CodeWords raises $9M

CodeWords started with a simple frustration: most automation tools promise to save you time, but they still expect you to think like an engineer to use them. You still have to map the logic, set the triggers, maintain the workflows. The tool is doing less work than advertised, and you're doing more.

We wanted to fix that, but we didn't want another interface. Instead, we wanted an agent that actually gets to work — one that learns your business and builds before you ask.

Today, we're announcing a $9M seed round to do exactly that.

The round is led by Visionaries, with participation from firstminute capital (our pre-seed backers), Sequel, and Illusian — the family office behind some of Europe's most iconic tech companies.

We're also joined by a group of angel investors we're genuinely proud to have in our corner: Andrey Khusid (CEO of Miro), Mati Staniszewski (CEO of ElevenLabs), Hanno Renner (CEO of Personio), Robert Gentz (CEO of Zalando), Ilkka Paananen (CEO of Supercell), Kieran Flanagan (CMO at HubSpot), and François Chollet (Co-founder of the ARC Prize) — alongside leaders from OpenAI, Mistral, n8n, and Zapier.

These are people who have built at enormous scale, and who have seen firsthand how much time and money gets lost to work that should already be automated. They get what we're building.

Meet Cody

At the core of CodeWords is Cody — an AI agent that learns your business from day one: your tools, your patterns, your goals — and then gets to work.

A finance team described a deal flow monitoring process and Cody automated it in minutes, connecting Dropbox to Monday.com and routing documents to DocuSign for signature. A content agency pointed Cody at LinkedIn and Reddit; it now scrapes relevant content, drafts posts, sends them via WhatsApp for approval, and publishes automatically. Another agency built a fleet of agents to run lead generation services for their entire client base.

Cody already handles 120,000 tasks a month, and every one of them runs entirely on CodeWords' infrastructure without any deployment hassle, maintenance, or setup.

"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." — Aymeric Zhuo, Co-founder

What's launching today

Alongside the round, we're shipping three new capabilities:

Contextual memory. Cody now learns from past activity and accumulated context — so it can act before it's asked, not just respond when prompted.

WhatsApp agents. Cody meets your team where they already are, sending updates, requesting approvals, and completing tasks through WhatsApp.

Cody Modes. Different tasks need different approaches. Cody Modes adapt how Cody plans and executes depending on what's in front of it.

"We want users to feel like they're working with an agent that already knows their business. Cody learns continuously — so instead of starting from scratch every time, it's already thinking about what you need next."— Osman Ramadan, Co-founder

The people behind it

Aymeric grew up in French Guiana, working in his parents' grocery and restaurant — immigrants from rural China who had built something from nothing with just enough French to get by. He went on to study at École Polytechnique, and later worked as a data scientist on Candy Crush and a product manager at TikTok.

Osman grew up outside Khartoum, in a household regularly visited by the intelligence services because his father, an academic, spoke his mind. He taught himself to code at eleven, without a computer, before going on to Cambridge and a research career at Microsoft.

When they met at an AI startup in London, they recognized something in each other immediately. Both had had to out-work and out-learn their way through systems that weren't built for them. Neither had much patience for tools that assumed you already knew what you were doing.

That's the problem CodeWords exists to solve.

What's next

The $9M goes toward expanding our engineering and go-to-market teams. The goal is straightforward: make Cody the agent that runs quietly in the background of every business, learning, anticipating, and acting, so that teams without IT resources can operate like ones that have one.

We're just getting started.