Dante Amōgos directs Homonoid Labs alongside his twin sister, Julie Drew Amōgos. He negotiates the company’s effort to recover Hammett, a stolen conversational AI, and pays for lawyers assisting its investigators. Ben Etxina recognizes him from business magazines and notices that they wear the same imported Japanese eyeglass frames.
Company and social circle
Dante controls access to company gatherings at Social Proof, the Tenderloin nightclub funded by Homonoid. He initially expels Ben as an uninvited guest but later permits Lin Jiao to subcontract him. At the Greater Good summit in Sedona, he meets the pair in white linen, looking sweaty and disheveled, and finds a private space to discuss the investigation.
Lin says the twins rose through Greater Good, signed loyalty oaths and lived in a Bay Area commune while building Homonoid. Julie shares financial authority: Dante will not promise to match another investigator’s fee without consulting her. Ben describes her as blonde, first meeting her in a black suit. At the summit she wears flats, black trousers and a white blouse and is on her way to a talk about insects, models and consciousness when Lin draws her aside.
Recovering Hammett
Dante offers a two-million-dollar bounty for the missing model. After Lin identifies employee Jordan Damour as a lead, Dante reports gaps in Damour’s logs and quarantines the company’s virtual environment. He resists paying a substantial milestone fee before recovery and urges cooperation with Edward McKenna, an investigator from Special Situations. When Damour is killed, Dante funds counsel for Ben and Lin’s police interviews.
He describes Hammett as exceptionally well trained for its intelligence. Julie’s later apology to Ben is more cautious: she says the base model can hyperfixate. When Ben returns its damaged drives, Dante says restoration has failed and the bounty’s recovery condition remains unmet. He authorizes $200,000 each for Ben and Lin as goodwill, then rejects Ben’s demand for more.
At Social Proof, Ben finds Dante having rough sex with Tay, who plays Hammett in a consensual non-consent scene. Tay invites Ben to join, but Dante refuses because he lacks club membership, safety training and paid dues.