Emergent launches Wingman for citizen developers

Emergent launched Wingman, an autonomous agent platform that lets nontechnical users deploy AI agents that can read and control everyday apps. The company is offering the product now.

Wingman can connect to messaging apps such as WhatsApp, Telegram and iMessage, plus email, calendars, customer-relationship-management systems and GitHub. The platform pauses actions that modify or delete data or send messages to groups until a human operator approves them. Emergent calls those limits “trust boundaries.”

Users can deploy persistent, always-on agents that keep short-term context, schedule tasks and trigger actions from preset events so users do not have to repeat background information. Emergent provides out-of-the-box connections to common services and additional integrations through an integration hub. Linking Wingman to other applications does not require manual coding of API calls or key exchanges; those steps run behind the scenes.

Customers can choose which large language models power Wingman, including models from ChatGPT and Anthropic, or select an Emergent-hosted instance to lower costs. Wingman can generate full-stack or mobile apps and design web pages using modern web-native technologies to produce a front end. Sign-up is quick, and monthly plans are listed at $20 or $200, with introductory discounts available.

Emergent describes how the platform produces code by drawing on patterns from public code and iterating outputs with compute token credits until results meet user needs. Wingman includes a code review feature to run during development, and the company recommends that those findings be interpreted by users with technical knowledge.

Emergent’s release says eight million founders across 190 countries have used its tools to create software it describes as production-ready. Mukund Jha, co-founder and CEO, wrote in the announcement: “Now, anyone can have an always-on team working in the background, not just people who know how to build one.” He also wrote that “Most people aren’t failing at productivity. They’re buried under the smaller tasks that never stop coming.”

The company and outside commentary flag questions about provenance, security and reliability for software produced by large language models compared with applications written by experienced engineers. Wingman suspends high-risk actions behind trust boundaries, offers adjustable response tone and provides technical features and reviews intended for users with developer skills.