Connect Claude, Cursor, OpenClaw, ChatGPT, and VS Code agents to your apps — then set guardrails for around what they can do. Draft but don't send. Update but don't delete. Full action-level control, complete visibility, no coding required.
Hey Product Hunt, I'm Melissa Weir, VP of Marketing of Venn by Barndoor AI! 👋
AI agents are only as powerful as what they're connected to. Most people are leaving 80% of that power on the table.
The Problem
You're using OpenClaw, Claude, ChatGPT, VS Code or Cursor every day but everything you actually do lives across Google Workspace, Salesforce, Slack, Notion, and dozens of other apps. Most people don't know how to connect their AI and if they do, they run into three walls:
❌ Complex, time-consuming setup — Connecting your tools to an AI isn't plug-and-play. It requires technical configuration, OAuth apps, and ongoing maintenance.
❌ AI Platform lock-in — If you do get set up, your integrations only work in that one agent. Claude's connectors stay in Claude. ChatGPT's stay in ChatGPT. Switch agents, start over from scratch.
❌ No visibility, no control — Even when it's all connected, you have no control over what your AI is doing. A record updated. Data moved. An email sent. You find out after the fact if you find out at all.
After living this problem ourselves, we built Venn.
How Venn is Different 🚀
Delegate to AI without the anxiety. Venn connects your apps to your AI, puts you in control of what your agents can do, and gives you full visibility into every action they take.
🔷 Set up in minutes — Connect your apps and AI to Venn once. No coding, no complex configuration. Get up and running in under 5 minutes.
🔷 You decide what your AI can and can't do — AI shouldn't have unlimited access to everything. With Venn you set the permissions: which apps your AI can use, what actions it can take, and where the boundaries are.
🔷 Works with every AI you already use — OpenClaw, Claude, ClaudeCode, ChatGPT, Cursor, and VS Code. Your connected apps work across all of them. No rebuilding, no starting over when you switch.
🔷 See every move your agent makes — A clear activity log of every action your AI took, every app it touched, and whether it was allowed or blocked by the rules you set.
Who is this for?
If you want to get more out of AI in your work and personal life, Venn is for you. Whether you're a sales rep, product manager, marketer, project manager, analyst, engineer, or developer — if AI is part of how you work, Venn makes it work harder for you.
Your AI. Your rules.
🔗 Get started for free at venn.ai — 7 day trial, no credit card required.
Can different access rights be assigned to different employees? And in general, is there a corporate account with a management dashboard?
I have not tried Venn yet, but that's about to change real fast. On first glance, I can already see the potential for this to make my AI workflows so much easier, more effective and efficient, and give me more peace of mind.
As a community professional, I'm very conscious and intentional about integrating AI into my work, because community is human, authentic, and rooted in trustful relationships. Guardrails are necessary for me to maintain the level of control I need to do my job well.
Appreciate the team of Makers for recognizing this need and building Venn. Stoked to give it a spin!
Hello Product Hunt! We’re super proud to launch Venn.ai, a secure & convenient way to access all your business data from any AI client. Try it today!
If you're an @OpenClaw fan, @Venn.ai helps you graduate from all of those connections to SaaS apps you've vibe-configging and vibe-integrating (using random skills and CLIs). No shade on CLIs. But definitely shade on non-tech folks having to go into Google Cloud Console to create OAuth client IDs and secrets, just so that they can connect OpenClaw to Google Workspace apps (that's some advanced #BroAuth).
Hi Product Hunt community and friends! I'm Deborah and I work on Platform Strategy and wear a ton of hats at Barndoor. I'm proud to have been a part of launching Venn.
Below is a use-case I've shared on how I use Venn: -------- At Barndoor AI, one of the things I work on is platform integrations, helping to ensure our product works seamlessly with everyone we integrate with, like Google, Notion, Figma and more.
One thing they all have in common is that their customer data has to be handled safely.
However, the requirements to work with each of these platforms is unique, from both technical and business sides.
I’m able to connect any of my AI agents (often Anthropic’s Claude) to all of my apps like GitHub, HubSpot, Slack, Jira, Google Drive. Having a centralized place across all of my data saves me so much time.
Venn AI also makes connections that scale in ways only an agent can.
It frees up my capacity to be more creative because I can take a step back and orchestrate across my workflows instead of jumping between tools. It’s reduced a lot of my context switching.
One of the best parts is that it leverages MCP with Barndoor’s security and a control plane I manage, so I can use AI agents across company systems with ease. ----
Now, our product also integrates with OpenClaw and every week, we add more app integrations! Please reach out to me if you have questions or need support getting setup, today and in the future!
When you set action level guardrails like "draft but don't send," does the agent queue those drafts somewhere for batch review or do you approve them one by one in real time? Nice work on this!
@Venn.ai I LOVE Venn! It has genuinely changed how I work. My day spans Gmail, Slack, Notion, Asana, Google Drive, and more. With Venn, I can kick off a new hire onboarding sequence across all of them in one flow, and when it comes to recruiting, I can pull curated candidate feedback from Slack threads, emails, and docs into one place, send candidate follow-ups. There's no more hunting across systems to remember where a conversation landed.
The governance piece is what matters most to me as an HR person. I decide what Claude can and can't do, draft but don't send, update but don't delete. So much trust and efficiency with Venn! I get so much more done with Venn! 🙌
Haven't used it yet, but I know the team behind and I highly recommend them!
I’m a big fan of Venn (I also advise the team).
The biggest unlock for me has been connecting Claude to GitHub and Amplitude.
Once Claude has real context, it becomes a much more powerful assistant:
Vibecoding with full codebase awareness
Data analysis grounded in actual product usage
It stops being a generic AI and starts feeling like a true extension of the team.
I’m sure there are many more use cases, but these alone have already been very valuable for me.
As a solutions engineer I am forced to do sales hygiene ( update opps, next steps, add notes, etc), with one prompt I can query my granola notes and update my opportunity in SFDC. huge time saver.
Congrats on getting Venn out there, @melissa_weir1. I like this line: [Put AI to work inside your apps without giving up control]. This is the kind of promise that makes a security-minded user stop.
Checked your site content. Two things stood out.
First, the pricing page shows a free tier with "connectors are read only" and a Pro tier at $5/month that unlocks read/write. That's great. But the hero section talks about "setting guardrails for what AI can read and write."
A user lands, reads that, then sees the pricing, and wonders: "Do I need to pay to actually let my AI do anything?"
That tension is there.
And the free tier is great for testing, but the message could be clearer upfront.
Second, the "how it works" section is four steps, but step 4 says "Ask your AI, 'Hey Venn, what can Venn do for me?'"
That's a nice demo, but it doesn't show the user doing real work.
A stronger step 4 would be a simple example like "Ask your AI to draft an email and schedule a meeting." That shows value immediately.
I attached a screenshot below for your convenience. Spotted a couple of other things that could cost you. Happy to share.
These are just insights from me because I audit product pages daily. Good luck!
seems cool! minor nit, but your reviews all have the same created date which makes them seem a bit suspicious, though they do seem to be real people :) https://reviews.venn.ai/reviews
Hey fellow AI nerds! I don't usually chime in on stuff like this but I have to say that even though I use Venn every day to build and maintain our systems here at Barndoor...you know the makers of Venn. AI has drastically improved my throughput here but since we launched our products the whole teams' productivity has sky rocketed! Here is a common use case: Problem - We received a @Grafana alert around an anomalous set of errors in our, lets say, Flux Capacitor.
Initial Triage - I click the @Grafana alert link and preview the errors...there are a lot today for some reason...time travel isn't easy. The errors do not immediately result in any conclusive results.
Venn!!! - Connectors: @Grafana , Atlassian(Jira), @GitHub all configured with Venn to have minimal read only functionality except the ability to create a jira ticket.
Prompt - I'm seeing a surge in strange issues from our Flux Capacitor today. Here is a @Grafana link to the logs and the time range. Please:
Investigate the logs and correlate the findings with any running state in our Delorean during the times surrounding the incidents
Explain your findings and on my approval create a Jira ticket with the findings
Investigate the code base to find any potential mistakes in our time machine algorithms
Result - Nearly complete resolution of the issue from triage, to ticketing, to coding, and then review and merge 9 times out of 10 in under an hour.
Complex problems like these could often side track me for an entire day and now I'm back to building!
I'm biased because I helped create Venn with my team, but I think Venn is super useful. Instead of having to hook a ton of MCP servers to Cursor, Venn creates a sidekick that both finds my tools, runs them, and also makes sure I'm not doing something stupid in the process.
Great for those moments where you don't want to leave your flow but would like to post a ticket, consult a previous slack chat, write up org facing documentation, or see how your cluster's health is doing after deploying that last feature.
There's like a dozen business apps we all use and have to cross index on a daily basis. Venn is the portal to connect them all with your agent, and without having to bring a crufty platform along with you.
I've struggled with integrating multiple AI agents while maintaining control, so I love the guardrails feature in Venn! How customizable are the action-level permissions?
You start by improving daily workflows with @Venn.ai -- automating those cross-tool recurring tasks that give you back more of your time. Then you quickly change your frame of thought to preparation, execution, discovery and more. Ask yourself, "What are the benefits of connecting @Slack to @Google Calendar to @Gmail to @Jira?" Some of the things I've improved...
Daily task management
Call notes organization
Outstanding tasks
Personal follow-ups
Sprint deadline mgmt
Improved alert monitoring
They say good developers are producing 10X with AI. My hunch is that Venn will 10X the efforts of business professionals that can leverage a single connection to all their current applications.
This is great news. I have really benefited from using Venn with Claude and have wanted to try OpenClaw and now this will give me the confidence to try it. Great product.
@Venn.ai has made a huge difference in my day-to-day interaction with Claude - I can easily access a dozen MCPs simultaneously, and can direct it to talk to my personal email in one prompt and my business email in another. Getting customer info from salesforce, email, and granola, and summarizing it in a google sheet to plan followups has been incredibly powerful.
The product’s seamless integration into Openclaw has made it simple for me to let Openclaw interact with my apps but not do things it shouldn’t be doing. I run a sandboxed openclaw in a Digital Ocean droplet, and since it’s headless it’s really hard to authenticate to MCP servers. WIth @Venn.ai I simply told Openclaw to install the Venn skill, got an API key from Venn, and gave that key to Openclaw. And just like that Openclaw had access to the apps I wanted it to see, with limitations I set so it wouldn’t run wild.
