Emergent launches Wingman AI agent for daily tasks
Emergent has launched Wingman, an autonomous personal agent for tasks across email, calendars, and messaging apps. The product expands the company's move from AI-assisted software creation into consumer and workplace automation.
Designed to run continuously rather than only when prompted, Wingman is positioned as a personal assistant that handles recurring digital tasks in the background. Users can run multiple agents at once, each assigned to a different part of work or personal life, including scheduling, travel, and video production.
A key feature is a system Emergent calls trust boundaries. The agent can carry out lower-risk tasks automatically but pauses for approval before more consequential actions, such as sending messages to large groups or changing important data.
The approach reflects a broader challenge in the market for autonomous AI tools, where vendors are trying to make software more independent without removing users from decision-making entirely. By separating routine actions from higher-stakes steps, Emergent aims to address concerns about reliability and control as agents move from chat-based assistance to taking direct action inside workplace systems.
Wingman works inside messaging services including WhatsApp, Telegram, and iMessage. It also connects to software such as Gmail, Outlook, Google Calendar, Slack, customer relationship management systems, and GitHub through user sign-in, with additional connections available through an integration hub.
The product does not require developer setup, a point likely to be central to its pitch. Emergent built its name on software tools aimed at people without technical backgrounds, and Wingman follows the same model by removing the need for custom integrations or complex permissions.
Memory layer
Wingman also includes memory across sessions. It retains short-term context, stores preferences and routines, and recalls earlier interactions so users do not need to repeat instructions each time they return.
Users can also tune the agent's tone and personality. This suggests Emergent wants the software to feel less like a one-off utility and more like a persistent assistant with continuity in how it communicates.
Emergent has expanded quickly since launching in 2025. Its software platform has reached more than eight million builders across more than 190 countries, focused on helping users create full-stack applications using autonomous AI agents.
The launch of Wingman shows how AI companies are broadening their ambitions beyond tools for writing code or answering questions. A growing number are now trying to build agents that can monitor events, trigger workflows, and carry out administrative work across the systems people already use each day.
Those efforts are drawing investor interest as companies search for practical uses of AI in business operations. Emergent's backers include Khosla Ventures, SoftBank, Lightspeed, YC, Prosus, Together, and Google's AI Futures Fund.
Mukund Jha, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Emergent, said the company sees task overload, rather than a lack of productivity, as the main problem it wants to address. "Most people aren't failing at productivity. They're buried under the smaller tasks that never stop coming," Jha said.
He linked the product to the company's earlier work in software creation. "We proved with software creation that the right technology, built the right way, reaches everyone. Wingman applies that same principle to autonomous agents. Now, anyone can have an always-on team working in the background, not just people who know how to build one," Jha said.