Brett Adcock's Hark launches Hark Pro, a free personal AI agent, a year before its first devices

What happened

Hark, the "personal intelligence" lab that Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock started in late 2025, released its first product, Hark Pro, on Oct 6, 2026. Hark calls it "the operating system for your life". It is a messaging-style app for iOS, Android and the web that:

• remembers what the user tells it and what it learns about them;
• suggests things to do before being asked (examples: noticing that money on a student's lunch card is running out and, if allowed, topping it up; spotting that a trip has a booked flight but no hotel);
• carries out tasks on the web with Handoff, Hark's computer-use agent, which runs on its own cloud computer.

Every feature is free. Paid plans buy more usage: $20 a month (2x) or $100 a month (10x).

Privacy. Hark's pitch is about trust. Logins and payment cards go into "Secured by Hark", an encrypted vault that the company says even it cannot see into. Passwords stay encrypted "all the way from the vault to the website". Users watch the agent browse in a small window. Hark's head of design, Abidur Chowdhury, told TechCrunch: "we're not here to like sell you ads and steal your data". He described its profiling of users as "task-related".

Models. Hark has not named every model behind Hark Pro. Handoff is Hark's own model. Hark says it is "independently verified to be the most performant computer use model in the world", without naming the verifier in the launch post. At the August preview Hark said Handoff was post-trained on top of an unnamed base model, with pre-training planned for later in 2026. Hark reported that Handoff topped the Online-Mind2Web human evaluation leaderboard and on average beat GPT 5.4 and Opus 4.8 on three browser benchmarks (company-reported). Its privacy policy says parts of the service are "integrated with third-party AI platforms" that help generate responses. TechCrunch noted that a model trained specifically for computer use is faster and cheaper, but may trade away the broader knowledge of a frontier LLM.

Hardware. It is still unseen. Hark promises an AI-native device in 2027 that Chowdhury calls "a product that's never ever existed before". AT&T, which invested in August, will provide cellular connectivity. TNW notes that Hark has not said whether Hark Pro is available in Europe.

Before the launch, Hark:

• announced a $700M+ Series A at a $6B post-money valuation (May 20, 2026);
• previewed Handoff (Aug 5);
• signed a multi-year NVIDIA compute partnership on Vera Rubin (Aug 27).

The Fast Company design feature could not be read and was not used as a source.

Why it matters

Hark Pro arrives in a crowded month for consumer "do-it-for-me" agents: Meta's Muse (Sept 8, same price ladder), OpenAI's dots (Sept 29) and Instinct, which raised money at a $10B valuation on Sept 28. Hark competes on privacy (no ads, a vault it cannot read), on letting users watch the agent work, and on owning the whole stack: its own computer-use model now, and its own devices from 2027. Its performance claims are so far company-reported.

Changelog

• 2026-10-07: created from Hark's announcement and privacy policy, TechCrunch and TNW (Fast Company blocked our fetcher).