CodeWords raises £6.6m seed to put AI agents in the hands of non-technical teams

CodeWords, a London-based AI agent startup, has raised £6.6 million ($9 million) in a seed round led by Visionaries Club, with participation from firstminute capital, Sequel and Illusian.

Workflow automation has long promised to let non-technical workers offload repetitive business tasks, but most tools still require users to design and maintain their own logic. CodeWords is pitching a different model: describe the outcome in plain English and an agent handles the build, deployment and ongoing maintenance.

The company's product, Cody, learns how a business operates by mapping its tools, goals and patterns, then suggests and runs automations across more than 3,000 integrations including Asana, Dropbox, Monday.com, Docusign and WhatsApp. Examples cited by the company include a finance team that automated deal-flow monitoring by linking Dropbox to Monday.com and routing documents for signature, and a content agency that used Cody to source posts, get approvals over WhatsApp and publish automatically. The agent currently runs around 500,000 workflows a month, and the company is signing its first enterprise deals.

CodeWords was founded in 2023 by Aymeric Zhuo and Osman Ramadan, who met at an applied AI lab set up by former DeepMind staff. The company began as Agemo, an AI research lab working on neurosymbolic reasoning that contributed to the ARC-AGI benchmark, before the founders pivoted into a commercial product for operators, agencies and go-to-market teams. CodeWords employs 14 people in London and was previously backed at pre-seed by firstminute capital.

Alongside the round, CodeWords is launching contextual memory, WhatsApp support and task-specific Cody modes. The funding will be used to expand engineering and go-to-market teams and to open a San Francisco office. The cap table also includes angels Andrey Khusid (Miro), Mati Staniszewski (ElevenLabs), Hanno Renner (Personio), Robert Gentz (Zalando), Ilkka Paananen (Supercell), Alexandre Berriche (Fleet), Kieran Flanagan (HubSpot) and François Chollet (ARC Prize), along with executives at OpenAI, Mistral, n8n and Zapier.

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