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Delegate real work to AI agents with safety guardrails
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Ben Lang

Venn.ai - Delegate real work to AI agents with safety guardrails

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Connect Claude, Cursor, OpenClaw, ChatGPT, and VS Code agents to your apps — then set guardrails for around what they can do. Draft but don't send. Update but don't delete. Full action-level control, complete visibility, no coding required.

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Melissa Weir
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Hey Product Hunt, I'm Melissa Weir, VP of Marketing of Venn by Barndoor AI! 👋 AI agents are only as powerful as what they're connected to. Most people are leaving 80% of that power on the table. The Problem You're using OpenClaw, Claude, ChatGPT, VS Code or Cursor every day but everything you actually do lives across Google Workspace, Salesforce, Slack, Notion, and dozens of other apps. Most people don't know how to connect their AI and if they do, they run into three walls: ❌ Complex, time-consuming setup — Connecting your tools to an AI isn't plug-and-play. It requires technical configuration, OAuth apps, and ongoing maintenance. ❌ AI Platform lock-in — If you do get set up, your integrations only work in that one agent. Claude's connectors stay in Claude. ChatGPT's stay in ChatGPT. Switch agents, start over from scratch. ❌ No visibility, no control — Even when it's all connected, you have no control over what your AI is doing. A record updated. Data moved. An email sent. You find out after the fact if you find out at all. After living this problem ourselves, we built Venn. How Venn is Different 🚀 Delegate to AI without the anxiety. Venn connects your apps to your AI, puts you in control of what your agents can do, and gives you full visibility into every action they take. 🔷 Set up in minutes — Connect your apps and AI to Venn once. No coding, no complex configuration. Get up and running in under 5 minutes. 🔷 You decide what your AI can and can't do — AI shouldn't have unlimited access to everything. With Venn you set the permissions: which apps your AI can use, what actions it can take, and where the boundaries are. 🔷 Works with every AI you already use — OpenClaw, Claude, ClaudeCode, ChatGPT, Cursor, and VS Code. Your connected apps work across all of them. No rebuilding, no starting over when you switch. 🔷 See every move your agent makes — A clear activity log of every action your AI took, every app it touched, and whether it was allowed or blocked by the rules you set. Who is this for? If you want to get more out of AI in your work and personal life, Venn is for you. Whether you're a sales rep, product manager, marketer, project manager, analyst, engineer, or developer — if AI is part of how you work, Venn makes it work harder for you. Your AI. Your rules. 🔗 Get started for free at venn.ai — 7 day trial, no credit card required.
Jammie Peng
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My favorite AI use case isn't just "automation." It is about unlocking capabilities that used to be gated by technical skills.

This week, I spent a few hours using @Cowork + @Venn.ai to setup scheduled tasks. They help me fill the gaps where our enterprise tools are too heavy or where I previously lacked the technical skills to get the job done.

Here is how I’m using agentic AI to run my workflow:

📊 Weekly Funnel Reporting

Use @Venn.ai connector to pull data from @Grafana , create an activation funnel report, and post it directly into Notion. I get visibility without needing a data warehouse or data analyst. While it’s not perfectly scalable since I can hit token limits on heavy logs, it is incredibly effective for short-term monitoring.

💌 Personalized Research Outreach

Use @Venn.ai connector to pull data from @Grafana, identify users who haven't completed product setup, and draft personalized emails in Gmail based on an email template stored in @Notion. This used to be a copy-paste nightmare. Since research happens in spurts, I could never justify the effort of a full HubSpot automation sequence. I still review, edit, and send manually because I don't trust AI with sending emails yet, so I turn off that capability in Venn's settings.

✅ Automated Response Tracking

I put multiple-choice answers directly in my emails to make it easier for users to respond. Use @Venn.ai connector to check my inbox daily, extract those answers, and log them into @Notion . It even records which subject lines have higher response rates in a Google Sheet for A/B testing.

Agentic AI isn't about replacing the big tools in our stack. It's about creating the custom connections we need to move fast and stay lean.

Are you using AI to automate your existing tasks, or are you using it to do things that were previously impossible for you?

lex

The 'set guardrails' feature is exactly what’s missing in most AI agent workflows. How do you handle edge cases where the agent gets stuck in a loop? I'm building automation for TikTok leads today and safety is my #1 concern too. Great work!

Melissa Weir
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@lex_streamleadsThanks! What kind of automation do you want to do with TikTok leads? In the next two weeks, we'll be releasing connections to TikTok, Instagram, and LinkedIn all through Venn so curious to know how you want to use it.

For the agent stuck in a loop question, our team is looking into this and will get back to you.

lex

@melissa_weir1 Great question! The exact automation workflow I'm focusing on for StreamLeads has 3 different triggers:

  1. Trigger: Scraping comments based on a specific keyword, a single viral video URL, or sweeping a creator's entire profile.

  2. Logic/Agent: Passing that raw data to an LLM to filter out the noise and identify 'high-intent' buyers (e.g., people asking 'where to buy?' or 'link?').

  3. Action: The agent then auto-drafts platform-compliant replies to safely funnel them without triggering TikTok's strict shadowbans.

I just launched this MVP today. The absolute hardest part of this workflow is interacting with TikTok's ecosystem without getting flagged by their anti-bot filters. If Venn is releasing stable, reliable integrations for TikTok and IG in the next two weeks, that would be a massive unlock for builders like me! Definitely keeping an eye on your updates.

Dimitar Genev

I manage paid campaigns across Google, Meta and LinkedIn. Lots of data, lots of context-switching, lots of time spent on things that shouldn't take that long.

What changed for me with Venn is that Claude can now actually reach into the tools I work in every day — Sheets, Docs, Drive, Gmail, Asana. Not just talk about them. The workflow I use most is pulling campaign performance into Sheets, having Claude flag what's off, and drafting a summary straight into Docs. What used to take a couple of hours is now something I kick off and come back to.

The permissions setup is also just... sensible. I'm comfortable with Claude reading and writing to Sheets, but I still want to review before anything goes out in Gmail. Venn lets me draw exactly that line.

Honestly didn't expect to get this much practical value out of it this fast. It's become a daily part of how I work.

Tea Velizarova

As a graphic & web designer, @Venn.ai has genuinely changed how I move through a project. I've been using it to connect Claude with Asana, Google Docs, Slides, Sheets, Figma, and Slack. Instead of jumping between tools to piece together context, I can track briefs, run design research, and start building out my projects all from one thread.

@Venn.ai helps me pull task details from Asana, reference brief docs, and feed that context directly into Claude, all while staying in control and knowing exactly what the AI can access and what it can't. And for client work especially, the security side is important. Connecting this many tools means you need to trust how your data is handled, and Venn takes that seriously.

Oren Michels
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@Venn.ai has made a huge difference in my day-to-day interaction with Claude - I can easily access a dozen MCPs simultaneously, and can direct it to talk to my personal email in one prompt and my business email in another. Getting customer info from salesforce, email, and granola, and summarizing it in a google sheet to plan followups has been incredibly powerful.

The product’s seamless integration into Openclaw has made it simple for me to let Openclaw interact with my apps but not do things it shouldn’t be doing. I run a sandboxed openclaw in a Digital Ocean droplet, and since it’s headless it’s really hard to authenticate to MCP servers. WIth @Venn.ai I simply told Openclaw to install the Venn skill, got an API key from Venn, and gave that key to Openclaw. And just like that Openclaw had access to the apps I wanted it to see, with limitations I set so it wouldn’t run wild.