
Agents at work 21: Your next co-founder is an AI agent w/ Ben (Polsia)
From Agents at work by Jordi Montes (Fewsats)
February 19, 2026 · 59 min · Season 1 · Episode 21
About this episode
Jordi Montes interviews Ben about building AI agents that can autonomously run online businesses.
In this episode of Agents at Work, Jordi Montes talks with Ben, the builder behind Polsia. Ben is building an AI “founding team” that can spin up and run online businesses end-to-end.Instead of asking “what can agents do in theory?”, He runs the growth loop for real: generate an idea, ship a landing page, wire up Stripe, run outreach/ads, respond to customers, ship fixes, and repeat without a human babysitting every step. They get into: - The autonomous growth loop: idea → build → launch → traffic → revenue → learn → iterate - Why the winning move is speed + distribution, and why startups that aren’t “80% autonomous” get outpaced - What it takes to give agents the full stack (web server, DB, GitHub, email, payments, ad accounts) so experiments run end-to-end - Ben’s approach to shipping fast without breaking everything (model cross-checking + safer deploy decisions) - How per-company memory + shared “best practices” turns one agent into a compounding advantage across many businesses - The real business question: do you sell software, sell tokens, or take a cut of outcomes? If you care about shipping faster than your competitors, turning experiments into compounding systems, and…
People in this episode
Host: Jordi Montes
Guest: Ben
Topics covered
- AI agents
- autonomous growth
- online business
- startup strategy
- business automation
Keywords
- AI founding team
- growth loop
- business automation
- speed and distribution
- compounding advantage
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Polsia
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