PART I OF III - SYNOPSIS
Codewords says you can describe any business task in plain English and have an AI agent running it around the clock within minutes. No code. No IT team. No catching up on Monday morning.
There is a version of your working week where the emails chase themselves, the leads find themselves, the competitor pricing tracks itself, and the social posts go out on their own.
Not because you hired someone to do it, but because you typed a sentence and an AI agent took it from there.
That is what Codewords is selling, and in May 2026, a room full of people who know what good looks like - including the CEOs of Miro, ElevenLabs, Supercell, and Zalando - decided it was worth backing to the tune of €7.6 million.
Founded by Aymeric Zhuo and Osman Ramadan, Codewords is a London-based AI automation platform that lets non-technical teams build and run AI agents through plain-English conversation.
No coding required.
No IT department needed.
You describe the task, the platform builds the workflow, and the agent runs it - continuously, in the background, whether you're in a meeting or on holiday.
The company already processes 500,000 automated tasks per month.
It has 85 integrations. It is starting to sign enterprise deals, and it is operating in a market - UK AI workforce automation - currently valued at $4.4 billion and projected to nearly double by 2031.
We spent time digging into how it really works, what makes it different, and where the gaps lie.
What we found was more interesting than the headline suggests.
"Words in, working agents out." - Codewords
Products like this don't come from nowhere.
They come from decisions.
And behind Codewords sits a decision that two founders made - one that most people in their position would never have made - that shapes everything about what this company is and why it exists.
Before we get to the machine, we need to understand the people who built it.
That story changes how you see everything else. Stay a little longer for Part II.
