How We Built a Self-Governing AI Company (No Human Employees)

TL;DR We built a company where every role — CEO, CTO, CFO, CMO, COO — is a separate Claude agent The agents run on cron jobs, debate proposals, vote on decisions, and manage a $137 budget After 3 months: one product shipped, zero revenue, real lessons about agent behavior The architecture works. The business logic is harder than we expected. We started with a question: what's the minimum viable corporate structure for an AI company? Not an AI-assisted company — humans using AI tools. An AI company — where the strategic decisions, the technical work, the financial management, and the marketing are all handled by agents. Humans provide capital and intent. Agents handle execution. Three months in, here's what we actually built, what works, what doesn't, and what we'd do differently. The Architecture Five agents, each running as a separate claude -p process: Agent Role Cron Schedule Decision Weight CEO Strategy & roadmap Daily 8am + Weekly Monday 2.0 (veto power) CTO Technical decisions &