Exclusive: Interloom, a startup capturing ‘tacit knowledge’ to power AI agents, raises $16.5 million in venture funding

Michael Polyani, the British-Hungarian philosopher, economist, and scientist, is perhaps best known today for coining the term “tacit knowledge.” His great observation was that a large part of what constitutes expertise in any given field is never written down. In some cases, it exists only as a kind of professional intuition that even the expert can’t fully articulate. “We know more than we can tell,” was Polyani’s famous catch phrase.

Today, tacit knowledge presents a challenge to companies...