Because your science won’t speak for itself Pitching a deep tech startup is hard. Pitching it to a room of non-technical investors? Even harder. At Vortex IQ, we’ve built an agentic AI platform that turns APIs into intelligent workers. The architecture is layered, the models are
A Founder’s Retrospective from the Vortex IQ Journey “Build in public” isn’t just a trend. It’s a mindset — of openness, accountability, and momentum. But like any strategy, it’s not without trade-offs. At Vortex IQ, we embraced building in public early. From announcing our first AI
How One Retailer Scaled Personalisation and Conversions Without a Data Science Team When people hear AI recommendations, they often think of Amazon-style tech stacks or expensive data science teams. But what if you could achieve similar gains—automatically—with no engineers, no code, and no steep learning curve?
From Boardrooms to Breakthroughs: My Journey into Founding Vortex IQ Leaving a stable, well-paying corporate job isn’t an easy decision—especially when you’ve spent years climbing the ladder, delivering high-impact projects, and building a reputation in the enterprise technology space. But in my case, the bigger risk
Why we believe downturns are the best time to build durable companies At Vortex IQ, we launched and scaled during what many called a “down cycle” for tech. VC funding was down. Startups were cutting back. And yet—we chose to build, hire, and launch. Not out
How one unconventional decision shaped our entire startup trajectory When people hear we’re building an AI platform, they assume our first hire was a software engineer. It wasn’t. It was a Customer Success & Innovation Lead. Why? Because at Vortex IQ, we believed our competitive edge
What we learnt scaling Vortex IQ across 4 continents and 6 time zones When we started Vortex IQ, we were remote by design — not by necessity. Today, our team spans the UK, India, Europe, Southeast Asia, and North America. And while it sounds global and
Scaling fast is great — but scaling wrong is fatal. In the early days of a startup, it’s tempting to chase speed at all costs. Ship faster. Hire faster. Raise faster. But here’s the uncomfortable truth: speed without culture breaks companies. At Vortex IQ, we learnt
What we learnt while closing our first round for Vortex IQ Raising a pre-seed round in the UK is not the same as raising in Silicon Valley. The funding culture, investor mindset, and even the jargon often feel different — more cautious, more diligence-driven, and more
Shipping fast is impressive. Shipping the right things fast — and making them better with every release — is a competitive advantage. At Vortex IQ, we ship meaningful product updates every week. Not just UI tweaks, but fully functional features — from new AI agents to
In AI product development, speed matters — but experimentation is everything. At Vortex IQ, our platform empowers teams to go from a natural language hypothesis to a fully functional, API-connected AI agent in under an hour. That means less guesswork, faster iteration, and more validated learning
At Vortex IQ, our mission is to transform how businesses turn data and insights into action. To make this possible, we built an Autonomous AI Task Execution Engine — a system that enables intelligent agents to understand goals, plan tasks, execute actions via APIs, and learn