Why we're building this
We're not here to replace your team.
Most AI tools are sold as a way to need fewer people. That has never been the interesting part. The interesting part is what a small team can do when a handful of capable agents work alongside them — taking the routine, the after-hours, the tedious — while the people do the work only people can do.
But always-on agents get expensive fast, and the bill is where most of these experiments quietly die. So Wendl treats cost as a first-class design problem, not an afterthought. Every request is sized to the job. The routine majority runs on local models you own, at no marginal cost. The best cloud models are held back for the moments that genuinely need them — and you can see exactly what each one costs, in plain numbers, right in your chat.
We think that's the honest version of this future: people and machines in the same room, running on infrastructure you can afford, own, and actually understand.
The short version
Built around a few beliefs.
- 01 Collaboration over replacement
- 02 Ownership over lock-in
- 03 Less waste, by default
- 04 Small teams, first class
- 05 Your budget belongs to you, not to whoever you're spending it with
Come build it with us
Wendl is early — and better with company.
We're working in the open with a handful of teams. If "affordable, owned, human-plus-agent" sounds like your kind of thing, say hello — we'd genuinely like to hear what you're trying to build.
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