About
An on-demand atlas of the AI-native economy.
startups.studio is a directory of every business worth building in the AI era — generated on demand from the same authoritative standards governments and businesses use to classify work, and composed into autonomous startups you can read, fork, or run.
What it is
A directory of generated startups, grounded in standards.
Every URL on this site is a coordinate — a path like /CompanyTypes/Accounting_Firm/Problems/Reconcile_Bank_Statements that pins a position in a 16-dimension ontology. Visit one and a Thing generates at that coordinate: a typed entity with a description, structured facets, and links into the rest of the graph. Relationships flow into the prompts as free-text Prompt Context, not foreign keys — so any coordinate, even one no one has visited before, generates on demand.
Underneath, a value-flow knowledge graph wires how every commodity is produced, consumed, and delivered. Edges are first-class verbs (produces, realizes, composes, uses) and nodes are every entity type in the spine — seeded from NAICS (industries), O*NET (occupations & tasks), APQC PCF (processes), UNSPSC(products & services), and GS1 (value-flow lifecycle). The cascade enriches the gaps; it never fabricates the spine.
Who we are
One brand, four public surfaces.
startups.studio is operated as a coherent set of public surfaces — each a capitalized domain wordmark — that share one model, one cascade, and one quality discipline. The atlas at /explore is the discovery layer; the canonical wordmarks below are the four end-user faces where the work ships.
Apex — autonomous startups generated, operated, and sold on Stripe Connect rails.
Services.StudioThe Services-as-Software surface — buy the outcome, not the seats.
SaaS.StudioThe Software surface — software built for the agents that now do the work.
Management.StudioManage your business and agents — the digital workforce surface.
The discipline
Capability-confident. Honest by default.
Every generated page is capability-confident: present-tense claims about what the AI-native economy can do, today. We never fabricate a customer, a metric, a press mention, a fake testimonial, or social proof we haven’t earned. The atlas is research; we describe the research, not a marketing pitch.
Every LLM generation we run is append-logged to durable storage at the moment of generation — gates and quality checks are metadata, never gatekeepers. A heuristic verdict never decides whether real output gets to exist. Read the methodology for the full pipeline.
Contact
Get involved.
startups.studio is built for three audiences. Each has its own entry door — pick the one that fits.
Build with Business-as-Code.
The deep dive on the method: nine commitments, real code, one cascade. For coders and domain experts shipping net-new AI-native ventures.
Read /build InvestorsBack the long tail.
One check, exposure to a portfolio of autonomous startups running on Stripe Connect rails. Power law and long tail, in one vehicle.
Apply for Access Researchers & AI agentsBrowse the atlas.
Every page exposes a Markdown alternate, JSON-LD entity grounding (NAICS & O*NET & APQC codes, sameAs to the authoritative sources), and structured facets you can cite.