SeEat: AI Menu Scanner
iOS App
Order with confidence from menus you can't read: see every dish, what's in it, and allergens to watch for, in 39 languages.
Curating the Next Wave of Human-Information Interaction
Causally is an AI-native studio. We build our own apps on the AI-assistant paradigm, and help companies rebuild key workflows around it.
Backed by
Works
Developing
Apps we build and run
We build for problems we have run into ourselves, and only where AI can now do clearly better than the tools we had.
Peac.is
Web Application
Information keeps multiplying, but human attention and bandwidth do not. Search and recommendation were built for a world before AI. AI now makes a new paradigm possible, and with it, applications that could not exist before.
Paradigm shift
From search and recommendation to AI curation
- 01 Search People find information
- 02 Recommendation Information finds people
- 03 Curation AI understands intent and acts
Impact
Delivered faster.
Delivered faster.
For far less.
In our first four months we shipped two consumer apps and delivered two custom agents for clients. Applied to your business, that means a working system in weeks, not a strategy deck in months.
2
days from idea to
SeEat on the App Store
10
days to deliver a government agent,
replacing a ¥900,000 outsourced build
50×
target build speed,
relative to traditional software teams
When cognition can be copied and scaled like electricity, a team is no longer measured by headcount, but by what each person can deliver.
AI-Native Transformation
Build the first AI system your team can own
Beyond our own products, we build AI-native systems with established organizations: start from one high-value workflow, ship a working reference system, then hand the architecture, evaluation methods and engineering practice to your team.
Decision intelligence & research01
Systems that continuously collect, structure and analyze information for research, due diligence and management decisions.
Workflow & operating agents02
Agents that take part in recurring processes: monitoring data, flagging exceptions, recommending, and acting within defined permissions.
Knowledge & document intelligence03
Fragmented documents and communications, turned into an operating layer you can search, compare and trace.
Operational AI & optimization04
AI connected to inventory, production, pricing and formulation to support day-to-day operating decisions.
Client-facing AI products05
Proprietary methods and service workflows, turned into scalable digital products with expert review where it matters.
FAQ
Your questions, answered
How Causally works, what we build, and where we are headed.
What does Causally actually do?
Two kinds of work. For people, we build AI apps for everyday problems we have run into ourselves and that AI can now solve better, like SeEat, which helps you order from menus you cannot read. For businesses, we work with your team to turn one high-value workflow into a working AI system, faster and at lower cost than a traditional build, then hand it over for your team to own. Behind both is a small AI-native team where every person directs AI to deliver whole outcomes.
What does "Causally" mean?
Causally is the adverb for following cause and effect. The Chinese name, 溯理, means tracing something back to its reason. It is the first-principles habit the company is built on.
How does a team this small ship this much?
Humans handle intent, judgment and taste. AI handles execution, scale and record-keeping. Every person is a domain owner directing a fleet of agents instead of a team of people. That is how two consumer apps and two custom agents shipped in the first four months.
Who is behind Causally?
Founder Hongkai He spent ten years in venture capital as managing partner at Taihill Venture, backing more than 100 AI and deep-tech companies. Causally runs a commercial base in Boston and an R&D base in Guangzhou. The angel round was co-led by Foothill Ventures and Taihill Venture.