We're not building a better flowchart editor. We're replacing it.
The people who run business processes can describe them perfectly in plain English. Every existing tool then asks them to re-express that description in a different language — triggers, modules, field mappings. We think that's the wrong approach, and we built Agenno to prove it.
The founding story
In 2023, Aymeric Zhuo was working as an operations consultant at a Bristol logistics company. His job was to document processes and improve them — which he did. The SOPs were thorough, clear, and written in plain English. They were also completely inert. Every time he wanted to turn a written process into an actual automation, it meant a Jira ticket to IT, a conversation about API keys, and weeks of back-and-forth while the process changed under them.
He talked to Priya Desai — who'd spent years building integration infrastructure at a London fintech — and the problem was immediately recognisable from both sides. The ops person could describe exactly what should happen. The engineer knew how to build it. The gap was the tool in between. Every existing workflow builder required the ops person to think like an engineer.
They built Agenno in 2024 to close that gap: type what should happen in plain English, and Agenno handles the wiring. No flowchart editor. No API keys. No developer queue. We're a small team in Bristol's Temple Quarter, and we think the ops manager deserves the same quality of tooling as the engineer.
Ops expertise. Engineering depth. Product instinct.
How we think about the work
We're in Bristol's Temple Quarter
Temple Quarter is Bristol's fastest-growing tech cluster, centred around Temple Meads station. It's where the city's engineering and digital economy meets — universities, startups, and established businesses all within walking distance of each other.
You'll find us at 1 Temple Way, Bristol BS2 0BY. We're always happy to talk to ops teams and people thinking about automation — say hello at [email protected].