Last updated 3/3/2025
We’re building the “strong form” AI agent app for business communications — one that doesn’t just add AI around the edges but rethinks the entire experience from the ground-up. We believe Shortwave can be one of the defining business productivity tools of the AI era, empowering tens or even hundreds of millions of users.
Most people’s experience with AI today involves copy & pasting content back and forth from ChatGPT. Not only is this a terrible UX — it severely limits the transformative potential of AI.
Our goal is to unlock 10x (or greater) productivity gains for the average business user by bringing cutting edge AI together with their business communications in a single app designed for effective human-AI collaboration. With Shortwave, users can give the AI access to all of their data and then allow it to take action while still maintaining total control over its output.
We’re focusing on email initially, as it’s (1) ubiquitous (2) an open platform and (3) has a diverse set of valuable business data. In the future, however, we plan to expand beyond email to include all essential business communications tools, including Slack, Teams, CRMs, document platforms, project management tools, and so on.
We believe a small team of very ambitious and talented people can outcompete much larger teams. With AI, this is now more true than ever.
We’re a small team of eight people today and we’re looking for a few smart, passionate, and ambitious folks to join us. Our CEO Andrew formerly founded Firebase & sold it to Google. You can see our full team here.
We’re backed by top tier investors including Union Square Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
We aim to build a world-class team & an amazing work environment. These are the values we aspire to: