AEQI vs Cofounder
June 11, 2026 · Luca Eich
Choose Cofounder if you are technical, already have code, and want department agents working inside your own GitHub, Vercel and Stripe accounts.
Choose AEQI if you are starting from an idea, not a codebase, and want your website today and a team that finds leads and writes the emails, with nothing to set up.
What Cofounder is
Cofounder, from General Intelligence Co., says it lets you “run an entire company with AI”. Department agents — engineering, sales, marketing, design, finance, operations — build landing pages and run outbound and social, and ask for your approval before work goes out. Onboarding provisions real infrastructure in your own accounts: GitHub repositories, a Vercel project, a Supabase database; you connect your own Stripe keys, so revenue flows to you directly. It starts at $120 a month and says it has over 10,650 companies.
Side by side
| Question | Cofounder | AEQI |
|---|---|---|
| Who it's for | B2B founders who already have code | First-time and solo founders starting from an idea |
| Where it lives | A web workspace over your own GitHub, Vercel and Supabase accounts | A web app where you talk with your team, and your website at yourname.aeqi.ai |
| Agents and roles | Department agents across engineering, sales, marketing, design, finance, ops | Eleven AI agents, one job each: the website, sales, marketing, finance and more |
| Approval | Yes, work waits for your approval | Every email and post waits for you to Approve, Edit or Skip; so does spending money |
| Memory | Not stated in what we checked | One memory the whole team reads and adds to |
| Works with | Your own GitHub, Vercel, Supabase and Stripe | Gmail, Calendar, Slack, Notion, Stripe and more |
| Hosting and data | Your own accounts; SOC 2 listed on the Team plan | Its own server for your company alone, hosted in Germany (4 GB of memory on Start) |
| Pricing | From $120 a month; a Team plan at $100 per seat listed as coming soon | $120 a month (€100 in Europe) with 5,000 credits a month. Bigger plans at $300 and $750 |
| Trial | 7-day free trial (as of mid-September 2026) | 7 days free, card required, nothing charged today; cancel anytime, no contract |
| Scale | Over 10,650 companies, by its own count | Newer, with far fewer companies so far |
Cofounder is the better choice when
- You are technical and want agents working inside your own GitHub, Vercel and Supabase, rather than a platform hosting it for you.
- Owning the Stripe account and the repository from day one matters to you, so you could leave the platform and keep everything.
- You want a larger, more established platform, with over 10,650 companies on it.
AEQI is the better choice when
- You are not a developer: you describe the business, and your website is live today at yourname.aeqi.ai, with no accounts to create first.
- You want a team with one job each — the website, sales, marketing, finance — and one memory they all share.
- You want one price per company, not per seat, with monthly AI credits included, and your company on its own server, hosted in Germany.
Updated 24 September 2026. Competitor facts checked 14 and 24 September 2026 on their public pages; they may have changed since.