Preface
preface.ai
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$23M
1 round on record
Latest round
$23M
Venture round · Apr 2021 · 5 yr ago
Team
11-50
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
10
+1 posted in 30 days
The money's age
Long since its last round
65 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
19/100
hiring for its size, in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Apr 28, 2021
Raised a round Venture round $23M · led by Engineers
Oct 2017
Website went live first capture in the Wayback Machine
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Apr 2021 | $23M | Engineers lead | forbes.com |
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How Preface hires
Truth index
D 46/100
Ghost roles
90%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
Preface scores D on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 10 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 90% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
News
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Return on Intelligence: The Preface to an Eight-Part Series on the AI Bubble rebecca powell
Preface to an eight-part essay series arguing that the AI bubble will burst not because AI is fake, but because AI is real enough to break the market
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Subtrace Resolve production issues in minutes, not months
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Preface over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
6
Postings analysed
3
Stack modernity
74/100
Languages
Python
Developer tools
Kong
Practices & domains
AI Agents
Prompt Engineering
Agentic Workflows
RAG
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
63/100
Growing
Open positions
10
1 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Management
100% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added Agile to stack
Sep 2026
Added RAG to stack
Sep 2026
Added Agentic Workflows to stack
Sep 2026
Added WhatsApp to stack
Sep 2026
Added Zapier to stack
Aug 2026
Added n8n to stack
Aug 2026
Added Prompt Engineering to stack
Aug 2026
Added Kong to stack
Aug 2026
Added AI Agents to stack
Aug 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Hong Kong
HQ
10 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Management, Education, Leadership
Shop G07, G/F - 2/F, Tower 535, 535 Jaffe Road, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong Island, HK
Jobs
≈ HK$47k – HK$109k per month (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Hong Kong
AI Agents
RAG
Agentic Workflows
Management
Agile
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≈ HK$30k – HK$67k per month (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Hong Kong
Python
Prompt Engineering
AI Agents
DevOps
Kong
Management
n8n
Zapier
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≈ HK$41k – HK$118k per month (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Hong Kong
Python
JavaScript
SQL
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Financials
Total raised
$23M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2021 | $23M | Details |