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.
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.
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.
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 you did the work. Services-as-Software sells the work finished — the return filed, the contract reviewed, the books closed. Software’s margins on labor’s budgets.
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 possible and what’s been adopted, is the widest it will ever be.
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.
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.
Agents
Digital employees you hire.
The job a person used to do, done by an AI you put on the org chart.
ServicesServices-as-Software
Buy the outcome, not the hours.
Work people used to bill for, delivered as software.
SaaSSoftware
Built for agents, not humans.
APIs and apps for the machines that now do the work.
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 Index keeps 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. Out the other side: a live, selling startup. Nothing is built until you ask.
What ships
This is what ships.
Not a gallery of concepts — these are the twenty anchor brands of the studio portfolio: the API substrates that power each vertical and the flagship brands built on them, each on its own domain, wired to commerce rails from the first commit.
The gigs.* format repeats across professions.
gigs.doctorThe API-native economy runs on our namespace.
apis.doAgents are customers here.
agents.doProtocol-level real estate of the agent era.
mcp.do
The external verifier for agent-first APIs — apis.ax · page.ax · apps.ax, the AX spine, labeled behind it.
api.qaInsurance, unbundled — the ACORD-native API substrate (gigs.claims supply behind it).
api.insureEvery recurring artifact of work is a company waiting — stands for the 102-domain .co buy.
punchlists.co
sedgerowWe mint brands from nothing.
sedgerow.comWho it's for
Build it, or fund it.
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.
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.
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
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ships with the full launch