Describe an app in plain English. Woz builds it, tests it, ships it to the store - and keeps it running.
It's a Tuesday, and a founder who has never written a line of code just typed a sentence: "I need a booking app with payments and chat." No standup. No sprint board. No frantic search for a technical cofounder who might, if the equity is right, deign to return the call. The sentence goes in. Somewhere behind it, a fleet of AI agents wakes up, divides the labor, and starts building - frontend, backend, hosting, database - while a human engineer keeps a hand on the wheel. That is Woz, and it is quietly rearranging who gets to build software.
Woz (YC W25) calls itself an AI technical cofounder. The phrase is doing a lot of work. It is not a chatbot that spits out snippets, and it is emphatically not - the founders will interrupt you here - another no-code tool for demos and toy apps. It is closer to a factory: a system that designs, codes, tests, deploys, and maintains entire applications, then walks them all the way to the app store. The idea that "I have an idea" might be the only technical skill a person needs is either naive or inevitable. Woz is betting on inevitable.
Traditional no-code platforms hand you a prototype and wish you luck. Woz picks up where they stop - taking a plain-English brief through the full product lifecycle. The pitch is simple enough to fit on a napkin, and detailed enough to make an engineering team nervous.
Describe the app you want - features, payments, chat, whatever the business needs. No spec docs, no tickets.
Specialized AI agents handle discrete steps - frontend, backend, hosting, database - like stations on an assembly line.
When an agent hits a snag, a human engineer steps in. Every app gets a real quality review before it ships.
"Vibe coding" - letting an AI improvise its way to a working demo - is fast, fun, and famously fragile. Woz's argument is that a demo is not a business. Rather than handing the AI unlimited freedom, Woz sets clear tasks, processes, and guardrails, then keeps humans in the loop to correct course. CEO Ben Collins compares it to a manufacturing assembly line: an AI app factory where the automation is real but the quality control is human.
It is a pointed position in a market crowded with tools that stop at the prototype. Bubble, Lovable, and the rest let you test an idea; Woz wants to run the whole thing - deployment, cloud hosting, app-store publication, and the unglamorous maintenance that keeps software alive after launch day.
Ben Collins and Brad Eckert met as roommates at MIT thirteen years ago and have been building at the edge of AI/ML ever since. The team is small and senior - ML scientists and production engineers who have spent roughly a decade together scaling products to millions of users.
Leads Woz's vision of the "AI app factory" - automation paired with human expertise. Frames the company as building apps businesses can actually trust.
Previously co-founded Cairns Health (YC S17), where he led an engineering team of 30+ and built an LLM-enabled device aimed at curing chronic insomnia.
In October 2025, Woz announced a $6M seed round led by Cervin Ventures. The cap table has a sporting twist: alongside the venture firms sits the Lacob family, co-owners of the NBA's Golden State Warriors.
Ben Collins and Brad Eckert meet as roommates at MIT and start building AI/ML projects together.
Brad co-founds Cairns Health (YC S17), leading a 30+ engineering team on an LLM-enabled health device.
Woz launches publicly through Y Combinator's W25 batch as "Your AI Technical Cofounder."
Woz announces a $6M seed round led by Cervin Ventures to accelerate product and hiring.
Woz is aimed at small business owners, entrepreneurs, side hustlers, creators, and consultants - the people who have a product in their head and no engineering department to build it. The roadmap points beyond mobile: web apps, TV apps, IoT software, AR/VR, and eventually regulated sectors like healthcare and insurance.
The booking app is live now. It takes payments, it has a chat, and it sits in the app store next to products that took teams of engineers and rounds of funding to ship. The founder who typed one sentence never opened a code editor, never scheduled a standup, never learned what a merge conflict is. The gap between having an idea and holding a real product - the gap that used to swallow whole companies - closed while they were making coffee.
That is the quiet rearrangement Woz is after. Not faster prototypes. Not prettier demos. A world where the technical cofounder is a service you can rent by the sentence, and where the only thing standing between a person and a shipped business is knowing what they want to build. Whether that world arrives on schedule is an open question. Woz, $6 million in and building on a Tuesday, is not waiting to find out.