The AI-native economy

Build, launch, & grow
autonomous startups.

An autonomous startup is the whole company — goals, products, unit economics, and the agents that staff it — written as Business-as-Code, then sold as Services-as-Software: your customers buy the outcome, not the seats. Found one. Run a hundred — each wired to Stripe and selling from the first commit.

coordinate → code → company

Why now

Every era builds its companies the way it builds its software.

In the cloud era, Infrastructure-as-Code turned servers into software — and that’s what unlocked Software-as-a-Service. The same shift is happening one layer up: Business-as-Code turns the company itself into software — and that unlocks Services-as-Software, where you don’t buy a tool to do the work, you buy the work done.

The $50-trillion services economy is being rewritten. The only question is which side of it you build on.

Cloud eraInfrastructure-as-CodeSoftware-as-a-Service
AI eraBusiness-as-CodeServices-as-Software

IaC : SaaS  ::  BaC : SaS

The method

Business-as-Code.

Everything that makes a company — who it serves, what it sells, how it sells — written as code. Versioned, forkable, and executable, so a startup is something you ship, not something you staff up.

It’s not a metaphor. The whole company — goals, products, unit economics, and the named agents that staff it — is real, type-safe code. The work itself is code too: a cascade that runs autonomously, then escalates to a named human the moment the stakes demand it.

acme/business.ts
import { Business, agent } from 'business-as-code'

export const acme = Business({
  name: 'Acme Books',
  mission: 'Close the books for every small firm — automatically.',
  icp: 'US accounting firms, 2–200 staff',
  goals: ['500 firms onboarded', '$1M ARR', '99.9% on-time filings'],

  // sold as an outcome, not seats — software margins on a services budget
  products: [
    { name: 'Monthly Close', model: 'subscription', price: 499, cogs: 40 }, // ~92% margin
  ],

  // staffed by named digital employees — one per function
  team: [agent('Sally', 'Sales'), agent('Finn', 'Finance'), agent('Tom', 'Tech')],

  metrics: ['mrr', 'churn', 'grossMargin', 'closeTime'],
})

Autonomous where it’s safe. Human where it matters. Services-as-Software isn’t about replacing people — it’s about freeing them from execution to do the work only people can do.

The category

Buy the outcome, not the seats.

SaaS sold you a tool and a login, then billed per seat while youdid the work. Services-as-Software sells the work finished — the return filed, the contract reviewed, the books closed. It’s the first model with software’s margins and labor’s budgets: 85–95% gross, against a line item 10× the size of software. That’s how these companies reach real revenue in months, not years.

Traditional services

10–30% margin · 1–3× revenue

Services-as-Software

85–95% margin · software multiples

Margins are only half the story. AI can already do this work — most of the services economy just hasn’t bought it that way yet. That gap, between what’s now possibleand what’s been adopted, is the widest it will ever be.

AI capabilities have outrun adoptionTwo exponential curves on a shared timeline. AI Capabilities is already vertical at the left edge; AI Adoption traces a long flat tail before turning steep at the right. The horizontal gap between them is the Services-as-Software opportunity.
AI Capabilities
AI Adoption
The Services-as-Software opportunity

The loop

The market is the reward function.

The agents don’t just run the company — they optimize it. Every startup is a live experiment: they test ad creative, landing-page copy, pricing, and offers, and the market grades them in real numbers — click-through, sign-ups, activation, and ultimately revenue, growth, and profit. Because the business runs on real Stripe rails, that reward is ground truth, not a proxy. Winners compound, losers get cut — and the company improves while you sleep.

01Ad CTR
02Signup %
03Activation
04Revenue
05Growth
06Profit

proxies  →  reward · the agents optimize the whole funnel

What you build

Three first-class categories.

Every autonomous startup is one of three: an Agent, a Service-as-Software, or a Software. Each runs as Business-as-Code. Each is crossable with every business model and every niche in the economy.

Crossed with every business model — B2B, B2C, B2A, marketplace, API, data, directory — and every niche in the economy. Millions of possible Startups, generated on demand. A curated Canonical Indexkeeps only what’s genuinely distinct — so the atlas stays a market map, not spam.

The engine

From a coordinate to a company.

Pick any niche and the Combinator runs it through a cascade of typed stages — the problem, the ICP, the offer, the company itself — and out the other side is a live, selling startup. Generated on demand; nothing is built until you ask for it.

01
Coordinate
emit
02
Problem
emit
03
ICP
split
04
Solution
split
05
Differentiator
split
06
Founding Hypothesis
bind
07
Position
bind
08
Offer
bind
09
Business-as-Code
bind
10
Financial Rails
bind
11
Agents
emit
12
Surfaces
emit
Live startup
runtime unit · selling
emitsplitbind— scroll the strip →

What ships

This is what ships.

Not a gallery of concepts — each of these is a startup category the system generates on demand, on its own domain via Builder.Domains, wired to commerce rails from the first commit.

VVehicle Data API

Vehicle-data APIs — agent-operated, B2B.

launching soon
HHeadless SaaS

Headless SaaS built to be called by agents and humans alike.

launching soon
DDeep Research

Deep research, delivered as a service.

launching soon
EEstate Reports

Estate vehicle FMV reports — same day.

launching soon
PPatent Drafting

Patent search and drafting, on demand.

launching soon
AAgent Services

Services, run end-to-end by agents.

launching soon
Explore the atlasevery business model · every niche · generated on demand

Who it's for

Build it, or fund it.

Builders & founders

Build a startup.

Coders and domain experts. Define it as Business-as-Code, ship it as Services-as-Software, and run it — start your own, join a studio, or operate a whole portfolio.

Investors

Fund a portfolio.

Back AI-native operators running studios, not single bets — power law AND long tail, captured in one vehicle on Stripe Connect rails.

Coming with launch

Two more doors in.

startups.new

The shortcut. Type once, ship a startup.

Like repo.new or docs.new — one URL, full-screen input, autofocus. Describe what the company does; the cascade compiles a Business-as-Code spec and stands it up. Vibe coding for businesses, not apps.

ships with the full launch

startup.games

Still swiping? Or building your empire?

Tinder at L1. Predict at L3. Robinhood-UX for your own dashboard at L4. SimCity at L5. The opt-in leaderboard for founders running real Startups on real Stripe rails — your MRR, your growth, your cohort. Sponsor prizes at the top of each.

ships with the full launch

Startups that build themselves.