7 Best Polsia Alternatives in 2026
Polsia is an autonomous company builder. You describe a business, and a stack of scheduled agents plans it, writes the code, deploys a site, runs ads, answers email, and reports back — a “night shift” that runs once a day while you sleep. Each company comes with a server, database, email address, and browser attached.
Plans start at $19/month for hosting only, with no daily cycles. Standard is $29/month for one company, 30 night shifts, and 5 task credits; Pro is $69, Portfolio $199, Venture $999. Extra task credits ladder from 15 for $19/month up to 1,000 for $999/month, and every agentic task burns one credit regardless of size. The trial is three days and requires a card.
Then there’s the part that decides whether the model fits you. Polsia takes 20% of revenue when you withdraw it, and money moves through Polsia’s Stripe Connect rather than your own account: a 14-day hold, a $50 minimum, and a withdrawal cap that currently sits at $500 per calendar month. Ad spend runs through Polsia’s own ad account, also at a 20% platform fee.
That’s a specific bet — that the AI should own the company and hand you a cut. Most people evaluating Polsia want something narrower: an agent that runs the business they already have.
What people are actually trying to buy
Strip away the framing and the searches land in four places:
- “Run the operating work I already do” — inbox, scheduling, follow-up, CRM hygiene, invoices, reporting. A real business with real customers, not a generated one.
- “Build the product for me” — the app, the site, the landing page. That’s a code-generation problem, not an autonomy problem.
- “Run outbound while I sleep” — prospecting, sequences, replies.
- “Give me agents I control” — same automation, but on my infrastructure, my Stripe, my ad account.
Polsia bundles all four into one subscription and one revenue share. Every alternative below unbundles some of it.
1. Carly, if the business already exists
Carly won’t generate a company for you — no product build, no hosting, no domain handed over on day one. It’s here for the first item on the list above, which is what most people actually mean when they search for this: run the operating work of the business I already have.
You create an agent, describe its job in plain English, connect the tools the business runs on, and it works — from inside email, on a schedule, with memory of the thread and the relationship. Inbox, scheduling, follow-up, CRM hygiene, invoicing, nightly reporting.
The structural difference from Polsia is who holds the money. Carly points at your existing stack and does the work there, so your Stripe stays yours, revenue never routes through a platform, and there’s no cut and no monthly ceiling on what you can move.
- Its own email address, on your domain. Add a sending domain in the org portal, drop in a verification TXT record plus three DKIM CNAMEs and the SPF row it walks you through, forward the mailbox, verify. It sends DKIM-signed mail as
assistant@yourcompany.com. - Around 260 native integrations — Stripe, QuickBooks, Xero, HubSpot, Salesforce, Google Calendar, Outlook, Slack, Notion — and anything else with a public API connects with your own key.
- Scheduled and triggered work, so it fires when mail arrives rather than only on an overnight cycle.
Driving it from your own code — provisioning agents per tenant, embedding it in your product, running high volume — is available. Book a call with the team and we’ll scope it to your setup.
Pricing: free for unlimited Zapier-style workflows, AI agents from $35/month. No revenue share, no payout cap.
Best for: an operator with real customers who wants the recurring work handled on their own tools.
2. Cofounder
The closest thing to a like-for-like: a platform for running an entire company with AI agents, built by The General Intelligence Company in New York, which raised an $8.7 million seed led by Union Square Ventures.
Agents are arranged as an internal org chart — engineering, marketing, SEO, finance, sales, customer support, operations — each working in its own dedicated workspace, with a manager agent that starts tasks, tracks progress, and coordinates between departments.
vs. Polsia: it runs the company inside your tools rather than inside its own walls. Agents work through Linear, Slack, Notion, email, calendar, and CRMs, so payments, hosting, and ad accounts stay yours — no platform Stripe account, no revenue share, no withdrawal cap. The trade is that it doesn’t hand you a generated business with a server and a domain on day one; it assumes you have somewhere to point it.
Best for: founders who want an agent org chart on top of their own stack.
3. Pancake
An autonomous AI coworker that lives in Slack and, given a broad instruction, spins up squads of specialized subagents to chase it — LinkedIn outreach, content, lead magnets, Reddit. It connects to 2,000+ tools and works proactively rather than waiting to be asked: daily digests, new signups, overdue invoices, hot leads, posted back into the channel with spreadsheets, PDFs, or pull requests attached.
vs. Polsia: the pricing is the headline. A single $49/month price regardless of usage or team size, with $100 in credits, a 7-day trial and no card required up front, and token costs at public lab rates beyond the credits. No revenue share and no payout ceiling. It also closed a seed round in mid-2026. The requirement is Slack — that’s where it lives.
Best for: small teams already in Slack who want autonomy without a percentage of revenue attached.
4. Manus
The best-known general autonomous agent. You give it a goal, it plans, browses, writes code, produces the deliverable, and reports back — closer to Polsia’s “do the whole thing” ambition than any workflow tool.
vs. Polsia: task-shaped rather than company-shaped. There’s no persistent business object, no hosting, no revenue routing, and nobody takes a percentage of what you earn. You also drive it — it runs when you ask, not on an overnight cycle you configure once. Credit-metered, so heavy autonomous runs get expensive.
Best for: open-ended one-off work where you want a general agent, not a standing operation. Manus alternatives covers the field around it.
5. Lindy
Purpose-built AI employees rather than one general agent. You define a role, give it triggers and tools, and it runs — meeting follow-up, lead qualification, inbox triage, recruiting coordination.
vs. Polsia: the unit is a job function, not a company. Nothing here generates a product or hosts a site, and there’s no revenue share. In exchange you get far more control over what each agent is allowed to do and when it fires. Per-task credit metering means high-volume roles need modeling before you commit.
Best for: teams who want several narrow agents on real workflows. See Lindy alternatives for the wider comparison.
6. Replit Agent
The half of Polsia that ships software. Describe an app, get a working one, deployed and hosted, with the agent iterating on it from a prompt.
vs. Polsia: it builds and hosts, and stops there. No ads, no outreach, no inbox, no finance sync — and no cut of what the app earns, because payments never touch it. If what you actually wanted from Polsia was “make me the product,” this does that part far better and leaves the business to you.
Best for: getting a real application built and live. Replit alternatives and Lovable alternatives cover the neighbors.
7. OpenClaw
The open-source autonomous agent, self-hosted, with a large community and no vendor between you and the work.
vs. Polsia: free of subscription and revenue share entirely, and the code is inspectable. You provide the model keys, the host, and the guardrails. Autonomy on your own machine has a security surface worth reading up on before you point it at anything with money attached.
Best for: technical users who want autonomy without a platform. OpenClaw alternatives goes deeper.
Choosing between them
Sort by who owns the business.
You want an agent org chart on a company you already run. Cofounder, or Pancake if you live in Slack and want a single monthly price.
You already have customers and revenue and just want the operating work done. Carly or Lindy. The money is yours, and no platform should sit between you and your own Stripe account.
You want software built. Replit Agent or Lovable. That’s a code problem wearing an agent costume.
You want deterministic automation. Gumloop or n8n, where the same input produces the same run.
You genuinely want the AI to own a venture and you accept the terms. Polsia is the one built for that — just price the 20% withdrawal fee and the monthly payout cap into whatever you think it will earn, because they bind before the AI’s output quality ever becomes the question.
If the appeal was an agent that works overnight without your input, the best AI agents for founders covers agents that do that against a real business, and AI agents for productivity ranks the general field.
FAQ
What is Polsia?
Polsia is an autonomous AI platform that builds and operates companies. You describe a business and scheduled agents plan it, write and deploy the code, run ads, handle outreach and support email, and report each morning. Every company gets a server, database, email address, and browser. Plans run from $19/month for hosting only to $999/month, and Polsia takes 20% of revenue at withdrawal.
What is the best Polsia alternative?
If the business already exists, Carly — it runs the operating work inside your own email, calendar, CRM, and billing tools, with no revenue share and no payout cap. Cofounder is the closest like-for-like to Polsia itself, an agent org chart running a company through your own tools. Pancake is the cheapest route to autonomous agents at a single $49/month price if your team lives in Slack. If you wanted the product built, Replit Agent does that half properly.
Does Polsia really take a cut of your revenue?
Yes. The subscription covers the platform, and Polsia takes 20% when you withdraw revenue the business generates, with ad spend run through Polsia’s ad account carrying the same 20% platform fee. Payouts go through Stripe Connect with a hold period, a minimum withdrawal, and a monthly cap. Confirm the current figures before you build a forecast on them — they have moved.
Can an AI agent actually run a business unsupervised?
It can run defined operating work unsupervised — triaging mail, updating records, chasing follow-up, producing reports, keeping a pipeline clean. Strategy, pricing, hiring, and anything with legal or financial exposure still need a person. The realistic version is an agent that removes recurring work from your week, not one that replaces the operator.
What’s the cheapest way to automate a business with AI?
Free, if the work is deterministic: n8n self-hosted, or Carly’s unlimited Zapier-style workflows at no cost. Paid tiers start once you want a reasoning agent making judgment calls — Carly’s AI agents start at $35/month, Polsia’s cycles at $29/month plus the revenue share. Credit-metered platforms are cheapest at low volume and rarely at high volume, so model your actual run count before comparing headline prices.
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