Wasp for founders juggling five relationships at once
Investors, customers, hires and vendors all get a piece of your attention, and the promise that slips is rarely the one that felt urgent at the time.
The short version
A founder's week is built from small commitments made to a lot of different people: an investor update, a customer follow-up, an offer letter, a vendor reply. Nobody else is tracking any of it. Wasp catches the ones made in passing and holds you to them.
The commitment pattern
Founders do not have one job, they have five, and each one produces its own trail of promises: an investor update said to be coming Friday, a pricing answer a prospect is waiting on, an offer told to a candidate as coming this week. None of it lives in one system, because none of it was ever meant to. It just gets said, in an email or a Slack message, and then the day moves on.
The cost of dropping one is not a missed checkbox. It is an investor who notices, a customer who goes quiet, a candidate who takes another offer. Wasp reads across the accounts a founder actually works in and catches the commitment at the moment it is made, not after someone has to ask about it.
What Wasp catches for you
- An investor update promised in a call recap email
- A pricing follow-up you told a prospect you would send
- An offer or feedback you told a candidate was coming this week
Who this fits
This fits if you are the one holding most of the relationships yourself, without an operations hire or an EA whose job is to track them for you.
If you already have someone whose job is chasing this on your behalf, an EA or a chief of staff, they may be the one who needs this more than you do.
Where Wasp is today, plainly
Wasp is pre-launch. The product is built and the waitlist is open, and there is nothing to buy yet. There are no customer testimonials on this page because there are no customers yet. Rather than borrow someone else's quotes or manufacture any, here is what can be checked instead: the live demo runs the real interface on invented data with no account needed, and the changelog lists what has shipped and when.
Questions
Does Wasp replace my CRM?
No. Wasp does not manage a pipeline or a deal stage. It catches the commitments that get made outside whatever system you use, in email and chat, and makes sure they are not the ones that slip.
I already use a task manager for founder to-dos. Why would I need this too?
Because the commitments that hurt are usually the ones that never made it into that task manager. Wasp catches what you never wrote down, then holds you to it the same way it would if you had.
Next
Joining the waitlist puts you in the queue for early access as it rolls out in waves. It costs nothing and there is no card involved.
Other use cases: who else Wasp is for. Comparing Wasp to what you use today? See how Wasp compares.