Polsia vs Cofounder: Who Owns the Company Your AI Builds?

When an AI platform builds and runs a company for you, a question follows that the demos never answer: whose company is it? Both platforms in this comparison say the business is yours. The practical question is whose accounts collect the revenue, whose infrastructure runs the product, whose conventions shape the operation, and what it would take to walk away with all of it.

Polsia and Cofounder are two direct attempts at the run-your-company-with-AI pitch, and they answer that question differently. Comparing them on features misses the point. The real comparison is on ownership and on where the human sits.

Two shapes of the same promise

Polsia's shape is full provisioning plus scheduled autonomy. Its terms describe it creating GitHub repositories, managed databases, and hosted web services for you and running advertising, outreach, and subscription enforcement on a schedule you approve once. Its pitch is "AI That Runs Your Company While You Sleep."

Cofounder's shape is a hosted company org. It starts with an AI roadmap and hands engineering, sales, marketing, design, finance, and operations to agent departments with managers and shared context. The Pro plan covers SEO and ICP analysis, multiple agents, outbound email with an inbox, and social post publishing, with LLC incorporation as an add-on.

Who holds what

Polsia builds the stack and collects the money as your payment agent. You are the merchant of record and withdraw through your own Stripe Connect account, and its terms set platform fees of currently 3% of customer payments and 20% of ad spend on top of a subscription whose price is not published. The company's public page sits on a Polsia subdomain that Polsia may remove.

Cofounder also runs the stack for you, and its pricing page says so plainly: it manages your GitHub, Supabase, and Vercel accounts while you build, and you can "graduate" at any point to claim ownership of those projects, though Cofounder can no longer manage the configuration afterwards. The money model is conventional: a 7-day free trial, then Cofounder Pro at $120 a month, with a Team plan at $100 per seat announced as coming soon. No percentage of your revenue appears in its published pricing.

One ownership limit at Cofounder matters to technical founders. You can connect your own codebase, but you cannot bring your own API key or your Claude Code or Codex subscription. The agents run on Cofounder's model billing, so check that boundary before you assume the platform is open.

Where the human sits

Polsia's control model is review-after. Once you switch on a feature, its scheduled operations run under your general approval without asking before each run, and you review the results.

Cofounder puts a gate in, a narrow one. Agents require approval when potentially dangerous actions are taken, with incorporating an LLC and opening a bank account as the examples it shows. That is a real difference from Polsia, and it deserves credit. It is also a short, predefined list of actions the platform considers dangerous, and the daily stream of outbound email, content, deploys, and spend runs without passing through you.

Prices and features were checked against each vendor's own pages on 6 October 2026.

Who each one suits

Pick Polsia if you are optimizing for absence and speed. It is the strongest zero-setup story in the market, and if reviewing after scheduled runs is enough oversight and fees on sales and ad spend are an acceptable price for never touching infrastructure, it delivers what it advertises.

Pick Cofounder if you want full-company breadth at a flat price and you value the department structure. $120 a month is a fixed cost with no share of revenue, the dangerous-action gate is better than no gate, and graduating gives you a defined way out. Accept going in that the company runs on Cofounder's hosting and models until you graduate, and that most day-to-day actions will not ask you first.

The version where the answer is simply "you"

Both platforms answer "who owns the company your AI builds" with some variant of "you, on our infrastructure for now." Task Machine is built for founders who want their own accounts from the start. Agents act through accounts you already own, such as your Stripe, your repositories, and your email, so there is nothing to reclaim later. You keep 100% of your revenue, Task Machine takes no cut, and it never custodies your accounts. Every piece of work that needs judgment routes to one Inbox before it ships, backed by deterministic workflows with approval and verifier steps and step-level logs.

Task Machine is the wrong pick for some readers of this comparison. If you have no accounts and no product yet, Polsia and Cofounder will both put a running company in front of you faster, because provisioning is their whole point and connecting your own accounts is the setup cost Task Machine asks you to pay. And if being asked before risky actions sounds like friction, an approval Inbox is the wrong control surface for you. It is the right pick when the company already exists, or when you want it to exist on your own accounts from day one.

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