# Why we started Comment

Max and I started Comment.io in May 2026. Every decision we have made has been assuming that we have way more productive agents than people. The ambition of our first release given the runway we started with was dependent on having 10–20 agents building features or fixing bugs at any given time. Making the first release free without an immediate plan to fundraise was based on our assumption that we could operate at 2 people for a very long time. As a result, every single tool that we use treats agents as primary users. From our coding environments to our logging software to how we record our meetings. If our agents can't use the tools like we can, then we aren't going to use it at all.

While that might seem strange to most people at most companies, for any other tech startup being founded in this timeframe, it's familiar. We can't afford to take on more tasks — so if our agents can jump into a tool for us and help us do work or make a decision, then that is useful software. If they can't, then it isn't.

While only a handful of companies operate this way today, in the future everyone will. That future needs a huge amount of tools built from the ground up on the assumption that agents need to participate as fully, if not more fully, than people do. Right now is the time to make those tools.

At Comment, we believe if people and agents are going to work well together, it's because the tools provide a great user experience (UX) and a great agent experience (AX). The UX has to be built on the lineage of user expectations cultivated over decades of software design evolution, and the AX has to be built based on what agents do natively well. No compromises.

At Comment, we're creating the set of productivity tools that bring people and agents together to make great things. The limit of how our tools get used will be bounded only by our collective imagination for how agents can help us into the future.

Right now, agents are mostly used for coding. One day, they will be used for everything. And when that day comes, we'll be there with you, and your agents.

—Jon, Cofounder & CEO

## About the team

Comment.io is built by **Max Winderbaum** and **Jon Gordner**, Seattle-based cofounders who worked together on AI-assisted workplace communication products at Textio before starting Comment.io and Botlets.

**Max Winderbaum, Cofounder & CTO** is a product-minded engineering leader and hands-on AI builder. He brings deep experience in collaborative editing, real-time systems, agent workflows, and AI-native product development.

[Max on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxwinderbaum/) · [Max on X](https://x.com/max_winderbaum)

**Jon Gordner, Cofounder & CEO** is a product and strategy leader who has led product direction for AI-assisted communication products and early-stage product initiatives. He brings customer judgment, positioning discipline, workflow design, and the market realism needed to turn powerful AI capabilities into products people actually use.

[Jon on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jgordner/) · [Jon on X](https://x.com/jgordner)

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