEC Form D Sep 23, 2021 Raised a round Series A $6.7M · PRNewswire Apr 27, 2021 Raised a round Venture round $8.9M · SEC Form D 2018 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Hacker News stories
1
best: 2 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Series B Jan 2022 $34.5M — SEC Form D
Series A Sep 2021 $6.7M — PRNewswire
Venture round Apr 2021 $8.9M — SEC Form D
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity CONVICTIONAL, INC. SEC Form D
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Roger KirknessExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Christopher GrouchyExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Alexander MeyerExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
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Financials

Total raised
$50.1M
Latest round
Series B
Funding rounds
3
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Series B 2022 $34.5M Details
Series A 2021 $6.7M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2021 $8.9M Details

People

Roger Kirkness
Executive Officer, Director
Christopher Grouchy
Executive Officer, Director
Alexander Meyer
Executive Officer
Ali Rowghani
Director
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Connections

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Shared investors1
Garage CapitalVia a fund
151 portfolio companies: Ollama, Absorb, Vinnauto and 148 more

News

Blog 3 months ago
Convictional is shutting down
Announcing that Convictional is shutting down and the path for customers to migrate their data
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Blog 4 months ago
Convictional Launch - Summer 2026
Convictional is reintroducing itself and launching the first product built to solve goal alignment in organizations, keeping teams mission-aligned by design as AI agents take over task work.
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Blog 4 months ago
Organizational Health in the Age of AI
This writing explores the concept of organizational health and how it has changed with AI, from its definition to its importance, and how it can be applied tangibly within a real organization in this day and age.
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Blog 4 months ago
Benchmarking Collaborative Agent Alignment
Exploring multi-agent collaboration and goal alignment by varying their communication tools. We introduce our work on GoalBench, a turn-based game played by a team of agents operating a software startup with shared and individual goals.
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Blog 5 months ago
The Butterfly Effect in Applied AI and Human Subjectivity
I ran an experiment to measure the 'noise' in our AI deep research pipeline: why the exact same question rarely gives you the same report twice. Here is why that variance is a fundamental limit of computing, and observing that human subjectivity created 2
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Blog 6 months ago
Are We Pigeons?
On humanity, the role of humanity, and why being human first is important for companies in the future.
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Blog 6 months ago
The Power of Knowledge Bundles: Just-in-Time Compression for Better AI Deep Research
I ran an experiment to see if 'knowledge bundles' assembled on-the-fly could replace pre-computed knowledge graphs. Here is why this dynamic approach beat our baseline, and how smaller models kept the costs in check.
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Blog 6 months ago
Souls Only
On the value of human-authored communication in an AI-saturated world, and why companies need new ways to signal that the words came from a person, not an AI model.
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Blog 7 months ago
Aligning Motives and Goals
Explores the difference between motives and goals and their relationship to AI agent alignment.
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Blog 7 months ago
Decision Struggle
An essay that discusses the notion that in order for groups to preserve knowledge, they must struggle with decisions and record that struggle somewhere widely accessible.
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
Waterloo Canada
HQ
200-500 est. staff