Why does an owlrepresent an AI company?
The Eyes
Seeing wisdom
The Wings
Alluding to growth
The Name
Bold & courageous
The "Hu"
The hooting of an owl
I designed this owl myself. If I was going to build with AI technology, I wanted it grounded in something real. Natural, universal, human wisdom. Not abstraction. Not geometry. Nature.
"Huzi" means bold and courageous in some cultures. In others, it means "the bearded one." And yes, I have a beard. The alliteration of Hey Huzi felt like a place you'd go for honest answers. And when you say it out loud, the "Hu" sounds like the hooting of an owl.
It all just worked together.
Written by
Eric Post
Founder & Chief Architect
The person behind the owl, the products, and the philosophy. This is the story in his own words.
The spark.
From 2020 to 2022, I was making a documentary about the lockdowns, the riots, the unrest. Everything that was happening. It was a dark and violent couple of years. The kind that makes you question what you're doing with your time and whether it matters.
When I came out the other side, I knew I wanted to do something different. Something big and beautiful. Something that empowered people instead of tearing them down.
Then one evening, my daughter was struggling with her homework. I couldn't help her. I didn't know the material. So I pulled up an AI tool, and together we worked through it. She got it. I got it. And something clicked.
"I just wanted to do something big and beautiful and be part of empowering people and lifting up humanity."
Eric Post, Founder
That homework moment became the seed. Not because AI solved a math problem, but because it showed me what's possible when technology meets someone exactly where they are. No judgment. No gatekeeping. Just help.
That's what Huzi became. A place where real estate professionals, mortgage brokers, and title companies can meet AI on their own terms. And use it to become something more than they were yesterday.
What's in a name?
Every product we build started as an idea with a meaning behind it. Click each one to hear the story.
SparkPad
Where it all began.
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Canvas
Paint your business.
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Halo
The network effect of doing things right.
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Satori
Sudden clarity.
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On being imperfect.
There's a race happening right now to make AI perfect. Perfect outputs. Perfect predictions. Perfect automation. And I think it's missing the point entirely.
What I learned making a documentary about some of the most turbulent years in recent memory is that human fallibility isn't a bug. It's a feature. The mistakes we make as individuals are the same mistakes we make as a society. And those mistakes are what create growth.
"A wildfire is painful in the moment. But it's necessary. Perfection does not exist, so why try to avoid our fallibility?"
That belief runs through everything we build. We don't make AI tools that pretend to be perfect. We make tools that meet imperfect humans where they are and help them grow from exactly that spot. Not by replacing their judgment, but by sharpening it.
The race to make everything flawless is a race to make everything the same. We'd rather build something that's honest, useful, and human. Even if it's a little rough around the edges. Because that's where the real value lives.
Hear us think out loud.
Hey Huzi... The podcast where we say all the things we've wanted to say about the things worth talking about.
Hosted by Eric Post & Mo Naboulsi · 17 episodes and counting
Read The Empty Room.
Companies started rushing toward AI with one question: how do we go faster? Speed became the strategy. Efficiency became the edge. Optimization became the obsession.
But I kept asking a different question: now what? When everybody can do things fast, efficient, and leveraged with AI, what actually separates you? Speed and efficiency aren't a competitive edge. They're table stakes.
The real edge lives in how you serve your consumer. The relationship. The brand. The understanding of what people expect from a company that's leveraged by AI, and the trust between them.
The Empty Room is where I wrote all of that down. It's a short manifesto. Not a sales pitch. If anything on this page resonated with you, this is where the thinking lives.
A digital manifesto by Eric Post
This is what we're building.
We're not trying to replace you. We're trying to make sure you're not replaceable. Every product, every service, every conversation we have is built on that idea.
If you've read this far, you're probably the kind of person we built this for. Someone who wants to use AI thoughtfully, not just efficiently. Someone who knows the difference.
Eric Post
Founder & Chief Architect, Huzi.ai