About Us

We believe software
should work for people,
not the other way around.

AskCipher began with a simple frustration: business applications are powerful enough to run entire companies, but the people using them still have to learn menus, fields, workflows, and workarounds. We are building the layer between human intent and software execution, so teams can say what they need and let their systems respond.

The Hive
February 2024: Carlos Palacio frames a private AI environment with a general interface, company context, and specialized workers.
F.UI
July 2024: the thesis sharpens into Forget-the-User Interface, a system that adapts to industry language and user context.
Cipher
October 2024: the vision becomes the last interface for business applications, bridging human intent and software execution.

Our story

How the founding thesis became the last interface.

The earliest concept was called The Hive: a private AI environment made of a general interface, company-specific contextual intelligence, and specialised workers for any business task, across any system. Even then, the important idea was not novelty for its own sake. It was context, privacy, and action inside the tools companies already rely on.

That idea evolved into F.UI, short for Forget-the-User Interface. The problem had become sharper: ERP, CRM, HCM, and finance systems are feature-rich, but they ask every user to adapt to the software. AskCipher turns that around by translating business language into the right software action for each organization, industry, and workflow.

Today we describe that as the last interface for business applications. AskCipher is not another dashboard or chatbot sitting beside your work. It is a command layer that understands your stack, your permissions, your vocabulary, and your processes, then executes the work where it already belongs.

Philosophy

What we believe.

Context before action

Useful AI for business cannot be generic. It needs to understand the user's role, the company's language, the application's schema, and the industry context before it touches a workflow.

The system should adapt

Teams should not need expensive customizations or long training cycles just to get value from their business systems. The interface should learn the organization, not force the organization to bend around the interface.

Privacy by architecture

The original vision put company context inside the client's protected environment. That remains central: intelligence gets more valuable when it learns your business, so the architecture must respect ownership, permissions, and control.

Team

The people building it.

A small team with deep experience in enterprise software, AI, and business operations.

Meet the team

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Want to be part of
what we're building?

If you know enterprise software from the inside and want to make it feel dramatically simpler, we would like to hear from you.

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