Cloudhands Aims to Tame AI Chaos with New Unified Platform

SAN DIEGO, CA – December 30, 2025 – In a move aimed at simplifying an increasingly fragmented artificial intelligence landscape, technology firm Cloudhands, Inc. has announced it is preparing to launch a unified AI platform. The announcement was coupled with the appointment of a new executive team, featuring veterans known for scaling a previous venture to a $500 million acquisition.

The San Diego-based company is positioning its platform as a central hub designed to streamline how users interact with a diverse and often disconnected array of AI tools. With a public launch anticipated in early 2026, Cloudhands is entering a burgeoning market by tackling a significant pain point for both casual users and enterprise clients: the operational chaos of managing multiple AI models, subscriptions, and workflows.

The Promise of a Unified AI Experience

As artificial intelligence continues its rapid integration into daily life and business operations, users often find themselves navigating a maze of specialized tools. A creative professional might use one AI for image generation, another for text creation, and a third for code assistance. This fragmentation creates silos, where conversation histories, learned context, and user data remain locked within individual platforms.

Cloudhands aims to dismantle these silos. The company's vision is a single, connected environment where users can seamlessly switch between leading AI models from providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, without losing their train of thought or their work. The platform is built on three core pillars:

• Unified Access: Providing a single interface and subscription to access a wide range of top-tier AI models, eliminating the need to manage multiple accounts and billing systems.

• Workflow Orchestration: Enabling users to coordinate tasks and automate processes across different AI services. This could allow for complex, multi-step projects where the output of one AI model becomes the input for another, all managed within a single workflow.

• Persistent Context: Perhaps the most ambitious feature, this promises a shared memory that travels with the user between different models and tasks. This means the platform would retain conversation history, documents, and creative assets, allowing for a more coherent and intelligent long-term collaboration with AI.

In a statement, newly appointed President Tom Hebert captured the platform's core value proposition. "Cloudhands gives users a single place to think, create, and collaborate with Al, and we believe a well-designed, unified approach reflects a real opportunity in the market," Hebert said. By centralizing the AI experience, the company hopes to make the technology more accessible, efficient, and powerful for a broader audience.

Leadership with a Blueprint for Growth

Underscoring the seriousness of its market entry is the strategic appointment of its new leadership. Tom Hebert joins as President and David Novick as Chief Marketing Officer, a duo with a significant shared history of success. Both were instrumental figures at Ecwid Ecommerce, a platform that provided e-commerce tools for small businesses.

Their tenure at Ecwid was marked by substantial growth, culminating in its acquisition by Lightspeed Commerce Inc. in 2021 for approximately $500 million. At the time of the sale, Ecwid was a global force, serving over 130,000 paying customers and reportedly experiencing 50% year-over-year revenue growth. Novick, in his marketing leadership role, was credited with helping scale the company's annual recurring revenue from the low single-digit millions to over $25 million. Hebert's appointment as President at Cloudhands suggests he held a key strategic role in Ecwid's journey.

This track record is critical. Launching a new platform into the hyper-competitive AI sector requires more than just a good idea; it demands flawless execution in product development, marketing, and scaling operations. The hiring of Hebert and Novick signals to investors and the market that Cloudhands is building a team not just to innovate, but to win a significant market share by replicating a proven growth playbook.

Navigating a Complex and Crowded Market

While the vision is compelling, Cloudhands faces considerable technical and competitive challenges. The concept of an AI aggregator or 'super-app' is not new, and the company enters a field where other startups and established players are also attempting to solve the integration problem. The market already includes API aggregators that offer developers a single point of access to multiple models, as well as sophisticated workflow automation tools that weave AI into business processes.

The technical hurdles are non-trivial. Integrating a diverse set of AI models, each with its own unique API, data format, and authentication method, requires a robust and flexible engineering architecture. Managing latency and ensuring a seamless user experience while orchestrating calls to multiple third-party services is a significant challenge. Furthermore, creating a truly 'persistent context' that is both useful and secure across different AI providers is a complex problem that touches on advanced state management and data privacy concerns.

Success will depend on how effectively Cloudhands' proprietary technology can overcome these issues and differentiate itself from competitors. The platform's ability to deliver a genuinely seamless and intuitive user experience, particularly for non-technical users, will be its primary test. The company's focus on a unified environment that combines access, workflow, and memory in one package appears to be its core strategic differentiator.

As the company prepares for its 2026 launch, the industry will be watching closely. Cloudhands has opened a waitlist on its website, Cloudhands.ai, for potential users interested in gaining early access and receiving launch notifications. The coming year will be pivotal as the team works to turn its ambitious vision into a tangible product that can deliver on the promise of simplifying our increasingly complex AI lives.