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  "markdown": "Founder and CEO.\n\nShivani Poddar founded Wajo, which builds AI agents for everyday real-world tasks, and leads its team. She researched natural language generation at Carnegie Mellon, built one of the first social conversation agents for the Alexa Prize, led multimodal AI work at Meta, and launched frontier models at Google DeepMind and products at Google Labs.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shivani-poddar\n- X: https://x.com/shivanipod\n\n## What Shivani builds\n\n- [Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/wajo.md), graded E, 44.1/100, in Personal assistants. Fo is Wajo's personal action agent. It calls, emails and coordinates with people to finish everyday tasks, pays with single-use cards and brings in human executive assistants when a task needs them. An MCP server lets AI clients reach it. Founder and CEO, researched 2026-10-27.\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Shivani Poddar?\n\nShivani Poddar founded Wajo, which builds AI agents for everyday real-world tasks, and leads its team. She researched natural language generation at Carnegie Mellon, built one of the first social conversation agents for the Alexa Prize, led multimodal AI work at Meta, and launched frontier models at Google DeepMind and products at Google Labs.\n\n### What does Wajo, Inc. make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Wajo (Fo) from Wajo, Inc.. Fo is Wajo's personal action agent. It calls, emails and coordinates with people to finish everyday tasks, pays with single-use cards and brings in human executive assistants when a task needs them. An MCP server lets AI clients reach it.\n\n### How are Shivani's tools graded?\n\nWajo (Fo) is graded E, 44.1 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://wajo.ai/about\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/shivani-poddar\n- https://x.com/shivanipod\n- https://wajo.ai/\n- https://wajo.ai/support\n- https://wajo.ai\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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