About VibeWaggler — A Product of G8 Engineering
VibeWaggler helps service businesses turn reviews, messages, and customer conversations into a reputation engine. Built by G8 Engineering in Jamestown, NC.
Who We Are
VibeWaggler is a product of G8 Engineering, a Jamestown, North Carolina-based AI systems firm founded in December 2025. We build focused software products for small and mid-sized service businesses.
Built, not briefed. VibeWaggler was born from a specific problem our clients kept facing: reviews, messages, and customer follow-up were eating hours every week, yet they directly shaped whether new customers chose them. We built the system we wished they had.
- Product
- VibeWaggler — review and reputation management
- Company
- G8 Engineering
- Founded
- December 2025
- Headquarters
- 203 E Main Street, PO Box 1132, Jamestown, NC 27282-9828, United States
- Phone
- (336) 497-1529
- Website
- vibewaggler.com
- linkedin.com/company/112881505
The Problem We Exist to Solve
Service businesses live and die by reputation. Reviews, local search rankings, and inbound messages are not marketing extras — they are the front door of the business.
But most owners and managers handle them manually. Reading reviews across platforms. Writing responses one by one. Trying to remember who asked what in which inbox. Hours every week that could go toward running the business.
The existing tools either do too little or too much. They aggregate reviews but don't answer them. They send alerts but don't act on them. They promise automation but still need you to write every response.
That tradeoff is dead.
VibeWaggler reads, analyzes, and responds across platforms — in your brand voice, with your oversight, without your team doing the repetitive work. It turns reputation management from a chore into a system.
Leadership
Juan Hernandez
Co-founder, VibeWaggler & G8 Engineering
"The best product work starts with listening. VibeWaggler exists because business owners told us exactly what was wasting their time."
Juan's background spans Amazon, Reynolds American, Sales Factory, and a Verizon subsidiary — with an MBA from Wake Forest University and AI coursework at Kellogg. He is also an Adjunct Professor of the Practice at Wake Forest University, where he teaches digital marketing and analytics in the School of Professional Studies' Master of Digital Marketing program and marketing research in the School of Business. He leads product and strategy for VibeWaggler, working directly with service businesses to understand how reviews, reputation, and customer conversations shape revenue.
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Manuel Castro
Co-Founder, G8 Engineering
"We don't ship demos. We ship systems that run in production on day one and keep running on day three hundred."
Manuel builds the technical foundation behind VibeWaggler — retrieval pipelines, response generation, guardrails, and real-time integrations. He is the reason the system works on day one and keeps working on day three hundred. His approach: build it right the first time, so you don't spend the next quarter fixing it.
Connect on LinkedInOur Virtues
We use virtues instead of values for a reason. Values are stated. Virtues are practiced. We push boundaries, we test, we fail, we learn — until we find the sweet spot.
Candor
Speak up bravely, listen humbly.
We speak up when it matters, even when it's uncomfortable, because the truth needs to be heard. At the same time, we stay curious and open to being wrong, recognizing that ideas can come from anywhere.
Resourcefulness
Be scrappy, invest wisely.
We make things happen with whatever resources we have, getting creative and scrappy to drive progress without excuses. We also invest wisely for the future, knowing when to spend strategically to unlock bigger opportunities.
Ownership
Act like an owner, think long-term.
We take ownership of outcomes and think like owners, considering the long-term impact of our decisions. We don't wait for someone else — we step up and take responsibility.
Wisdom
Embrace mistakes, demand growth.
We embrace mistakes as learning opportunities and aren't afraid to try new things that might not work. However, we expect learning and growth from every experience, never accepting the same mistake twice.
Drive
Compete fiercely, collaborate generously.
We compete to win and be our best, pushing ourselves and our standards higher every day. But we lift others as we climb, knowing that true champions make everyone around them better.
Sponsor
Be kind, never complacent.
We care about each other as people, treating everyone with kindness and respect. We also care too much to let each other settle for less than our potential, having the hard conversations that help people grow.
Ready to See What VibeWaggler Can Do?
Tell us what your team deals with every week. We'll show you what changes when reviews and messages stop being a manual job.
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