Post-Amazon Adept Touts a Fresh Start Building Agents With Its Own "AWL" Language
About two months after co-founder and CEO David Luan and other core members departed for Amazon, Adept — now under new CEO Zach Brock — published an article introducing its proprietary workflow language, “Adept Workflow Language (AWL).” Rather than signaling the company’s demise, it was a statement that product development was continuing under a smaller team.
Details
- What AWL is: A proprietary language designed as a syntactic subset of JavaScript ES6, providing abstractions for describing multimodal web operations
- How it works: A model converts a user’s natural-language instructions into detailed AWL code, which is then executed directly as the agent’s operating procedure
- Leadership: Zach Brock, promoted from head of engineering, served as CEO, with Tim Weingarten as head of product — the product development team continued on even after the founding members’ departure
- Positioning: Aimed to show that, even after the major upheaval of licensing its technology to Amazon and losing talent, Adept was continuing to develop its own agent-building tools independently
What happened next
As far as this outlet could confirm, this article is the last substantive announcement on Adept’s official blog. No major new products or announcements from the company have surfaced between 2025 and 2026. On the Amazon side, David Luan, who moved there, went on to lead an AGI lab before reportedly leaving it in 2026 — meaning four of the original five core founders have now left Amazon (only Kelsey Szot remains on Amazon’s AGI team). Adept itself appears to still exist as a company, but given the lack of notable new developments, this outlet has held off on publishing a “latest news” article about it.