ex-YC founder

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San Francisco, CA
Expert/Leader
Artificial Intelligence • Software
The Role
We seek an ex-YC founder to help build an all-in-one AI development platform. You will leverage your startup experience to navigate challenges and develop innovative solutions for a growing user base.
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what is wordware?

we're building the all-in-one platform for AI development.

here's what that actually means:

the core idea: if the assembly language for new reasoning units (LLMs) is English, let's put it front and centre and incorporate the best concepts from software engineering:

  • conditional statements

  • loops

  • function calling functions (aka in fancy language multi-agent communication) — this is more difficult than it seems because of the needed type system (see below)

  • type system (especially important for interacting with multimodal LLMs where one output might have to be transformed to be passed on forward to the next step of the flow which might incorporate an LLM which can only interact with specific modalities)

  • easy linking with Tools (custom or prebuilt and ready to use: speech-to-text, image generation, ElevenLabs, research and many more

the ide: where the magic happens like notion met vscode and had a baby. build and test AI flows instantly, see results in real-time, iterate fast.

deployment: choose your flavor

  • api mode:

    • plug your AI engine straight into your product

    • forget about prompt management hell

    • focus on features, not infrastructure

  • workflow mode:

    • automate your work with triggers and actions

    • start small, scale to entire business processes

    • connect everything - it's an operating system for AI

  • wordapps & repository:

    • deploy as public/private web apps

    • share your flows github-style

    • let others fork and build on your work

    • control what people see (from basic UI to full process)

p.s. pls don't use zero prompt ai, we get enough of these to know immediately 😂

ex-YC founder @ wordware

being real: something didn't work out? we get it. we're looking for founders who still have that fire but want to join something that's still early but some things are working

the actual opportunity: we have 350k users and just raised the biggest seed out of YC ($30m). we're defining a new category (natural language ai development) and need people who know what it takes to build something huge. you've been through the trenches - now help us navigate ours.

the bigger picture: we're not just talking to traditional developers. we're reaching the next 500 million people who will be "coding" with plain english - lawyers, designers, product managers, founders, and domain experts of all kinds. you know how hard this kind of opportunity is to find.

you probably:

  • ran a YC company (obviously)

  • know what worked and what didn't

  • still want to build something massive

  • can wear multiple hats

  • understand both technical and business sides

ps: we're backed by spark capital, felicis, and y combinator ($30m seed — biggest out of YC round) but we still work like a seed startup. you'll be one of the first people showing the world how to build with AI in plain english.

Top Skills

Ai Development
APIs
Llms
Multimodal Interaction
Workflow Automation
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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
29 Employees
On-site Workplace

What We Do

Wordware is a web-hosted IDE where non-technical domain experts work with AI Engineers to build task-specific AI agents. We approach prompting as a new programming language rather than low/no-code blocks.

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