CodeWords, a London-based startup aiming to provide firms with fully autonomous AI agents, has secured a $9m (£6.6m) seed investment.
Founded in 2023, CodeWords is aiming to take agentic AI use among businesses to a deeper level.
Instead of deploying agents that receive instructions and complete tasks, CodeWords aims to have agents that learn the day-to-day operations of a business and autonomously works to suggest and build automations.
The goal is to surpass the appeal of vibe coding by giving non-technical workers the ability to benefit from personalised AI creations.
“The best operators don’t wait to be asked. We built Cody on the same principle — an agent that learns about your business, sees what needs doing, and delivers outcomes,” said Aymeric Zhuo, co-founder of CodeWords.
The company has been backed by Visionaries, Firstminute Capital, Sequel, and Illusian as well as angels from firms including Hubspot, ElevenLabs and Supercell.
“Most automation tools promise simplicity but still require technical thinking underneath. CodeWords is one of the first products we’ve seen where that truly disappears — you describe the task, and Cody runs it,” said Robert Jäckle, a partner at visionaries.
“What impressed us just as much is the team’s speed and conviction: Aymeric and Osman moved from research to a working product in a matter of months. That combination is very rare and hugely exciting.”
