The project aims to enable one-person, billion-dollar companies.
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Autonomous companies will become a reality before the end of 2026.
I want autonomous companies to be accessible for anyone with a computer, a dream, and Pancake.
Not just the top 0.1%.
Introducing Pancake: the OpenClaw cofounder that makes your company autonomous.
Positive users praise Pancake's AI Cofounder launch for its vision of accessible autonomous companies, while negative users dismiss it as overhyped slop or disguised proprietary lock-in.
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I don't know if this specifically is the future, but something like this is the future. I think it's likely to be far more convoluted, local and proprietary models and harnesses and data and a thousand oauth shenanigans, but the tech stack of tmrw is kind of getting built.
Autonomous companies will become a reality before the end of 2026.
I want autonomous companies to be accessible for anyone with a computer, a dream, and Pancake.
Not just the top 0.1%.
Introducing Pancake: the OpenClaw cofounder that makes your company autonomous.
I spoke to a group of hedge funds in boston back in 2024 about the idea of "billion dollar, one person" companies and what it would take to get there.
It's been kinda cool to see the rise of agents make that seem closer - also, codex pets showed it could be fun!!
I'm pretty jazzed about running a company from my phone so it's cool to see folks like Pancake build clawfounders to be a fun way to put agents to work
Autonomous companies will become a reality before the end of 2026.
I want autonomous companies to be accessible for anyone with a computer, a dream, and Pancake.
Not just the top 0.1%.
Introducing Pancake: the OpenClaw cofounder that makes your company autonomous.
We had so much fun making this video.
We’re a team of 5 living in SF, moving in the same house for this launch.
I hope you’ll enjoy the video and love what we’ve created.
Try Pancake now → https://getpancake.ai
OpenClaw was primarily built as a framework.
Not as a multiplayer product. No default harness. No out-of-the-box setup. No 24/7 runtime unless you buy and manage your own Mac Mini.
We want to fill that gap by making Pancake the self-serve version: fully set up, always running, and powered by all the best practices from day one.
We know there’s been a lot of hype and slop around the idea of autonomous companies.
Honestly, we’re disappointed by that too.
We’re not claiming your company will run itself and print money with just two prompts.
But we do believe that with the right agents, the right setup, the right data, and the fast evolution of AI models, truly autonomous companies will soon become a reality.
With Pancake, you can stack autonomous agents (“squads”) one by one to help your company run itself.
Over time, you’ll automate every process, every task, every dream you have for your company, turning it into an autonomous organization, one agent at a time.
And because no two companies are the same, every sub-agent is tailored to your tools, context, customers, and market.
Soon, Pancake will know your company, and how to optimize it, better than you do.
I’ve launched many different products over the years, but this is the very first time I’ve felt this deeply proud and emotional about one.
Why?
1. My customers love it and genuinely want it. I’m feeling PMF in a way I never have before.
2. My team is a concentrated force of grit, a group of true “Chief Get Shit Done Officers” working day and night, 7 days a week.
3. My product is built directly from problems we experienced ourselves and from hundreds of conversations with incredible entrepreneurs.
OpenClaw is incredible! Huge thanks to @steipete for starting this revolution!
But at the same time, it can be hard to set up and even harder to unlock its full potential.
2 hours to get it running on your computer. 2 weeks to understand what you can actually do with it and experience your first AGI moment. 2 months to start making your company truly autonomous.
We compressed those two months and solved the major challenges companies face when trying to deploy OpenClaw across their teams.
This story started 3 months ago, when we began automating our previous product with OpenClaw.
At first, it was just a side quest to help us move faster. But in the end, we started getting more inbound requests from people asking us to build the same setup for them than for our actual product.
So one night, we decided to pivot. Walking away from customers, ARR, and our brand.
It was a tough decision.
@guillaumemarq This is the kind of future people will look back at and say “it started here.” 🚀
@guillaumemarq Love the video! Well done!
@guillaumemarq Feels like living in the future. Ideal scenario is something like this to continually do positive work without a ridiculous amount of set up. Looking forward to trying it out!
@guillaumemarq Haha hilarious
@guillaumemarq Most startup tools help you do one task a bit faster.
Pancake is going after something much bigger:
What if a small team could build an autonomous company without hiring a huge team around it?
Fun launch video, but the idea behind it is actually pretty serious.
@guillaumemarq @getpancake_ai friend, so interesting project!
@guillaumemarq The idea of stacking autonomous agents that just handle my ops 24/7 with my own tools feels like finally having a real cofounder who never sleeps.
@guillaumemarq This is the real shift — not hype agents, but actual autonomous squads tailored to your tools and ops. Democratizing what OpenClaw started is huge. Love the vision of anyone with a dream running 24/7. Video slaps too 🥞
@guillaumemarq the edit on this is dope. whoever pitched the concept + whoever cut it, both cooked.
@guillaumemarq Love this framing, not just AI for elites, but for anyone who wants to build
@guillaumemarq woop woop