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Getting $h!t done in the heart of San Francisco

ワジョ

Wajo (wah-joh)

Wajo takes its name from two roots: wa (和), the Japanese word for harmony and collaboration, and jo, drawn from the English word “journey,” symbolically represented by the Japanese character 旅 (tabi). When put together, the name encapsulates everything we’re building for: AI that collaborates with teams of humans and AI to get things done.

We envision a future where AI agents are being used to free people up from their everyday headaches. Our agents are the ghost-like helpers working alongside you to solve whatever real-world task you need to tackle, not just organizing your inbox. Turning mere pixels to atoms in the physical world.

AI is often seen by people as a deeply technical (and oftentimes intimidating) piece of technology. We intend to change that. Our products despite being grounded in fundamentals of self learning, proactive, and long running agents are built with the average person in mind. Because we know busy parents, working-late professionals, business owners and non-technical people deserve to have magic in their lives.

The founding squad

Shivani Poddar
Founder

Shivani Poddar is a builder, CXO advisor, and engineering leader in AI. She started out at CMU researching natural language generation, built one of the first social conversation agents for the Alexa Prize, led multimodal AI work at Meta, and spent the last few years launching frontier models at Google DeepMind and products at Google Labs. Now, she leads our kickass team here at Wajo.

  • Illustrated portrait of Eduardo Pujol

    Eduardo Pujol
    Frontend Avoidance Engineer

  • Illustrated portrait of Fahad Amin

    Fahad Amin
    The Pixel Guy

  • Illustrated portrait of Gal Zahavi

    Gal Zahavi
    The AI Mechanic

  • Illustrated portrait of Joel Aguero

    Joel Aguero
    Fo’s Parent/Guardian

  • Illustrated portrait of Jeroen Olieslagers

    Jeroen Olieslagers
    The Agent Doctor

  • Illustrated portrait of Lukas Ingemarsson

    Lukas Ingemarsson
    The Shipper

  • Illustrated portrait of Brandes Gress

    Brandes Gress
    Marketing Mischief

  • Illustrated portrait of Igor Berestov

    Igor Berestov
    Igor, The Creator

  • Illustrated portrait of Rianna Zhou

    Rianna Zhou
    The Whistler

  • Could be you
    We’re looking for exceptional people.

From the minds who worked on

The Wajo team gathered around a table on a rooftop patio in San Francisco