AI cofounder
An AI cofounder that does the work.
Most "AI cofounders" are chatbots with a business vocabulary. They give advice. Advice is cheap. A cofounder’s job is the work: validating the idea, shipping the site, running the ads, chasing the leads, answering the inbox. Clayleo is an autonomous company platform — which means your AI cofounder actually does all of that, and takes zero equity.
The four jobs of a cofounder
The skeptic
A real cofounder pushes back. The validation gate researches the market, finds your competitors, and kills weak ideas before they cost you anything.
The builder
Ships your site to its own subdomain on day one, then redesigns on request — "make the hero shorter" is a valid instruction.
The marketer
Real ad campaigns with hard budget caps, generated creative, and an autonomy dial from draft-only to self-serve.
The seller
Warm leads, not scraped lists — people already asking for what you sell, ranked by intent, plus the email agent that drafts, sends, and replies.
One thing it never does
Spend your money without asking. Every paid task — ads, domains, product orders — queues for your one-click sign-off, itemized to the cent. Agents do unlimited work; you keep the signature. And every dollar the company earns is yours.
Questions people ask
Can AI really be a cofounder?
It can do a cofounder’s work: validate the idea, build the website, run ads, find leads, answer email, and source products. What it should not do is spend your money unsupervised — on Clayleo, every paid action queues for your one-click approval.
How is an AI cofounder different from asking ChatGPT for advice?
A chatbot tells you what to do; an AI cofounder does it. The output of Clayleo is a live website on its own domain, real ad campaigns, ranked leads, and a working mailbox — not a conversation.
Does an AI cofounder take equity?
No. Clayleo charges for the work agents do, itemized to the cent. The company, the revenue, and every dollar it earns are yours.
What if my idea is bad?
Then the validation gate says so before anything gets built. Clayleo scores every idea 0–100 against real market signals with a verdict — proceed, iterate, or kill. Weak ideas die free of charge.
Pitch your cofounder one sentence.
It answers with market research.