Launching today
Wendi AI
The AI OS for people who manage people
129 followers
The AI OS for people who manage people
129 followers
The manager's OS for high stakes people managing decisions. Wendi's AI takes meeting notes quietly, gives you elevated leadership & HR-safe guidance to enhance your everyday team managing, making you and your team AI efficient.
Wendi AI
Hi Product Hunt 👋
I’m Rebeca, co-founder of IamWendi.ai.
I’m completely new here, and honestly, I’m more of a TikTok person than an X person, so forgive me if this isn’t the perfectly polished Product Hunt intro you’re used to 😅
This product comes from an experienced pain, probably one of the worst ones I've gone through. And since it happened, I've learned how much it affects a lot of other people everyday too.
Building a company is intense. And sometimes the hardest part isn’t product, growth, or fundraising, it’s what happens behind the scenes when relationships break, trust gets tested, and you still have to keep leading anyway.
What we’re building is deeply shaped by that.
Wendi AI is the managers personal workspace built to help leaders make better decisions, understand what’s really happening in their teams, and lead with more clarity when things feel messy, heavy, or ambiguous.
Because leadership can be incredibly lonely. And when you’re carrying the weight of people, performance, and big decisions, you need more than dashboards and gut instinct.
You need something that helps you think and knows the context of your team, company and your own leadership style.
This launch is a bit last-minute, a bit chaotic, but the product is very real and we've got paying customers using it.
And if I'm honest, the whole startup journey has been like this.
We’re really happy to be here, even if we arrived in a rush.
If you’re checking us out today, thank you.
If you have feedback, questions, skepticism, or curiosity, I’m here, and I’d genuinely love to hear it.
Thanks for giving a PH newcomer a chance 💛
PS: We've added a 50% off, use the CODE: hunted50 to download the app on our website with the design partner offer.
PS2: Follow us on Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@wendiai
Wordwand
@rebeca_garcia_wendiai The honesty in this introduction is refreshing. "A bit last-minute, a bit chaotic" is perhaps the most relatable statement a founder can make on launch day.
The problem you describe is real and rarely discussed openly. Most leadership tools focus on tracking team performance externally—OKRs, dashboards, sprint velocity—but completely overlook the decision-making process occurring within the leader's mind. The aspect of loneliness particularly resonates. When you are making decisions that impact people's careers and livelihoods, there is no option to "ask a colleague" because you are the colleague everyone else is asking.
I am curious about how Wendi builds context over time. You mentioned it understands your team, company, and leadership style. Is this something you configure initially, or does it learn from your interactions with it? Furthermore, how do you address the trust factor? Leaders managing sensitive team dynamics might be hesitant to input that information into an AI tool. What is your approach to data privacy in this regard?
Wendi AI
Hi @diegodau , thank you for the comment and questions, very good ones.
"you are the colleague everyone else is asking" is so real. When everyone else is looking at you, who do you look at, right?
On context: it's mostly learned, not configured. There's a light setup at the start if they're admin (this usually is the Head of Ops or founder if it's a relatively small team) but the real depth comes from actual interactions. Every meeting Wendi processes, every conversation you bring to it accumulates into memory and it stores automatically by team member. Over time it knows your team's patterns, what feedback landed, what didn't. You stop re-prompting context, because it just knows. That's the whole point for technical managers who have zero cognitive space to hold the people layer in their head on top of everything else.
On the trust factor: We made a deliberate call to make Wendi is manager-facing after a lot of research, they're already using AI to ask these questions and most feel more comfortable asking an AI than a partner or superior. On the privacy part, we're working our way through SOC2 & ISO 27001, so that Wendi offers enterprise grade privacy certifications
Our overall approach is offer value first and we believe architecturing context correctly, we can help managers make the most of AI.
Appreciate you checking out the laugh!
ittybit
@rebeca_garcia_wendiai @ben_mcloughlin Congrats on launching, the video explainer is really good!
Can you say more about how your current customers are using it and the problems you're solving for them?
p.s. I like the honest intro! I'm sure a bunch of founders have had that moment where they just wanted to make a cool product and now they're trying to urgently learn about some HR minutia 😆
Wendi AI
Thank you @paulantwilliams - really glad the video resonated.
We're seeing two really distinct patterns in how people use Wendi right now:
The first is the technical manager, someone who's coding 8–10 hours a day, deeply heads-down, and has a team of developers they also need to show up for or manage. For them, Wendi becomes a separate AI memory. They're not prompting it with context, they're not re-explaining who's who and what happened last week, Wendi already knows. It means they can actually be present with their team without it costing them cognitive overhead they don't have.
The second is the manager navigating an HR moment. That can be anything from giving difficult feedback, handling a conflict, managing someone through poor performance all the way to preparing to let someone go for the first time. Documenting correctly, following procedure, knowing what to say and what not to say. These are the situations where managers feel most alone and most exposed. Wendi helps them feel prepared and protect the business.
And yes to your PS, the midnight HR googling is extremely real 😂 that's basically the founding story in one sentence.
The HR-safe guidance part caught my attention. When I managed a team, the trickiest moments were not the big decisions but the small everyday ones — how to phrase performance feedback without crossing a line, when to escalate vs handle it yourself. Does Wendi help with those in-the-moment calls, or is it more of a post-meeting reflection tool?
Wendi AI
You are most definitely right @klara_minarikova, those everyday decisions make all the difference managing a team.
Right now Wendi is most powerful in two moments: before and after the conversation. However Wendi's context layer is designed to proactively prompt managers with heads up before things escalate. Most managers wing those conversations because they don't have time to prepare properly, Wendi makes prep fast enough that you actually do it.
We are considering adding the in-the-moment real-time guidance, but it's not live yet.
A part of us believes this would be very helpful, specially for inexperienced managers and another one believes it would make conversations feel less human, what do you think?
This is great - exactly what I'd have been building into my people app if I was still the owner of it! The firehose of data from real conversations is the only way to identify the patterns. Managers still need to be able to ask good questions, dig deeper and say difficult things but hopefully Wendi will give them more confidence to do so. Congrats on the launch!
Wendi AI
@jonny_burch1 Thank you Jonny, that's great feedback coming from a founder experienced in the sector, appreciate you.
Trufflow
One of my concerns when utilizing AI to manage human relationships is the fact that the AI itself has inherent biases that impacts the analysis it performs. How do you minimize that bias within Wendi?
Wendi AI
That's an awesome question @lienchueh , thank you!
Short answer: Grounding.
Long answer: There's inherent bias in (1) the LLM's answer and (2) the human prompting. By capturing the meeting notes, we minimize (2) Wendi gets the context automatically. And for (1), we ground Wendi to answer from HR and leadership best practices.
The goal with Wendi is not to manage the human relationships, but rather to help managers be better humans. By surfacing and guiding them to lean on the traits that make them most humans, honesty, courage, empathy...
Ultimately, businesses are run by people, which is messy, chaotic and non-linear. And while AI can make us more productive, we believe that if we are not using AI to learn how to manage and lead better, we are not making the most of it.
Managing people is one of the hardest parts of scaling a company, and most AI tools completely ignore this. Love that Wendi focuses specifically on leadership and HR-safe guidance rather than just being another meeting note taker. The quiet meeting notes + actionable management advice combo is a really smart niche. Best of luck with the launch!
Wendi AI
Appreciate your comment, thank you and I agree with you @sai_tharun_kakirala!
People is by far the hardest, very easy to get wrong too. At the end of the day, businesses are run by people. AI can make us more productive, but if we don't learn to manage and lead better, we don't use AI well; and real people suffer.
We built the Wendi to be the product we wish we had when things got ugly: a private manager workspace that helps people handle hard situations early, fairly, and safely; so great teams don't fall apart over avoidable people problems.
We believe this is one of the first times in history we can truly improve management in the moment; helping the future of work become a place where AI supports better, faster, safer human decisions.