Pre Seed · AI & Machine Learning · Manchester, United Kingdom · Founded 2025 · 1–10 employees
Lichen AI is a human-centered AI design and workflow ethnography startup. The company operates an agentic platform designed to supercharge product discovery and requirements-gathering for enterprise AI implementations. By conducting automated, AI-driven stakeholder interviews at scale and analyzing transcripts alongside contextual documents, the platform helps organizations uncover team insights and generate structured, actionable requirements to build AI systems that align with human realities. The startup secured an early pre-seed funding round of approximately £754,200 to scale its operations.