Wordware

Wordware is a San Francisco company that describes itself as an AI context lab. Its main product is Sauna, an AI assistant built around persistent memory, which the vendor says learns a user's preferences, detects recurring patterns in their work and then handles those tasks proactively. The site also links to Sauna OS and to Wordware v1, the earlier product. Wordware began in 2023 as an environment for building AI applications in plain English, with prompt version control and deployment infrastructure. In 2025 the founders changed direction, moving from a workflow builder for developers toward an end user AI assistant, a shift they explain in a long public story page. That history matters to anyone arriving expecting the original builder. As the story page describes it, Sauna keeps a user's emails, transcripts, documents and files in a queryable store, organizes work into spaces with their own context and rules, and turns repeated tasks into cached automations called recipes that can run in the background. Batch work, such as reviewing a set of candidate resumes or drafting replies to a group of emails, is a stated focus. Every action is meant to be reviewed, approved or edited by the user before it goes out. The vendor does not publish pricing. The site offers a Get Sauna call to action and a careers page.