Building an edge-AI pipeline usually starts with a blank YAML file and/or several code files and a stack of decisions. Which model, what pre-processing, or how to wire the post-processing. Since you're here, it's reasonable to assume you know this drill.
Voyager® Wingman is here to change all that.
Talk To Me, Goose!
Voyager Wingman builds working pipelines for Axelera hardware from natural language prompts. You describe what you want to make, it generates the Voyager pipeline, and it runs that pipeline right there on your device so you can watch it work and refine in real-time. Not slideware, but a real pipeline you can pick up and keep iterating on.
It's useful well past the first build, too. Stuck on why your card won't enumerate, or what's throttling your throughput? Voyager Wingman knows the SDK inside and out, and will help you deep dive on any issues or obstacles. This is helpful for people with existing Axelera projects, as well as anyone who's building something new.
The Need for Speed
You should be spending your time on what you’re trying to build instead of the boilerplate around it. Voyager Wingman lowers the barrier to a first working pipeline and takes the friction out of the sticky bits in between.
The name is deliberate. A wingman flies alongside you: fast, capable, and following your lead. Voyager Wingman doesn't do the thinking for you and it won't replace your judgement or skills. It's a power tool, and power tools reward skill, rather than replacing them. You point it, you steer it, you decide what "good" looks like.
Permission to Engage
You're always the captain, so Voyager Wingman asks before it acts. When it wants to read a file, run a command or change something, it checks in first, so you can approve it, tweak the orders, or wave it through. And because it works from the Voyager SDK and Axelera documentation rather than guessing, you can always see what it based a call on, and be confident that it’s working from the latest blueprints.
No rogue maneuvers.
Cleared for Takeoff
We're handing Voyager Wingman to the people most likely to push it hard: you. Our… top guns, if you like.
Access is simple, and free. Registering here on the Axelera community sets you up with a Voyager Wingman account. Then you can click the button to jump over into the web chat or download the app. And if you’ve any feedback, comments or questions, you can post straight away in the community’s Voyager group.
Voyager Wingman meets you wherever you're flying from. Jump into web chat with your Axelera account and simply describe what you want to build. The web chat is ideal for planning, questions and quick reviews. Do you want terminals, local files and a card in the loop? Download the desktop app. The Linux build works for direct Voyager and Metis work, and the macOS version (coming soon) is great for planning, authoring and reviewing. Already scrambling in Claude Code, Codex or Gemini? Soon, you’ll be able to connect Wingman's tools once and fly it from there.
One straight-talking note for the hardware track: running a pipeline on an Axelera device needs the Linux app on a machine with a card. Web chat will happily plan and write the pipeline, but the card work happens on Linux.
Take it to the Limit
To show what Voyager Wingman can do in the real world, we're launching The Prompt, an Axelera AI community challenge built on Dell hardware. Ten selected builders will each receive a Dell Pro Slim Plus XE5 fitted with a Metis PCIe AIPU and race to turn a plain-language prompt into a working edge AI vision pipeline, live and in public. The challenge launches 15 July 2026 at community.axelera.ai, with winners judged on originality, technical merit, and edge viability.
Got an idea for what edge AI could see or do? Pitch your project and you could be one of the ten builders shipped a full development kit to bring it to life.
Every Maverick Needs a Wingman
So here's the mission: whatever you make, test or break, post it in the Axelera community. Show your working, too (a screen recording, the prompt you used, maybe a before-and-after against the old blank-YAML way). We'll be reading, replying, and hunting for the experiments that make us go, "hang on, you built that from a prompt?" We can’t wait to see how you do, and to see the most creative ways you achieve something amazing, including epic fails.
The first task is to create an account here on the Axelera community so you can get (free) access to Voyager Wingman and get started immediately with a €25 token voucher.
Welcome to Voyager Wingman. It's time to buzz the tower.
