Our Story
From MIT teammates to enterprise automation pioneers
Tim Butala and Tim Higgins first met as incoming high school basketball recruits to MIT. They became teammates, fraternity brothers, and lifelong friends. After gaining valuable experience in both startup and corporate environments, they decided to reunite to tackle one of business's most persistent challenges.
The inspiration for Windbreaker.ai came from a real-world problem at O'Keefe Controls, a family-run manufacturing company. Tim B. witnessed firsthand how valuable time was lost to manual coordination between systems that should work seamlessly together. Customer emails sat unprocessed, orders required multiple manual handoffs, and critical information fell through the cracks.
In 2025, we founded Windbreaker.ai with a mission to eliminate these operational inefficiencies. Our core philosophy is that AI should amplify human capabilities, not replace human judgment. We believe the best automation solutions are invisible to end users while dramatically improving business outcomes.
Today, we're building the next generation of business automation—one that's intelligent enough to handle complexity, reliable enough for mission-critical operations, and intuitive enough for any team to adopt. We're just getting started on our journey to transform how businesses operate.
"Building the future of intelligent business automation, one workflow at a time."