Alessio Alionço wanted automation to be as intuitive as IKEA furniture—modular, accessible, and built for real people.
That idea didn’t come from theory. It came from his experience spent consulting small businesses in Brazil, where he saw teams buried in spreadsheet sprawl, email chains, and siloed data. The processes were inefficient, the tools too rigid, and the people closest to the work didn’t have the support—or IT bandwidth—to fix it.
So he built his own platform.
In 2015, Alionço founded Pipefy, a no-code process automation platform designed to help business teams build and optimize workflows without needing to write a single line of code. His goal was accessibility: make automation usable by anyone, in any department, without waiting on engineering. Today, Pipefy is used globally and has a client roster that includes IBM, Visa, Santander, and Kraft Heinz.
More recently, the company launched Pipefy AI, giving users the ability to build workflows and extract insights with the help of GPT-4. The platform is now helping teams standardize and scale their operations faster than ever—without adding complexity or reliance on IT.
Alionço still gets ideas off the ground the same way he always has: by listening closely, solving real problems, and staying connected to founders navigating similar challenges. Because for him, great technology is just the starting point—it’s what people build with it that matters.
