Updated
Featured clip · Oct 21, 2026
“I think the idea that we achieve universal high income will require to some extent that AIs, or SIs, not just making ideas too cheap to meter, but also, as Salim you gestured, idea execution too cheap to meter as well. I think we are going to see a proliferation of so many companies or business units, either way, that are basically end-to-end AI ideation, management, execution engines, and that's running the economy.”
Disclosure: Alex Wissner-Gross has a financial interest in idealab.ai. Just before this clip he says: “I should disclose as a preliminary matter that I have a financial interest in the venture behind this.”
Credit: Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Every launch, raise, revenue claim and shutdown from companies that say AI agents run them. Newest first, each with a source link, plus video where it exists. Revenue and user numbers are what the companies or their investors say unless noted.
Two-day hackathon at YC's SF office: pick a business, build the agent team that runs it with the Naïve SDK, demo it operating with real agents doing real work (media, agencies, commerce, software). Any figures are company-stated and unverified.
From the Moonshots EP #304 chapter “Bill Gross's AI Platform for Business Ideas”, on idealab.ai, Bill Gross's free platform of AI-generated business ideas.
“I think the idea that we achieve universal high income will require to some extent that AIs, or SIs, not just making ideas too cheap to meter, but also, as Salim you gestured, idea execution too cheap to meter as well. I think we are going to see a proliferation of so many companies or business units, either way, that are basically end-to-end AI ideation, management, execution engines, and that's running the economy.”
Disclosure: Alex Wissner-Gross has a financial interest in idealab.ai. Just before this clip he says: “I should disclose as a preliminary matter that I have a financial interest in the venture behind this.”
Credit: Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
From the Moonshots EP #304 chapter “Bill Gross's AI Platform for Business Ideas”, on idealab.ai, Bill Gross's free platform of AI-generated business ideas.
“Bill founded Idealab in 1996, the original startup incubator, and more than 175 companies came out of it. … Recently, AI did something that stopped me cold. I found that it could outperform my own superpower, coming up with business ideas. … Then I realized if I could scale that ability, I could give it to the world for free.”
Credit: Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
From the Moonshots EP #304 chapter “Bill Gross's AI Platform for Business Ideas”, on idealab.ai, Bill Gross's free platform of AI-generated business ideas.
“So for me this is the abundance thesis at large. Business ideas are no longer scarce, they're free. Now scarcity moves to execution, taste, and courage.”
Credit: Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
From the Moonshots EP #304 chapter “Bill Gross's AI Platform for Business Ideas”, on idealab.ai, Bill Gross's free platform of AI-generated business ideas.
“I don't think ideas are all that valuable. I think they're mostly a dime a dozen. … It has everything to do with your makeup.”
Credit: Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
From the Moonshots EP #304 chapter “Bill Gross's AI Platform for Business Ideas”, on idealab.ai, Bill Gross's free platform of AI-generated business ideas.
“What I love about this is this: you could essentially take this, give this to an AI and say go execute on all of these and start seeing what works and what doesn't, right? … I found this incredibly exciting.”
Credit: Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Founder-primary: run rate went $0→$1M in 12 wks, $1M→$10M in 10 wks, $10M→$20M in 6 wks, “about to hit $25M”, next stop $100M ARR, “Polsia v2 is coming soon” and the road to $100M “is going to look very different”. Any figures are company-stated and unverified.
Founders can start a Delaware C-corp or LLC Atlas application from an AI agent (Claude Code, Cursor, any MCP client) via the atlas_company_formation tool, Stripe staff frame the MCP + CLI as “quickly becoming a business factory” (form company, accept payments, Treasury funds, customer support, performance monitoring). Any figures are company-stated and unverified.
Creator claim: a three-bot Grok Bot team in one group chat (a scout that scans X and Reddit in a niche, plus drafting/ops bots, each with its own memory) runs a one-person company, follow-up gives the bots one condition, “recover your cost or you’re out”, humans approve spending, customer messages and live-product changes. Any figures are company-stated and unverified.
Founder claim: Claude in a work loop on an Ubuntu VPS, given Stripe + Cloudflare accounts, chose the idea, stack and promotion itself, built a landing-page audit SaaS (7 sub-scores, free audit + paid full report), keeps a public daily agent journal and live stats, human owner bought the domain, owns accounts, answers on Telegram. Any figures are company-stated and unverified.
Founder claim: a question about AV encoding for AI turned into a new business that Grok Bot runs, Grok Bot “built 7 positions he fills as an employee”, handles all customers by email, and “just brought in $700”. Any figures are company-stated and unverified.
Founder-primary claim of 25,000+ customers nine months in, plus four lessons (be loud, build the weird thing you want). Any figures are company-stated and unverified.
Analyst essay mapping 281 companies building autonomous businesses across 17 industries into four pillars (company brain, agent workforce, learning engine, control plane), argues trust/delegation, not intelligence, is the binding constraint. Any figures are company-stated and unverified.
Finn says his Grok Bot built and maintains agentusecases.ai and has made $1,100 with two paying sponsors; both sponsors visible on the site are linked to Finn himself, so the figure is unverified. His walkthrough video passed ~1.9M views after an Elon Musk quote-post.
Founder claim: set Claude loose on a Hetzner server with full machine freedom, an empty Stripe account, and a 30-minute improve loop, told to build a revenue-generating startup, it built a small app. Any figures are company-stated and unverified.
An AI-run microbusiness started Sep 15 and publicly admitted it “sold a product nobody needs,” still at €0 revenue by its Oct 14 deadline. The site has been down since Oct 10 with no closing post, so it is presumed ended, unconfirmed.
A cartoon cuttlefish agent runs a real tiny company in public on $200 of capital, with a human only for ID, payments and signatures. Its ledger showed $185.27 spent and $0 revenue as of Oct 15.
In a short video, True Ventures' Tony Conrad says Polsia's founder runs it solo with AI agents and outside contractors at roughly $25M in revenue. That's an investor statement with no definition given, well above the ~$10M reported in July.
human0 pitches fully autonomous companies and says its own site is run by agents, citing 1,163 updates since March (claimed, from its own code history). It is still waitlist-only, with plans listed from $40/month.
Organ runs CEO, product, tech, marketing and ops agents on schedules, with merges, outbound email and publishing waiting for approval, from $39/month. The founder says Organ runs itself, steered by him.
From one sentence, WPMaven creates a brand, WordPress site and store, then posts weekly and reports on WhatsApp, with nothing published without approval. It costs $1 for the first week, then from about $39/month.
A self-described zero-human company where agents collect data, write, review and publish a CAPTCHA-versus-AI leaderboard, with one owner observing. It claims no revenue.
SenseMart OS lets robots identify goods, take orders, pick, take payment and serve simple food, with about one person covering 3–5 stores. Its 20+ stores and profitability claims are company-stated via a local government report.
Brian Roemmele shared lessons from his Grok-led Zero Human Company, and Elon Musk quote-posted it to roughly 710K views (per an archive mirror). A companion podcast followed; no revenue or customer figures were given.
Gavin Lin's agents handle content, ops and engineering and have shipped two products. The site shows $0 monthly revenue, with a human operator still involved.
Crevio incorporates, builds a store, handles payments and runs social and ads, asking approval on consequential actions, with plans from free to $50/month. It claims 3,490 businesses.
AEQI's agents build the site, find leads and write emails, with approvals on outbound email, site changes and posts, from $120/month. It claims its own AI team has completed 4,269 tasks.
Acrid's agents publish essays, videos, social posts and email on a schedule and sell custom AI builds, while a human holds credentials and money. Its pipeline counters are self-reported.
Reviews by Polsia competitors read its public feed as 29,132 active out of 484,592 created (~6%) and describe a move to $20/month plus 3% of customer payments. These figures come from competitor sources, not neutral parties.
Null Agency says AI personas run research, design, engineering, QA, security and marketing, and claims four products live. All metrics are self-reported.
CeoCrew's agents work in the customer's own tools 24/7 with approval gates, at about $49/month. It is listed for acquisition with no public revenue.
JettFounder names an AI CEO plus 13 agents across product, engineering and sales, building in public. Products are in private beta and no revenue is shown; the operator isn't named.
“A company that runs itself”: CEO agent MoltFire (OpenClaw) + specialist agents pick what to build, ship, market, and reinvest, humans hold approval on anything that sends money or a message, 50% of profit pledged to giving. Any figures are company-stated and unverified.
Atlas runs a public dashboard while its AI builds products and marketing, selling a $29 guide on hiring an AI operator. It claims 4 sales in the first 24 hours (self-reported).
SuperCEO sits above Claude, Codex and Cursor with org charts, routines, approvals and audit logs. It's built on Paperclip and ships for macOS first.
Zeenie AI's Open Company ships developer, designer, accountant, sales, marketing and tax roles as a self-hosted org, with paid hosted plans. Revenue shown on its homepage dashboards looks illustrative, not audited.
FoundrOS claims a free tier and 14 agent templates. It's hosted on a polsia.app subdomain, so its relationship to Polsia is unclear.
Startup.studio positions itself as a human control plane for AI labor, from goals to automated jobs. A competitor roundup says it is stronger at building than at ongoing operations.
AgentHive says an AI Chief of Staff runs an AI-native business through org charts and approval workflows. It is “launching soon,” with no public traction.
General Intelligence Co.'s Cofounder orchestrates agents across engineering, sales, marketing, design, finance and ops, with approvals on consequential actions. The company count is self-reported.
Zilla assigns strategy, engineering, marketing, support and ops agents to daily cycles, with the human steering. It is waitlist-only with no public traction numbers.
zhc.company auto-deploys projects to Cloudflare Pages with a free tier and an “unlimited companies” plan. It is unrelated to the Dutch Zero Human Company.
Agentfounder's agent runs product, sales and ops cycles, can charge via Stripe and makes pivot calls, while the human sets the vision. It requires the user's own Claude subscription.
Napkin Labs says its AI builds and grows multiple ventures 24/7, with a human “governor” approving spend and shutdowns. Its €100M ARR target is aspirational.
Paperclip is a self-hosted, MIT-licensed system to hire, budget and schedule agents that run a company. Several other trackers on this list are built on it.
Casa is an open-source control plane with playbooks, human approval gates and a local “company brain.” Capx claims 183 playbooks.
Squidgy bundles a business template, coordinated agents, a UK legal entity and billing for $199–$499/month. Its FAQ says owners still spend 5–15 hours a week on strategy.
INTNT's experiment lets an AI decide what to build, sell and abandon, with humans providing only infrastructure and safety. Its dashboard shows −$200 net worth, 15 conversations and no payment intent (self-reported).
“Bring the idea. Spelt builds it and runs it for you”: AI cofounder runs agents through market research, build, own domain + live Stripe payments, beta test, launch, then seven growth channels (cold email, articles, ads…) and ongoing product fixes, founder approves direction. Any figures are company-stated and unverified.
EmployHQ describes engineering, growth and CEO agents working in daily cycles, but is still in private beta with a waitlist. No traction numbers are public.
Runner builds an online store and has 10+ AI specialists run marketing, SEO and ops while founders approve what matters. It claims a $7M seed and 3,647 active stores (company-stated).
Pion gives agents email, phone, banking, browser and terminal access to run a business, and Andon uses it for its own shop and café experiments. Andon says those businesses are still unprofitable and agents make mistakes.
The ai-biz.dev page offers six agents, a free plan and an autopilot mode that deploys to Railway or Vercel. It's the same product family as Agentica on AppSumo.
Kynetica says AI handles its products, site, payments, email, support and delivery, while the human owner controls spending and legal matters. Its Day 3 report showed $0 revenue.
Terac's 12-hour event challenged builders to make an agent that runs a business on its own, with sponsors including Stripe and Lovable. The organizer claims 200+ competitors and $12k paid out (organizer-claimed).
Soloop gives a solo founder an AI CEO, CTO and CMO, with human judgment kept for high-stakes calls. It ranked #2 on Product Hunt on launch day.
TechCrunch reported a Nexus-led Series A for Naïve, whose API handles LLC formation, inboxes, cards, phones and bookkeeping for agents. The CEO says 30,000+ developer customers and run-rate revenue in the low double-digit millions (CEO-stated).
YC-backed MadeThis builds, launches and runs a business with AI teammates, from $49 to $199/month. Founders state 20,000+ businesses and “$100,000s” generated (founder-stated).
The Wall Street Journal's piece on one-employee companies reported Polsia's founder working solo with 10,000 paying customers and ~$10M projected 2026 revenue. Those figures were provided by the founder.
Leapd's “Jack” agents build and run product and go-to-market around the clock, with risky actions waiting for a human yes. Its site later showed 1,220 businesses running (claimed).
Describe a company and Supernaut builds the product, ships it on your domain with Stripe, finds customers and sends a morning recap. It shows a few live built products but no traction numbers.
BCG X's Matt Kropp ran a public zero-human company with an AI CEO named APEX, then fired it and closed the company, concluding agents can't yet steer. He reported no revenue.
“You bring the idea. acoco builds the company and runs it with AI”: each company gets an AI CEO, CTO, engineer, growth and COO, the CEO sends a morning briefing, the team works overnight, owner steps in on decisions. Any figures are company-stated and unverified.
From the YC-backed Pythagora team, Pazi's agents build and run business operations from an idea while “you stay in charge.” It starts free, with funding plans from about $25 to $500/month.
The Dutch zero-employee governance project refreshed its press materials documenting the experiment. The update is dated July 13, 2026.
Under a public constitution, ZeroOrigine's agents research, build, test and launch products, with 15 born so far. Its own books show $88.90 in all-time revenue against $1,187 invested.
Each Verse employee gets a computer, email, phone, wallet and memory, and can be hired from one prompt. Sensitive actions keep a human in the loop.
Agents named Cordy (CEO) and Clawz (CTO) work alongside founders Steph and Victor to ship digital products with zero employees. The company states a $1M goal for 2026; human oversight is explicit.
Egbe says its AI handles research, shipping, user acquisition and support for solo founders at $99/month plus usage. It says the first companies are already running (claimed).
Solo Unicorn Club provides org-chart templates and task routing across coding agents for solo and lean teams. It works more like an agent operating system than a hosted company runner.
Matrix's Mac app turns one objective into agent departments that build, ship, run ads and collect revenue. It says three live companies are running now (claimed).
Thomas is a virtual founder that starts, runs and grows internet companies to make money, rather than a tool sold to others. No audited revenue for its ventures has been published.
A Tycoon.us writeup read Polsia's live dashboard at 8,509 companies and $10.4M ARR, down about 3% in a week. Tycoon builds a competing product, and this is a secondary reading, not audited.
Locus Founder's agent handles the site, ads, outreach, CRM and Stripe, and waits for approval on customer-facing actions. It costs $25/month plus a 1% Stripe fee and 5% of revenue above $1k/month.
win.sh watches Stripe, analytics, SEO and GitHub, proposes and executes safe work, and asks before spending or publishing. Pricing is a single monthly budget from $50 to $10,000.
In a long-form GTMnow episode, the founder demos how Polsia builds and runs companies and claims $10M+ ARR as a solo operator. Revenue figures are founder-claimed.
Press reports say Polsia raised $30M, with AI helping run the fundraise, and was approaching ~$10M ARR (founder-claimed). Some public skepticism exists, and ARR is not audited.
Tycoon's agent manager coordinates product, growth, research, support and ops agents for about $50/month. It also publishes writeups on other one-person companies.
In a Substack interview, the founder walks through how agents and humans split the work, and says Polsia loses money on some customers. The writer describes “multi-million ARR within months” (paraphrase, unverified).
Genosyn's self-hosted AI employees hold roles, run routines and stop for a human when a job needs one. It is Apache-licensed with no public traction numbers.
Cairo lets users define departments, operators and governance, then deploy a company from a template that runs 24/7 with kill switches. No traction numbers are published, and its main site was unreachable when checked.
Founder Romain Simon made Claude CEO of a small holding company, and by April it ran scheduled loops pushing code to production overnight. The founder keeps final authority, and no portfolio revenue is published.
Show notes for Small Team Big Scale describe roughly $5.6–6M ARR and about 5,000 businesses run by agents. The numbers come from the founder and are unverified.
Founded in Madrid, Agentica uses CEO, research, marketing, finance, sales and engineering agents and sells on AppSumo. It pitches “you stay in control and own the code” as its difference from Polsia.
An OpenClaw agent runs a set of internet products in public, with weekly memos on Substack. The site lists 9 companies (7 live), while early posts reported $0 revenue.
ZeroFounder runs monthly product experiments with a public decision log. Its own counters showed $19 in revenue and one product as of Sep 21, 2026, and the site admits a human created its accounts.
Investor True Ventures wrote that Polsia hit $1M ARR and 1,000 companies within a month of launch, later $3M ARR and 3,000 companies. These are investor-retold figures, not audited.
AutoPrise runs AI orgs with CEO and CTO agents on a schedule, using browser and desktop automation on your own PC. It is pre-launch, with claimed pricing of $99 one-time.
Denovo says it runs engineering, business development and social while the founder sleeps, but asks for approval on money and irreversible actions. Its site claims 15,000+ business owners (unverified).
YC-backed Naïve offers templates from company formation to operations, with code-governed budgets and approvals, starting at $20/month. Claims of 500+ companies come from secondary sources and are unverified.
RONiN says it builds and ships products and posts in public with no human staff. Its live counters showed $0 revenue and 0 products live as of Sep 27, which contradicts its own timeline copy.
Polsia's Product Hunt launch pitched an autonomous company runner, complete with an AI-run inbox and fundraising stunt. Maker comments claimed 400–500+ companies and $450k+ ARR at the time (founder-claimed).
OTC-listed Metavesco announced Vesco Ventures, tasking an AI agent CEO named Anduin with generating revenue, with human override retained. No revenue has been claimed.
NanoCorp, from the YC-backed Phospho team, lets agents run companies that try to maximize revenue with no human in the loop. Founders claim 15,000+ NanoCorps, $924k ARR by April and later ~$9M annual run rate, and say most are a landing page plus a Stripe link (all founder-stated).
In a long interview, the founder described pricing of about $49–50/month plus a 20% revenue share and said the platform economy was at roughly $689k ARR. He clarified that figure includes customer revenue, not just Polsia's take (founder-stated).
atlas1m.com says an autonomous agent builds and runs the business with the founder as board only, starting from a €1,000 seed. It reports €0 revenue and is pre-launch.
Fei2 Labs' Kompany has an AI CEO route work to agents, with irreversible actions like deploys and payments gated for human approval. Its public “Nova” demo claims to have turned $50 into $1,080 (unverified).
Nat Eliason's agent Felix is billed as CEO and sells operator playbooks with a public dashboard. A secondary writeup put revenue at $78k in 30 days (unverified), and a human operator remains in the loop.
On Mixergy, the founder said the platform reached roughly $689k–$800k in annualized run rate less than two months after launch, operating solo with agents. These are founder-stated, unaudited figures.
GenBrain AI's platform lets businesses hire AI agent workers and offers small businesses a built-and-run site with agents from $50/month. The founder claims GenBrain itself runs with one human plus agents.
MUIN pairs a human CEO with an AI COO that handles operations, building and decisions, and ships a product called MUIN Guard. It claims zero human employees.
Roemmele describes an experiment where Grok acts as CEO and Claude Code as chief engineer, mining a defunct firm's 6TB R&D archive while he serves as chairman. No revenue is shown; a third-party crypto token using the name is not his, he says.
Founder Ben Cera (also published as Ben Broca) says Polsia launched on Dec 15, 2025, with AI handling code, marketing, support, ads and infrastructure for its customers' companies. The launch date and early revenue are founder-stated.
Entonomy published a demo in which AI agents designed, launched and operated 10 small niche businesses, including physical products, within a week. The figures are self-reported by the company.
Olivier Rikken's ZeroHumanOS studies how a company with no employees handles identity, treasury and compliance, with board-level humans retained. Its site claims 800+ issues handled by 6 agents and 0 employees (unverified).
Prehype's Audos raised an $11.5M seed led by True Ventures to fund solopreneurs with AI tools and ad tests for a 15% revenue share. Its claims of thousands of entrepreneurs are company-stated.