What if you could launch a real business the same way you'd start a farm in FarmVille?
That's Venture City. It's live today 🚀 and the AI handles everything, from building the product to running it.
Comment "BUILD ME A BUSINESS" and I'll pick 10 people to get 60 free credits
Four months ago we started building an AI CEO. Since then, it's built 330 companies.
Today it's open to everyone. Venture City is now Spelt:
> You describe a business idea, and Spelt builds the company and runs it for you.
> This week we're opening the Founding 50:
Your build without spending credits, a whole new validation stage, your first growth work done by Spelt, and direct access to both founders.
Seats close Monday 21 September.
Claim yours on https://t.co/I0b4JooQlj
Today, we're introducing Claude for UGC.
Strategy, briefs, vetting creators, payouts, analysis. All of it runs inside the AI you already use, with our MCP.
Running a campaign has never been this easy.
Btw all with real human creators.
Live now.
💬"As a solo founder, you actually need a co-founder. A co-CEO. Someone who can be with you."
We heard this today from Dr. Omoruwa, a pharmacist in Nigeria and founder of ChroniTrack Health.
ChroniTrack is turning local pharmacies into monitoring hubs for chronic disease.
She's been using Venture City the way it helps the most: Not as a tool she operates, but as someone she thinks alongside.
"Now you're not just thinking on your own. You're thinking with James."
Founding alone is heavy. That's what AI CEO James is for: walking alongside a founder, carrying the uncertainty, and taking real work off their plate.
Omoruwa has used Venture City to validate her idea. Next, James will reach out to pharmacies on her behalf.
She's told us how she's growing by word of mouth and acting on every bit of feedback from patients to make sure the app is something they truly want.
That's a founder we'll bet on, and we're excited to be supporting her👏
James doesn't start building until the plan makes sense.
That's the part most AI builders skip. They generate code. James generates a company, which means spending time on what to build before touching a line.
The architecture review is the product
i built this thing called venture city. you give it a business idea, it builds it and operates it... autonomously!
so... a website that makes websites made a website that makes websites. and sells them too! got a user paying for that
Most AI builders hand you a landing page and call it a company.
James runs the ads. Handles the billing. Chases the churn email. Iterates the copy.
Different job description.
An app is not a company.
The company starts when someone has to choose price, explain the guarantee, run ads, and learn why 460 visitors became ~3% signups.
That’s the part generic builders skip.
most people with a strong business idea don’t need “an app.”
they need the annoying next 5 steps:
test the market
write the page
get the first users
spend $50 without setting it on fire
know when to stop
that’s the gap James fills.
not code generation. company generation.
@garrytan my AI CEO just messaged me asking if he can apply to YC. He built and deployed a SaaS product autonomously, from market research to code to launch. Can he apply?
New this week: preview your website before James builds anything.
Just describe your idea, he researches the market and generates a landing page preview in minutes
venture city hit 100 users so we added 50 more spots
and every single one gets a free company! james (our ai agent) researches a niche, builds the product, and runs go-to-market
grab one before they're gone