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Nexus — Empowering Business Teams to Build Enterprise-Grade AI Agents Without Code

Ksenia Yevtushenko -

Nexus is a Brussels-based startup redefining how enterprises approach artificial intelligence. Founded in 2024 by Assem Chammah and Shady Al Shoha, the company emerged from the growing frustration shared by countless business leaders: enterprise AI projects are failing at staggering rates because teams can’t build or adapt fast enough. Nexus solves this by enabling non-technical business teams to create production-ready AI agents without writing a single line of code.

Part of Y Combinator’s Fall 2025 batch, Nexus is already helping over ten major enterprises—including Orange Belgium and Waterland Private Equity—transform their operations through AI automation. With its “business-led” approach, Nexus bridges the gap between vision and execution, democratizing AI development across industries.

Why Do 95% of Enterprise AI Projects Fail?

According to an MIT report from August 2025, 95% of enterprise AI initiatives fail before they deliver value. The root cause isn’t a lack of ideas or funding—it’s the bottleneck in implementation.

In most organizations, the business teams know exactly what they need: a sales AI agent to qualify leads, a recruitment agent to screen candidates, or a support bot to resolve customer tickets. However, they are completely dependent on the engineering department to build it. The engineering backlog stretches six to twelve months, and by the time development begins, both technology and business requirements have already shifted.

Even worse, once an agent is deployed, making simple adjustments—like updating a prompt or changing data sources—requires new tickets, waiting cycles, and internal approvals. The result? Missed opportunities and outdated solutions in a world moving at AI speed.

Nexus recognized this systemic flaw and decided to attack the problem at its core: the speed and ownership of AI deployment.

How Does Nexus Empower Non-Technical Teams?

Nexus introduces a no-code enterprise AI platform designed for business users. Its premise is simple but revolutionary: if teams can describe their needs in plain English, they can build an AI agent in days—not months.

1. Create Agents With Natural Language

Users can write a simple instruction such as:

“Build an agent that screens job applications, checks LinkedIn profiles, and schedules interviews.”

Nexus interprets the intent, scaffolds the logic, and builds the agent automatically. What once required coordination between product managers, data scientists, and engineers now takes minutes.

2. Connect to the Entire Company Stack

The platform integrates seamlessly with more than 4,000 business applications and supports custom API connections, giving users full access to CRMs, ERPs, HR systems, and databases. There’s no vendor lock-in—enterprises retain control and flexibility while expanding their AI capabilities.

3. Visual Agent Builder

The drag-and-drop interface allows users to design complex agentic workflows visually. Instead of coding logic, they orchestrate actions, decisions, and integrations through intuitive blocks.

4. Nexus Flow: Intelligence Meets Reliability

Traditional automation tools often fail when workflows evolve. Robotic Process Automation (RPA) systems break under small process changes, while AI-driven agents sometimes hallucinate or behave unpredictably.
Nexus Flow combines the adaptive intelligence of AI with the rigidity of traditional automation, letting teams define exactly when the agent should think creatively and when it must execute with perfect precision.

This hybrid approach ensures that AI agents are both smart and trustworthy, capable of learning but never improvising where reliability matters most.

What Real-World Results Has Nexus Achieved?

A powerful example of Nexus’s impact comes from Orange Belgium, one of Europe’s largest telecom companies. The digital team at Orange needed to modernize customer onboarding and sales interactions, which had stagnated under outdated chatbots and rigid scripts.

Within one week, a non-technical team member used Nexus to build a fully functional AI sales agent that:

  • Connected to Orange’s entire product catalog and internal systems
  • Deployed seamlessly on WhatsApp, reaching customers directly where they communicate
  • Engaged customers with natural, persuasive conversations
  • Handled objections and guided users through purchasing decisions

The outcome was transformational:

  • $4 million+ in new monthly revenue
  • 50% increase in conversion rates
  • 10-point boost in customer satisfaction

As Laurent Stevens, Orange Belgium’s Digital Performance Specialist, put it:

“With Nexus, we've given every prospect a knowledgeable consultant available 24/7. It's like speaking to our best-trained advisor, anytime.”

This case validated Nexus’s mission—empowering non-engineers to create enterprise-grade AI agents that deliver measurable business impact.

How Did Nexus Emerge From the AI Trenches?

Founders Assem Chammah and Shady Al Shoha have been building AI systems since 2019—long before the explosion of tools like ChatGPT. They spent years helping large organizations deploy machine learning and language model systems. Across every project, they saw the same pattern repeat: companies spent months and millions rebuilding identical infrastructure from scratch.

Each enterprise required:

  • Prompt engineering frameworks
  • Evaluation pipelines
  • Testing and monitoring systems
  • Integration layers
  • Deployment infrastructure

Every project started over from zero. This duplication of effort wasted time, resources, and innovation potential.

The founders realized the world didn’t need more bespoke AI solutions—it needed a shared enterprise-grade foundation that any business team could build on. The goal was clear: “Build once, scale everywhere.”

Nexus was born from that insight—a unifying platform to eliminate repetitive engineering work and let business teams focus on results.

What Makes Nexus Different From Other AI Tools?

The enterprise AI landscape is crowded, but Nexus stands apart through its focus on business autonomy. While many tools help data scientists or developers, Nexus empowers non-technical professionals—sales leaders, consultants, operations managers—to own AI initiatives from ideation to production.

Key Differentiators:

  • No-Code Simplicity, Enterprise Strength: Designed for Fortune 500-scale reliability, yet accessible to everyday users.
  • Full-Stack Integration: Works across cloud systems, internal APIs, and third-party apps.
  • Agentic Flow Control: Unique technology balancing adaptability and accuracy.
  • Speed to Production: Build and deploy in days instead of quarters.
  • Scalability: Proven to serve thousands of real users with measurable ROI.

In other words, Nexus isn’t just a tool—it’s an enabler of organizational agility. It allows enterprises to act with the speed of startups while maintaining the security and governance of large-scale systems.

How Is Nexus Shaping the Future of Enterprise AI?

AI adoption in enterprises has long been slowed by cultural and technical barriers. Business teams understand problems, while engineering teams understand technology—but their workflows rarely align. Nexus is dissolving that wall, creating a new kind of collaboration where strategy meets automation instantly.

By democratizing access to AI agent creation, Nexus is not only accelerating project delivery—it’s changing how organizations operate. It’s ushering in a future where AI is as easy to deploy as a PowerPoint deck, and where innovation no longer depends on engineering bandwidth.

For founders Assem and Shady, the mission goes beyond technology. It’s about unlocking human potential—allowing every business expert to turn their insight into an intelligent system, every team into an automation powerhouse, and every enterprise into a faster, smarter, more adaptive organization.

What’s Next for Nexus?

Nexus continues to expand across Europe and the U.S., onboarding new enterprise partners and refining its platform for scale. With interest from sectors like finance, telecommunications, and consulting, the company is positioning itself as a cornerstone in the emerging category of “Business-Led AI.”

Its roadmap includes:

  • Enhanced governance and compliance modules for regulated industries
  • Expanded plugin libraries for domain-specific automation
  • AI copilots that assist users in designing more efficient workflows
  • Global partnerships to bring Nexus to enterprise ecosystems worldwide

The ultimate vision? A future where every enterprise can deploy its own AI workforce—built, managed, and optimized by the business itself.

In summary, Nexus represents a fundamental shift in enterprise AI—from slow, engineer-dependent pipelines to fast, business-led innovation. By giving non-technical teams the power to create production-ready agents, Nexus is not just building software—it’s building the foundation for a new era of AI-enabled business autonomy.