We build AI‑native companies.

I started building businesses in 2018. Sometimes alone, sometimes with co-founders. By the time we’d been through about twenty ideas between us, a pattern was already obvious. The product was almost never the problem. What killed every one of them was the same three things.

Getting it out into the world. Finding customers once it existed. Showing up week after week so it didn’t go quiet. Some of those products were genuinely good. With co-founders or alone, we kept hitting the same three walls.

That stuck with me. The real problem wasn’t the product, and it wasn’t a shortage of people. It was that launching, selling, and showing up week after week is more work than a few humans can do while still building. We needed something different.

To test Sales Teams on a real business, I planned an agency: Horizon Labs. Web development for local South African businesses. The plan was simple. AI would find the leads. Humans would build the websites.

That plan lasted about three months. AI got dramatically better. The question stopped being “can AI help us find clients” and became can AI build the websites too. If it could, suddenly one person could deliver work that used to need a whole team.

That was the moment everything changed for me. Not just a better sales tool. A way to actually do the whole job, with way less.

Around the same time, I found an open-source tool called Paperclip. The idea behind it was exactly what I’d been chasing for years: you should be able to run a real business with a small group of people and a team of AI agents. The idea was right.

The tool itself had real problems. The AI agents cost money every time they checked in for new tasks, which added up fast. The way it tracked which agent was doing what fell apart when real work was happening. And the cost tracking only counted the AI’s usage bill, ignoring the subscriptions most people actually pay for, so a business could look free to run when it was actually costing hundreds.

So I rebuilt it. The result is Company Agents. You hire one lead AI agent. That agent brings on the specialist AI agents your business needs, sets up how they work together, and reports back to you. No wasted money on idle agents. Real cost tracking. And the whole system was built from the ground up to handle real customer work.

Today Company Agents runs every business we start at AI Native Ventures. Horizon Labs runs on it. The next one will too. And anyone else can use it for their own business.