About
AI that understands your organization
We build tools that turn your institutional documents into a living knowledge system — powering conversations, document creation, and quality review grounded in your actual work.
Why we built this
Knowledge-intensive organizations — colleges, research institutions, nonprofits, consultancies — produce enormous volumes of critical documents. Strategic plans, accreditation reports, grant proposals, policy frameworks. These documents represent years of institutional thinking.
But when it's time to write the next one, teams start from scratch. The knowledge exists — it's just trapped in folders, inboxes, and shared drives where no tool can reach it.
Hone Studio changes this. Upload your documents, and the platform reads, indexes, and understands them. Every AI conversation, every generated draft, every quality review draws on your real work — with citations, not hallucinations.
We don't believe your data should subsidize someone else's AI model. Every client gets their own database, their own infrastructure, their own deployment. Your documents never touch another client's system.
Founder
Todd Burner
Founder & CEO
10+ years working in privacy and security at major technology companies. Led privacy-preserving technology deployment across 28 US states during the COVID-19 pandemic, navigating the intersection of cryptography, public health policy, and user trust at national scale.
Previously founded a privacy-first social network, building an engineering team from alumni of top tech companies and designing data-minimization architecture years before privacy became a competitive feature.
Brown University, 2009.
Company
Hone Labs LLC is based in the Berkshires, Massachusetts. Founded in 2025, the company is small by design — focused on building the right product for organizations that take their data seriously.
We started with higher education because the need is acute: FERPA compliance requirements, accreditation cycles, and decades of institutional knowledge that deserves better than a shared drive. But the platform is built for any organization where documents are the work.
See what Hone Studio can do
Book a demo and we'll walk you through the platform with your organization's actual documents.