London-based CodeWords has secured $9m in seed funding to build a platform enabling non-technical users to create complex workflow automations through simple text prompts. Visionaries led the round with participation from Firstminute Capital, Sequel and Illusian, alongside angels including Miro CEO Andrey Khusid and ElevenLabs CEO Mati Staniszewski.

The platform, called Cody, lets users describe desired automations in plain language—such as monitoring competitor pricing every three days and alerting teams via Slack or WhatsApp. CodeWords already executes 500k workflows monthly for agencies and go-to-market teams, with 85 integrations including Asana, Dropbox and Facebook. The company is now signing its first enterprise clients.

CodeWords positions itself between "vibe-coding" tools like Lovable—which raised $330m in December at a $6.6bn valuation—and more technical platforms like German startup N8n. Visionaries partner Robert Jäckle, also an N8n investor, says CodeWords bridges a gap where non-technical users can now build complex automations previously requiring coding expertise.

The 14-person London team plans to open a San Francisco office and expand go-to-market and engineering headcount. Founder Aymeric Zhuo aims to embed proactive task completion into the platform later this year, allowing it to execute workflows without user prompts.