Wordware
A plain-English AI app IDE, now legacy after the pivot to Sauna
Overview
Wordware began as an IDE for building AI applications from structured natural-language documents, with loops, branching, structured outputs and one-click API deployment, backed by a $30M seed round led by Spark Capital. In 2025 the company pivoted to Sauna, a memory-first AI assistant; the original product remains online as Wordware V1 but has no published pricing.
Pricing
Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 14 Oct 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete. This is not financial or purchasing advice — always confirm the current price on the provider’s official website before making any decision.
Use cases
What you can produce with Wordware
- Multi-step AI flows written as structured English documents with loops, branching and variables (Wordware V1)
- A Wordware V1 flow published as an API endpoint and called from your own application
- Structured, typed outputs from model responses for downstream steps
- Flows triggered by and acting on connected apps through Triggers & Actions
- Existing V1 flows kept running and accessible through sign-in and the docs
- A route to the company's current product, the Sauna memory-based assistant, from $29 a month
Wordware V1 was a clever idea, prompt programs written as readable English documents with real control flow and API deployment, but the company has moved on. Since its 2025 pivot its main product is Sauna, an AI assistant with persistent memory, and V1 survives as a legacy app whose pricing page returns a 404 and whose legal pages date from 2023.
Existing users can still sign in and run flows. For anything new, we would not build on V1; evaluate Sauna, from $29 a month with a free plan, or a maintained agent builder instead.
What we found
Wordware began in 2023 as an IDE for AI applications in which the program was a structured English document: prompts with loops, branching, structured outputs and tool calls, kept under version control and deployable as an API. Co-founders Filip Kozera and Robert Chandler, who met studying at Cambridge, took it through Y Combinator and raised what the company calls the largest seed round in YC history, $30 million led by Spark Capital and followed by Felicis. Wordware says Instacart, Runway and Glassdoor were among the companies that built on it.
That product is no longer the company's focus. In a story post dated 15 October 2025 the founders explain that after launching Triggers & Actions with more than 2,000 integrations in April 2025, they watched users build workflows and drift away, and in July 2025 decided to pivot to Sauna, an AI assistant built on persistent memory. The Wordware site now calls the company an AI context lab whose main product is Sauna. Sauna's terms name the operator as HeyDaily Inc., the company's earlier name.
The original platform, now labelled Wordware V1, is still reachable. Its landing page, sign-up, login and documentation are live, and its FAQ promises free credits and pay-as-you-go usage with details at a pricing page. That page returns a 404, the terms and privacy pages were last updated in 2023, and no roadmap for V1 is published, so there is no way to tell from the vendor what scaled use costs or how long it will run.
Sauna is the product the company sells. It has a free plan of 100 credits a day, or 200 with a verified card, then Lite at $29, Basic at $99, Pro at $299 and Team at $999 a month, billed monthly only. Anyone weighing Wordware for new production work should treat V1 as legacy and look at Sauna or a maintained agent builder instead.
Compiled by RECATOOLS from public sources: vendor documentation and pricing, code repositories and published reporting.
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