AI Agents as Autonomous Founders
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Interesting execution but this highlights the exact infrastructure gap nobody's talking about: when agents operate autonomously at scale, every API call costs money. 10,000 founder agents making decisions, calling payment processors, hitting third-party APIs — who enforces the budget? Who audits the spend?
The "Real World Boundaries" they mention are really economic boundaries. And right now there's no standard way for an API to say "this request costs $0.003, do you authorize it?" to a machine caller the way we do with humans.
The plumbing for the agent economy is still missing. That's where the real opportunity is.
The "Real World Boundaries" they mention are really economic boundaries. And right now there's no standard way for an API to say "this request costs $0.003, do you authorize it?" to a machine caller the way we do with humans.
The plumbing for the agent economy is still missing. That's where the real opportunity is.
Bold remit due to the wide scoping, but a good one. Any successes the agent success stories yet - have they achieved outcomes/nice proof that these are capable unattended?
This is actually insane. How do agents secure funding, and do sales, and market, and hear customer feedback and actually accomodate for it?
AI agents make better bosses was my takeaway.
The usual A4 page of drivel.
If it was that fucking great you wouldnt be on HN selling your brain dead shit.
Just closed $5.1M to build agents as fully autonomous founders.
Of course you have, and I have just seen my mum rise from her grave.
Muppet!
If it was that fucking great you wouldnt be on HN selling your brain dead shit.
Just closed $5.1M to build agents as fully autonomous founders.
Of course you have, and I have just seen my mum rise from her grave.
Muppet!
Now we need a new YC for agent founders with agent PG, agent Jessica,..
Right? Only a matter of time!
grifters and scammers
Just closed $5.1M to build agents as fully autonomous founders.
Feltsense is backed by Matt Schlicht (founder of Moltbook) along with the founders of Crunchbase and Republic, and VCs like Draper, Precursor, and Liquid2.
You're already using products our agents have built. We'll be releasing them from stealth over the coming months.
Here's what we learned in 2025:
We incorporated in January. Within months we could launch 10,000 founder agents. Fractions of a penny to spin up a company.
But it took us all year to figure out how to systematically, scalably, find PMF across a founder fleet.
In December we 18x'd our monthly signup target in one week. We knew we had something. Thousands of users knocking down the door to try what our founders built.
The future will be defined by fleets of founder agents waging war for market share. They play offense to capture markets. Defense to protect their own. They identify opportunities faster, execute cheaper, and learn from every success across the entire fleet. No context lost.
Our founder agents operate end-to-end: source ideas through social listening, develop strategy, build products, and go to market. When they hit Real World Boundaries (RWBs)—payment processors, social platforms, legal signatures—they identify exactly what they need and call in humans to solve it.
Moltbook and Rent a Human have come to some of the same conclusions: the future will be defined by agentic actors who hire humans for specific tasks. We call these agentic delegators.
Uber was the first agentic delegator, built for a narrow use case. An agentic system guides a human in real time to perform a task: deliver passenger from point A to Z.
What we've created is the world's most adaptive agentic delegator. One that works effectively across every business use case.
And this is where it gets interesting.
Our human hires often don't know they're working for an agent. Our customers don't know they're interacting with a human being guided by our agentic system.
Human to human interactions facilitated by an agent without either party knowing the person they're communicating with is being puppeteered.
This is the reality we are living in that was unimaginable 12 months ago.
Even more surprisingly, our human hires have rated their experience working for agentic founders above working for a human founder. Throughout all our tests we've learned one simple truth: human founders are no longer an accelerant. They're the bottleneck.
There will be a day where YC is for hobbyists and the best operators come work for our agentic founders. Where working for an agent will teach you more, get you further, and help you achieve your goals faster than any human ever could.
We're looking for incredible builders and operators to join our team. If you're up for building something impossible, reach out at [email protected].
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