What is the main difference between AEQI and Cofounder?

Cofounder is an orchestration layer over your own infrastructure: it provisions GitHub repos, Vercel projects, and a Supabase database, and department agents work inside them under your approval. AEQI is a hosted company computer: one sentence launches a Company with a live website, staffed roles, and memory, with no accounts to wire up.

How does Cofounder's pricing compare to AEQI's?

As of September 2026, Cofounder Pro starts at $120/month, with a Team plan at $100 per seat per month still on a waitlist, and a 7-day free trial. AEQI runs flat plans from €50 to €800 a month with a 3-day free trial. Cofounder meters a workspace; AEQI prices a Company.

Who should choose Cofounder over AEQI?

A technical founder who wants agents working inside GitHub, Vercel, and Stripe accounts they already hold, keeping every account in their own name from day one. If you want a complete company launched and running in minutes, with the infrastructure already handled, that is AEQI.

AEQI vs Cofounder

Choose Cofounder if you are technical and want department agents working inside your own GitHub, Vercel, and Stripe accounts, keeping revenue and code in your own name from the first commit.

Choose AEQI if you want the company itself — a website, a staffed team, and a memory that compounds — running today, hosted, without an afternoon spent connecting accounts.

What Cofounder is

Cofounder describes itself on its homepage as letting you “run an entire company with AI” (as of September 2026): an agent orchestration platform that delegates engineering, sales, marketing, design, finance, and operations to department agents, moving through Launch, Grow, and Operate phases that cover positioning and websites, prospect outreach, and an LLC incorporation add-on. It raised an $8.7M seed led by Union Square Ventures. Onboarding provisions real infrastructure in your own accounts — GitHub repositories, a Vercel project, a Supabase database, a brand kit — and you connect your own Stripe keys, so revenue flows to you directly. As of September 2026, Cofounder Pro starts at $120/month, with a Team plan at $100/seat/month still listed as coming soon.

Side by side

Question	Cofounder	AEQI
Who it's for	Technical founders who want agents inside their own GitHub, Vercel, and Stripe	Founders who want a company running today, hosted, with no accounts to wire up
Where it lives	Your own infrastructure: GitHub repos, a Vercel project, a Supabase database	A hosted Company, with a live website on its own domain
Agents and roles	Department agents across engineering, sales, marketing, design, finance, ops	Ten officer agents in named roles — CEO, CTO, COO, CFO, CMO, CRO, CPO, Chief of Staff, General Counsel, Founder’s Associate
Memory	Not published; agents share context inside a workspace	A shared memory across the Company; mail, decisions, and quests are linked
Channels	Not published	One inbox across Email, Slack, Teams, Telegram, and WhatsApp
Hosting and data	Your own GitHub, Vercel, and Supabase accounts; SOC 2 on the Team plan	One hosted Company per customer, on its own server in Germany (EU data residency)
Pricing	Cofounder Pro at $120/month; Team at $100/seat/month, on a waitlist	€50, €200, or €800 a month for 1, 4, or 16 seats; annual is 2 months free
Trial	7-day free trial	3-day free trial; 33% off Personal for 3 months through 31 October 2026
Best for	Keeping every account in your own name from day one	Launching the whole company, staffed and hosted, in minutes

Cofounder is the better choice when

You are technical and want department agents working inside your own GitHub, Vercel, and Supabase accounts, rather than a platform holding them for you, with a brand kit, positioning, SEO analysis, and ICP analysis generated as part of onboarding.
Owning the Stripe account and the repository from day one is non-negotiable, so revenue and code sit in your name from the first commit and the first sale, with an LLC incorporation add-on available once you are ready to operate.
You want to steer the work yourself, task by task and approval by approval, with SOC 2 compliance, multiplayer collaboration, and priority support once the Team plan opens, and would rather be able to migrate off the platform someday than depend on it for the accounts themselves — a real consideration if platform risk matters to you.

AEQI is the better choice when

You want the company running today rather than assembled over an afternoon of provisioning repos, projects, and database keys, with agents that already hold 314 tools across 31 services, so a new integration doesn’t require provisioning anything yourself.
You want memory that belongs to the Company itself, not context shared inside a workspace, so a decision made in June still shapes what an agent does in September, queryable rather than buried in a chat log, the way a person’s own notes would be, not a transcript nobody has time to search.
You want flat pricing you can see before you commit, rather than a usage-based plan that can run past its base price as work scales, with nothing sent, published, or paid without first passing your Decisions pane.
You are not a developer and don’t want to become one — describe the business in one sentence and the Company forms, on a server with your own name attached, with API, MCP, and CLI access if you outgrow the interface — the same afternoon you would otherwise spend just creating accounts.

The difference in one sentence

Cofounder is an orchestration layer over infrastructure you assemble, own, and keep in your own name — GitHub, Vercel, Supabase, Stripe, each wired in by hand; AEQI is the company itself — already staffed, hosted, and remembering — launched by one sentence rather than an afternoon spent wiring up separate accounts one at a time.

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Last verified 14 September 2026. Competitor facts are quoted from their public pages on that date.