Emergent Labs Inc., a vibe coding platform for building production-ready software, today announced the launch of Wingman, a personal, autonomous artificial intelligence agent that helps people manage tasks. 

The company launched its Vibe coding platform with a ChatGPT-like interface, allowing nontechnical users to build their own apps on the fly by simply discussing their ideas. Today, Emergent said, it’s bringing that same energy to everyday work and life. 

Autonomous AI agents can sit in the background and live within the same chat interfaces users interact with, such as WhatsApp, iMessage and Telegram. From there, they wait and listen, building up personalization, helping with tasks such as scheduling, catching up on to-do lists, booking flights, catching up before meetings and more. 

“Most people aren’t failing at productivity. They’re buried under the smaller tasks that never stop coming,” co-founder and Chief Executive Mukund Jha said. “We proved with software creation that the right technology, built the right way, reaches everyone. Wingman applies that same principle to autonomous agents.” 

The company said Wingman operates within trust boundaries, acting as a safe companion for users, confirming when it takes consequential actions. 

That’s because it runs autonomously, in the background, with very little human oversight. It doesn’t just activate when triggered by human interaction or a prompt. It activates on schedules and when messages or emails come in for it to check up on. This way, it can keep up with the busy life of office workers, engineers and everyday people. 

It can also connect to the same tools normal people use online, such as via normal sign-in, no developer setup or knowledge required. This includes services such as Gmail and Outlook, Google Calendar, communication apps such as Slack, coding interfaces such as GitHub and others. Other integrations are available via a simple marketplace. 

Wingman remembers what users mentioned and did in the past, carrying personalization and knowledge over time. It keeps short-term memories to remain present, but it also builds complex preferences and routines over time to simplify work, so users never have to re-explain themselves. Tone and personality can also be fine-tuned, so Wingman can be adjusted to preference. 

The service represents an emerging response by startups and other enterprise companies to the rise of open-source AI agents such as OpenClaw, which provide personal autonomous assistants. Genspark.ai launched Genspark Claw as a secure alternative, Nvidia Corp. launched NemoClaw and Zencoder released Zenflow Work. 

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