Hark Pro presents a full-screen interface that combines a central chat dialog, a feed of suggested actions, and visualisations called “panels” that act as mini-dashboards for topics the user cares about. The background adapts to the local weather and time. Users grant the assistant access to their digital life – email, calendar, hard drive, credit cards – and it carries out tasks on their behalf, from approving expenses to booking flights.
Abidur Chowdhury, the former Apple employee who leads design at Hark, demonstrated the product. He noted that one of the hardest parts for users is coming up with useful tasks for the assistant. He pointed to an example where the AI recognised that a colleague needed to renew a car registration at the California DMV and handled the process through the agency’s website.
A distinctive design choice is a small window that shows users how the agent navigates the web, a step most AI assistants omit. Chowdhury said this is meant to build trust that the agent is acting correctly.
Hark’s pitch rests heavily on privacy. “We’re not here to like sell you ads and steal your data,” Chowdhury said, contrasting the startup with Meta and OpenAI. When asked about the kind of profiling those companies do, he said Hark’s understanding of users is “really like task-related – it’s really about how Hark can help take something off your plate and be useful.”
The company sees itself as building a user interface for AI rather than pursuing artificial general intelligence or curing disease. Chowdhury invited comparison with competitors such as Muse, Instinct and Dots, arguing that while Hark Pro may not be faster, “it will give you a better result, and it will work end-to-end instead of asking you to…”