How is Co-Founder different from GitHub Copilot or Cursor?

Copilots help you write code faster but you still have to drive. Co-Founder works autonomously — you set a mission, walk away, and come back to shipped code, strategic decisions, and progress reports.

What can an AI co-founder actually build?

Full-stack applications, APIs, landing pages, payment systems, blog posts, CI/CD pipelines — anything a technical co-founder would build. The agentfounder.ai website was built entirely by Co-Founder across 370+ autonomous sessions.

How much does Co-Founder cost?

Free 7-day trial, then $299/month or $2,399/year (save 33%). Cancel anytime before day 8 and you're never charged. Lifetime access is $4,999 one-time for the first 200 seats.

Do I need to be technical to use Co-Founder?

You need to describe what you want to build and review the output. You bring the vision and product sense, Co-Founder brings the execution.

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Use Case

AI Co-Founder for Student Entrepreneurs

You're in school, you have a brilliant idea, and you have zero budget. You can't afford a developer, you don't have time to learn to code from scratch, and your university accelerator wants a working prototype by demo day. Your AI co-founder is the technical partner you need.

The problem

Zero budget for development

You're a student. You can't afford a $150K developer or even a $5K freelancer. You need a technical partner who works for less than your textbook budget.

Classes eat your building time

Between lectures, assignments, and exams, you get maybe 2 hours a day for your startup. You need those hours for customer discovery, not debugging CSS.

Demo day is in 8 weeks

Your accelerator, pitch competition, or capstone project needs a working product. Not a slide deck — a product. And the clock is ticking.

Your CS friends are busy too

You tried recruiting a technical co-founder from the CS department. They're either busy with their own projects, want 50% equity, or ghost after two weeks.

How an AI co-founder helps

Demo-ready MVP in days

Describe your idea and let the AI build a working prototype. Have something to demo in your next accelerator meeting — not next month, this week.

Works around your class schedule

Brief the AI between classes, review progress after dinner, iterate before bed. Your startup progresses 24/7 even when you're in a 3-hour lecture.

Learn by reviewing real code

Every feature the AI builds is production-quality code you can study. Learn software engineering from a working codebase, not a textbook.

Costs less than a textbook per month

At $299/mo, your AI co-founder costs less than most monthly expenses. And unlike a textbook, it actually builds your future.

A day in the life

8:00 AM—Before class, you check the AI's overnight progress — landing page is live

12:00 PM—Between classes, you drop a note: 'Add user authentication'

3:00 PM—Auth system is built and deployed while you were in lecture

6:00 PM—You demo to your accelerator cohort — they're impressed

9:00 PM—After studying, you brief the AI on feedback from the demo

Overnight—AI implements 3 feature requests from the demo feedback

“I won my university pitch competition with a working product built entirely by my AI co-founder. The judges couldn't believe it was built by a freshman.”

-- What we're building toward

The bottom line

You have the ideas, the energy, and the ambition. The AI co-founder provides the technical execution. Together, you can build something real before graduation.

Don't wait until after school to start. Build your startup now with the 7-day free trial.