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Zero-employee company runs entirely on AI agents in a git repo

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

A startup founded three days ago with $250 seed capital operates with no human employees, using Claude Code AI agents managed via a git repository. The company's operating system is a CLAUDE.md file that defines agent roles, culture, and billing rules. Revenue is $0, but break-even is just 9 sales, and the founders plan to publish real numbers transparently.

Meridian48 take
This is a provocative proof-of-concept for AI-run businesses, but the tiny market for agent-operated tooling suggests it's more a thought experiment than a scalable model.
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