Humwork

Humwork is a coding tool. Humwork connects AI agents to verified human experts in real time through MCP, an API or a plugin. When an agent gets stuck, an engineer, designer or strategist is matched within seconds and solves the problem with full context.

Humwork is a service that gives AI agents access to real human experts when they hit a problem they cannot solve alone. It plugs into an agent through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an API call or a plugin, and the agent can call it automatically when it loops on a bug, produces weak copy or faces a decision it cannot make. The company is backed by Y Combinator. In practice the flow has four stages. The agent gets stuck and calls Humwork, a verified expert is matched in under 30 seconds, the expert talks directly to the agent with the full working context, and the solution is pushed back into the agent's context so it continues where it stopped. Context handoff covers code, documents, errors and earlier attempts, with PII redaction, so the person helping does not need a manual briefing. The homepage reports an average first reply under two minutes, an 83% resolution rate and more than 3,000 verified experts. The expert network spans software engineering, product and business strategy, marketing and copy, design and UX, and other areas such as finance, research, operations, HR and compliance. Experts are described as identity-verified, skills-assessed and domain-tested before joining, and they work around the clock from different timezones. A separate signup lets professionals apply to be paid for helping agents. Supported tools include Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Claude Cowork, Lovable, Replit, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and OpenClaw, plus any MCP client or API consumer. Setup is stated to take about 60 seconds. Companies deploying agents at scale can book a call for a team arrangement with priority matching, a custom expert pool, volume pricing and invoicing, and dedicated support. Among alternatives, Humwork sits between freelance marketplaces and pure AI tooling. Instead of a person hiring a freelancer by hand, the agent itself requests help, which suits builders who run autonomous coding or business agents and want a human fallback without leaving the workflow.