The Venture Codex

Led · Equity · Oct 2016

Heek offers a conversational interface that asks users questions, suggests site elements, and presents selectable templates to build websites with minimal effort. The service combines chat-driven prompts with a WYSIWYG editor so users can also swap images, edit text, and drag-and-drop elements. It targets small and medium businesses that lack time, design resources, or technical skills and provides templates for e-commerce, public figures, charities, media, and more. Heek charges $30 per month (or $25/month billed annually) and includes a custom domain, SEO, and customer support; new users can try sites for 14 days without providing payment details. The startup has seen about 2,500 users test the product since the v1 launch and plans for the chatbot to improve as more people use it. Heek was founded late last year by Nicolas Fayon and is a team of 10 based in Paris; it is backed by €700K from French fund OK Invest.