today marks a special moment - I'm beyond excited to announce wordware's $30m seed round led by @sparkcapital (followed by @felicis & @ycombinator) for decades, coding was the only way to create in our digital world. but AI is changing everything - it thinks in beautiful shades of grey, not just 1s and 0s. with this shift, we saw an opportunity to reimagine who gets to build. there are 30 million software engineers worldwide, but we've always believed that creativity isn't limited to those who can code. wordware is for the next 500m builders - the dreamers, experts, and innovators who've been waiting for their moment to create AI Agents (check out the video for our definition of what that means 😂) it's been quite a journey to get here. 3 years full-time with my brilliant cofounder (@bertie_ai), a decade in the AI space, countless failed experiments with transformers, major pivots, sleepless nights, and 100-hour weeks that tested everything we believed in. but today, I want to pause and celebrate what our incredible team has achieved: - 350k builders bringing their AI visions to life - 10 million people running agents built with wordware - amazing clients like instacart, runway & metadata - breaking @ProductHunt's servers (sorry, not sorry!) - raising one of the largest seeds (if not the largest) out of @ycombinator we still have mountains to climb, but watching our community build things we never imagined possible... that's what keeps us going. what makes wordware different? we've turned English into a programming language for AI. no coding bootcamp required - if you can express ideas clearly, you can build sophisticated AI solutions. our take on reimagining the development stack as a full-stack os for building AI: - unified notion like IDE - built-in tools for rag, speech-to-text, image gen, data analysis, scraping & more - proper engineering concepts for power users (loops, conditionals, function calls, code execution, version control) - open source community: fork, share & customize AI solutions once you're done iterating, deploy as an API to power your AI backend or utilize your AI agent as a workflow to our incredible team who made this possible - thank you to the believers who backed us (@nabeel, @paulg, @AstasiaMyers, @vladm, @dessaigne, @azeem, @benparr, @MattPRD, @bentossell, @blader, @brownthings, @collinmathilde, @kul, @soleio , @DanWestgarth, @barticz, @tomik99 & many more) - thank you thinking about that AI workflow, product feature, or full-fledged AI company? let's chat: wordware.ai ps: we're hiring across all roles! join us in rebuilding how humans create with ai: jobs.ashbyhq.com/wordware.ai

I spent $1.5M building our office after raising a seed round. My co-founder thought I was crazy. Here's what changed his mind... 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭: After our seed round, I looked at our team. Mostly immigrants. Working 6-day weeks. Building something incredibly hard. The office wasn't just where they worked. It was becoming their home. So I made a bet, what if we actually designed for that? The requirements I gave our real estate agent: - Shower (for ocean swims between meetings) - as close to the beach as possible, ability to quickly go surfing/kiting etc. - Big enough kitchen for a chef - Room for an actual sauna People thought I was building a vacation house, I thought: I am building a place worth the sacrifice. 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐈 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤: - Found one of SF's best real estate lawyers. Negotiated hard. - Negotiated Tenant Improvements + First year for free - Effective cost: $250k (not $1.5M) Then I was extremely prescriptive with design and construction. No endless back-and-forth. I drew what I wanted. Told them to build it. Cut iteration time by 80%. 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭: - Nordic vibes (keeping our European souls) - Industrial kitchen - Sauna room (yes, like our product: sauna.ai) - Ocean access - Space that feels like home Conclusions: - This "expensive" decision already paid for itself. - In SF, recruiters charge $100k per engineer. We've closed multiple hires -because candidates walked in and said: "I want to work here." But the real ROI isn't only financial. It's this: - We do Friday AMA as a BBQs on the beach. - People actually use the surfboards. - The team's lifestyle supports the intensity of the work. EVERYONE WANTS IN, doesnt matter if events, hiring or using the space as coworking (@bertie_ai and I open it up for our portfolio companies) My co-founder's response after 3 months: "You were right." Some founders optimize for low burn rate. I optimize for: Can great people sustain this pace for years? Because great companies aren't built in one sprint. They're built by people who can go the distance. We're hiring: wordware.ai/careers (Comment if you want intros to our real estate agent, lawyers or construction team - happy to connect)