Y Combinator-backed startup Wisp AI has officially launched, introducing an AI-powered executive assistant designed for everyday users. Aimed at solo founders, small-business owners, real estate agents, sales reps, and more, Wisp automates tasks like organizing inboxes, recording calls, and initiating follow-ups—freeing users to focus on meaningful work instead of administrative busywork.
Founders Aditya Mahna and Ayush Mahna saw a common problem: people are spending hours on routine administrative tasks—sifting through emails, organizing inboxes, and managing follow-ups. These tasks are often tedious, easy to forget, and prone to falling through the cracks. While hiring an executive assistant could ease the burden, it’s a luxury most individuals and small teams can’t afford. Existing productivity tools attempt to fill the gap but often stop at basic email handling, missing the deeper context found in day-to-day conversations and interactions.
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Wisp tries to resolve this issue using its various features. With its “one-tap conversation capture feature,” users can hit record before any phone call, FaceTime, or in-person chat. With emails, Wisp reads the thread, analyzes the web, checks the user’s calendar, and pulls in their everyday conversations to draft context-aware responses in their tone. It also automatically records virtual meetings, and generates summaries, action items and insights. Wisp chat can answer questions by pulling out full context from the user’s conversations and actions, and execute tasks by stitching together various integrations.
Wisp believes no one should spend even a minute on “drudge work.” “Our goal is to save you at least an hour every day by putting an AI executive assistant in every pocket so a creator, realtor, consultant, solo founder, or student has the same leverage as a Fortune 500 CEO,” Aditya Mahna says. Wisp is building towards fully autonomous assistance: an agent that not only drafts email and logs notes but books travel, submits invoices, and even launches new projects on the user’s behalf.
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Founders Aditya and Ayush Mahna are twin brothers. They had previously studied computer science at Cornell and bootstrapped a consumer fitness app to over 100,000 users and six figures in ARR.
Another AI assistant that aims to improve efficiency by automating tasks is Dash, which has been dubbed “ChatGPT with hands.” Dash introduces a “new way to work” by connecting to Gmail, Notion, Slack, and other productivity applications to complete work autonomously. It allows users to build powerful automation sequences that connect their favorite tools and streamline daily tasks. Users can set up intelligent triggers that automatically execute workflows based on events across connected apps. They can also easily find information across apps, with Dash’s AI-powered search capabilities.