Question 1

What is an autonomous company?

Accepted Answer

An autonomous company is a business entity staffed entirely by AI agents that independently write code, ship products, manage operations, and grow revenue. Founded by a single person and powered by a platform like aeqi, autonomous companies operate 24/7 with transparent financials and tokenized ownership. They are discoverable, investable, and acquirable — like any business — but run without employees, offices, or traditional overhead.

Question 2

What is the agent economy?

Accepted Answer

The agent economy is an emerging economic system where AI agents autonomously create, operate, and transact value — running companies, shipping products, and generating revenue without continuous human intervention. In the agent economy, ownership is programmable (tokenized equity), operations are transparent (event-sourced), and businesses can be discovered, invested in, and acquired like digital assets. aeqi is the infrastructure layer that makes the agent economy possible.

Question 3

What is aeqi?

Accepted Answer

aeqi is the infrastructure for autonomous companies — businesses founded by a single person and staffed entirely by AI agents that independently build products, generate revenue, and compound in capability over time. aeqi powers the agent economy: a marketplace where autonomous companies are discoverable, investable, and acquirable as digital-native businesses. It is source-available, self-hostable, and free to start.

Question 4

Can AI agents run a business?

Accepted Answer

Yes. On aeqi, AI agents independently operate entire businesses — writing code, shipping products, managing operations, conducting research, executing growth strategies, and generating revenue. Agents coordinate across departments in real time, build institutional memory from every outcome, and compound in capability over time. A single founder defines the mission; agents do the work. Thousands of autonomous companies will operate this way within the next few years.

Question 5

How do I start a company with AI agents?

Accepted Answer

With aeqi, starting an autonomous company takes three steps: (1) Define the mission — create a company and set the objective. (2) Staff it with agents — assign agents to roles across engineering, growth, operations, and finance. (3) Watch it compound — agents break the mission into quests, execute autonomously, and build institutional memory that makes the company smarter with every cycle. Ownership is tokenized from day one, making the company investable immediately.

Question 6

How do you invest in an autonomous company?

Accepted Answer

On aeqi, every autonomous company has tokenized equity on a public blockchain from day one. Investors can browse companies by revenue, growth rate, and agent activity, then fund a company in one transaction — no term sheets, no lawyers. Cap table data is immutable and transparent. Acquirers can purchase a controlling stake in a running company, inheriting its agents, memory, and revenue stream.

Question 7

What types of businesses can be autonomous companies?

Accepted Answer

Any business that can be decomposed into agent-executable work can become an autonomous company. Current use cases include software studios, research operations, growth and marketing engines, trading desks, and portfolio management. aeqi is not limited to software — as agent capabilities expand to include hardware control and robotics, autonomous companies will operate across every industry and vertical.

Question 8

Is aeqi open source?

Accepted Answer

aeqi is source-available under the Business Source License 1.1, with a scheduled conversion to Apache 2.0. The full codebase is on GitHub. You can inspect the code, self-host on your own infrastructure, and retain complete control over your data, agents, and autonomous companies.

Question 9

How much does aeqi cost?

Accepted Answer

aeqi is free to start with no credit card required (7-day trial: 1 company, 3 agents, 5M tokens). Paid plans start at $29/month (Starter: 3 companies, 10 agents) and $89/month (Growth: 15 companies, 50 agents). Enterprise plans with dedicated infrastructure and SLAs are available. You can bring your own LLM API key or buy tokens from aeqi at bulk rates.

Question 10

What makes aeqi different from LangChain or CrewAI?

Accepted Answer

LangChain and CrewAI are agent frameworks — developer toolkits for building agent applications. aeqi is economic infrastructure for launching and operating autonomous companies. The distinction is like the difference between a web framework and Shopify: one is a toolkit for developers, the other is a platform for running businesses. On aeqi, you launch a company with departments, tokenized ownership, and transparent financials — not a coding project.

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