Autonomous enterprise software development company Ageiro is building what it calls “humanity’s last app”, aimed at resolving friction points in traditional software development and automating the entire software development lifecycle.

This will also mitigate software development talent shortages by enabling employees to build and manage AI solutions.

Founded by CEO Paulo Matos, chief engineer and technology officer Carlos de Matos and a team of technologists, the company aims to become a global platform of choice for the next generation of creators and enterprises.

I responds to faster, reliable and cost- efficient development and AI grounded in enterprise data intelligence.

With traditional development slow, resource intensive and heavily focused on maintenance rather than innovation, Ageiro aims to deliver production-ready software faster, amid ongoing debate about AI’s real-world impact.

Further, there is much conversation around AI and whether it has delivered on transformative expectations, including practical use cases.

“Has it actually created that productivity and efficiency uptick expected?” he questions, noting that while AI tools are widely accessible, they do not always translate into better decisions or outcomes. Generic AI tools and applications lack understanding of structure, relationships and governance within enterprise data, and are designed for broad, general use.

“[Ageiro] was born out of the observations . . . of friction points that were embedded in the system over many years – not from an organisational point of view, but from a historical software development point of view,” Matos tells Engineering News & Mining Weekly.

Since its launch in July last year, the company, registered in the UK, has established a global footprint, operating across the Europe, the Middle East and Africa region and with a presence in the United Arab Emirates, South Africa and North America.

Its vision: to build humanity’s last app.

Matos says the platform represents a major shift in how software is developed, offering “enterprise autonomy with enterprise discipline” as organisations seek faster development cycles and AI-driven productivity gains.

To deliver on this, Ageiro raised $3-million in December to accelerate the development of the agentic AI platform that will ultimately convert business intent directly into production-ready software.

It also enables the company to expand its go-to-market operations and launch its key products, ARK and SCALE, which is a focus for the first two quarters of this year following the completion of several proof-of-concepts among its existing global network.

“ARK is heavily focused on the engineering space, specifically architecture, engineering and construction (AEC), and SCALE is focused on the autonomous software development lifecycle, as a building block for any other product that either us or our customers wish to launch and to build out.”