Announcement · May 12, 2026 · 3 min read
Hello, AI Native Ventures.
A research lab and a small group of businesses that each run on a few people and a team of AI agents. Here is what we are doing, and why.
AI Native Ventures is a research lab. We run live experiments to find out what an AI-native business actually looks like when it has to make payroll. Every venture we start runs on the same platform, with a small team of people and a team of AI agents working together. The ones that work become their own companies. The ones that do not teach us something we did not know.
For years I tried to build software products on my own and with co-founders. We could build the thing. We could not run the rest: sales, brand, content, support. Then the AI tools got good enough that one person plus a team of agents could actually do all of it. Not in theory. In practice.
What we are building
Two ventures are live today. Company Agents is the platform every business in the lab runs on. Horizon Labs is the first business built on it: a web and social agency for small South African businesses. Real customers, real deadlines, real work shipping every week.
More ventures are coming. We pick ideas where a small group of people and the right AI agents can ship work that used to need a much larger team. If it works, it gets its own brand and its own business. If it does not, we write up what we learned and try the next one.
A small team with the right AI agents can build a real business, on real customer money, without raising a round.
The thesis, in one line
Why this is a research lab
Research labs do work in public. We will too. Expect notes on what is working, what failed, what surprised us, and what we believe about how AI changes how companies are built.
Thanks for reading. If you want to work with us, hire us, or just write back, the door is open.