CodeWords, operated by Agemo AI Ltd., today announced it has raised $9 million in seed funding led by Visionaries to build artificial intelligence agents that don’t wait to build automations. 

Firstminute Capital, which first backed the company at pre-seed, also participated in the round, alongside Sequel and Illusian, a Helsinki-based family office and venture platform co-founded by mobile game developer Supercell Oy Chief Executive Ilkka Paananen. 

In the usual lifecycle of no-code AI-driven automations, users spend hours on tedious work and discover that they have something they want to speed up. They pull up an AI tool and ask it to generate a solution. 

CodeWords said it’s trying to upend that practice with its tool. At the core of its platform is Cody, the company’s AI agent, which sits in the background watching everything that happens in a business — the tools, the goals and the operational patterns. 

Starting day one, it begins by suggesting and building automations. The automations run in the background without the need for human interaction across thousands of integrations and messaging tools. 

“The best operators don’t wait to be asked,” co-founder Aymeric Zhuo said. “We built Cody on the same principle — an agent that learns about your business, sees what needs doing, and delivers outcomes.”

Unlike vibe coding and agentic systems that wait for users to come to them, CodeWords said it wants to go beyond prototyping and chaining together systems. The company said that using AI agents as the glue, automations can be personalized to work for nontechnical staff, running entirely on CodeWords infrastructure to handle deployment, setup and maintenance over time. 

In one example sent by the company, a finance team described a deal monitoring workflow that Cody automated in minutes by connecting Dropbox to Monday.com, which sent documents and signatures over Docusign. In another example, a content agency put Cody to work on their social media channels, where the agentic system now automates finding relevant content, drafts posts and sends them via WhatsApp for approval before publication. 

The company said Cody now handles more than 500,000 of these tasks a month. 

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

Alongside the fundraise, CodeWords is launching three new capabilities for its platform: contextual memory, which lets Cody learn from past activity; WhatsApp support, so Cody can contact users where they work; and Cody modes, which allows the AI agent to adapt how it plans and executes according to the task at hand. 

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