AEQI vs Naïve
June 11, 2026 · Luca Eich
Choose Naïve if you are a developer who wants to assemble an agent-run business yourself, from legal formation to payments to compute, through APIs and a CLI.
Choose AEQI if you would rather describe the business than wire it together: a website today, and a team that finds leads and writes the emails.
What Naïve is
Naïve describes itself on usenaive.ai as “infrastructure that lets agents autonomously operate businesses”: a catalog of 53 building blocks spanning formation, identity checks, cards and compute, reached through a CLI, an API and a dashboard called Studio. It is made by a Palo Alto company founded by Sean Dorje and Dennis Zax. In mid-September 2026 the Pro plan was $20 a month per organization with $20 of usage included, then pay-as-you-go; forming a US LLC through it cost $349.
Side by side
| Question | Naïve | AEQI |
|---|---|---|
| Who it's for | Developers assembling an agent-run business themselves | First-time and solo founders who want it assembled already |
| Where it lives | A CLI, a REST API, an SDK and a dashboard called Studio | A web app where you talk with your team, and your website at yourname.aeqi.ai |
| Agents and roles | Agents you compose yourself from 53 building blocks | Eleven AI agents, one job each: the website, sales, marketing, finance and more |
| Approval | Not stated in what we checked | Every email and post waits for you to Approve, Edit or Skip; so does spending money |
| Memory | Sessions and structured outputs per agent | One memory the whole team reads and adds to |
| Works with | Its CLI, API, SDK and Studio; no inbox or messaging channels | Gmail, Calendar, Slack, Notion, Stripe and more |
| Hosting and data | Not stated in what we checked | Its own server for your company alone, hosted in Germany (4 GB of memory on Start) |
| Pricing | $20 a month per organization plus metered usage; a US LLC is $349 | $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 |
Naïve is the better choice when
- You think in APIs and want to pick exactly the building blocks your business needs, and wire them together yourself.
- You need a real US LLC formed, with a registered agent and an EIN; AEQI does not form a legal company.
- You want the lowest entry price and pay-as-you-go usage.
AEQI is the better choice when
- You want to start from a sentence, not a CLI session: your website is live today at yourname.aeqi.ai.
- You want a team with one job each — the website, sales, marketing, finance — that finds leads and writes the emails, and one memory they share.
- You want every email and post to wait for your OK before it goes out.
Updated 24 September 2026. Competitor facts checked 14 September 2026 on their public pages; they may have changed since.