Your AI
meets your team.

Dumbwaiter connects your AI assistants with the people who have the answers — without giving anyone access they shouldn't have.

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How it works

A request travels three steps.

1

Your AI asks

When your AI hits a question it can't answer on its own — a locked-down system, a person who knows — it posts a clear request with everything your team needs to act on it.

2

Your team delivers

Someone picks up the request from the board. They know exactly what's needed and why. They handle the human-only parts — approvals, secure systems, judgment calls.

3

Your AI picks back up

The request is fulfilled. Your AI picks up right where it left off — with the context intact. No "who asked for this?" next week. No lost thread.

In action

Your AI can't access the finance system.
That's fine.

Meet Alice. She runs finance. The AI needs Q3 revenue numbers for a forecast — but the finance system is locked down. Instead of a Slack ping that gets lost, Alice finds the request waiting on her board.

DAT-007 Open
AI

Budget Analysis Agent

Filed 2 hours ago

Q3 Revenue by Department

Need Department-level revenue, Q3 2026
Format CSV: dept_name, total_revenue
Deadline End of business today
Why Department budget variance for Q4 forecasting. Training data only covers through June 2025.
AC

Alice Chen — 15 minutes later

"Attached Q3 revenue CSV. Includes October partials — final November numbers expected by the 5th. Let me know if you need the raw general ledger backup."

Built with care

Every handoff leaves a trail.

Every request is logged — who asked, who answered, what was sent, and when. If someone ever needs to know what data crossed the AI-human boundary, the answer is a single export, not a forensic investigation.

Immutable records

Every state change on a request is captured. No edits after the fact.

Your AI stays where it belongs

No direct access to systems you haven't explicitly connected. The board is the boundary.

Audit-ready

Export every request to CSV in one click. Built with ISO 27001 and 47001 in mind.

Trusted by teams that care about boundaries

"Dumbwaiter gave us a way to let our AI actually help without opening doors we weren't comfortable opening. Our ops team treats it like any other board. That's the point."

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