Comparison
AEQI vs NanoCorp
NanoCorp turns one prompt into a business running on its own payment and ad accounts, with a cut of what it earns. AEQI builds a Company you keep, for a flat price.
June 11, 2026 · Luca Eich
Choose NanoCorp if you want to find out this month whether a small product idea can make money at all, with payments and ads running through NanoCorp’s own accounts and its own advertiser relationships doing the work for you.
Choose AEQI if you are building a company you intend to still be running, and paying a flat monthly price for, next year rather than a percentage of whatever it happens to earn.
What NanoCorp is
NanoCorp calls itself, as stated on nanocorp.so in September 2026, a way to “launch an autonomous AI business — a long-running software entity where agents perform work on a schedule” — content, outreach, ops, ads — with no human in the loop. It is YC-backed. The unit of the product is a business: one prompt produces a live site, Stripe products, and a work schedule, steered from a dashboard or by chat. Agents run in isolated sandboxes on Modal with per-task budget caps. As of September 2026, a 3-day trial gives 15 welcome credits with no card; the Founder tier is $30 a month for 30 credits, scaling to roughly 2,000 credits a month, and withdrawals carry a 20% fee.
Side by side
| Question | NanoCorp | AEQI |
|---|---|---|
| Who it's for | Anyone who wants to test whether a small product idea can make money this month | Founders building a company they intend to still be running next year |
| Where it lives | A business on a nanocorp.so subdomain, steered from a dashboard or by chat | A Company with its own live website on its own domain and a server provisioned for you |
| Agents and roles | A CEO agent coordinating work across content, outreach, ops, and ads | Ten officer agents in named roles: CEO, CTO, COO, CFO, CMO, CRO, CPO, Chief of Staff, General Counsel, and Founder's Associate |
| Memory | Persistent memory per agent, inside isolated sandboxes, with per-task budget caps | A shared memory across every role — mail, decisions, and quests every agent reads and adds to |
| Channels | A dashboard and a chat interface for steering the business | Email, Slack, Teams, Telegram, and WhatsApp, plus API, MCP, and CLI |
| Hosting and data | Agents run in isolated sandboxes on Modal; no published data-residency or compliance detail | One hosted Company per customer, on its own server in Germany, with EU data residency |
| Pricing | From $30 a month for 30 credits, scaling to roughly $2,000 a month; 20% fee on withdrawals | €50, €200, or €800 a month per Company for 1, 4, or 16 seats; annual is 2 months free |
| Trial | 3 days free, 15 welcome credits, no card required | 3 days free; founding offer takes 33% off Personal's first 3 months through 31 October 2026 |
| Best for | Testing whether a small idea can make its first dollars fast | Building the company you still want to be running next year |
NanoCorp is the better choice when
- You want to find out this week whether a small product idea can make money at all, and you are comfortable routing payments and ads through NanoCorp’s own accounts to get there fastest, with someone else’s infrastructure and advertiser relationships doing the heavy lifting while you focus on the offer and the copy.
- You want to try it without a card: 15 welcome credits and a 3-day trial let you see a live business running, with a site, products, and an outreach schedule, before you decide whether the 20% withdrawal fee is worth paying once real money starts arriving.
- You want agents that just execute — content, outreach, ops, ads on a schedule — and you are the one deciding what the business becomes next, prompt by prompt, rather than delegating the deciding itself to a team of named roles.
AEQI is the better choice when
- You are building something you want to still be running, and paying flat for, next year, not an experiment you are testing this month with a percentage taken off every withdrawal you eventually make from it.
- You want a shared memory across every role, not memory scoped to isolated sandboxes per agent, so the Company gets smarter as a whole rather than one agent at a time forgetting what another agent already learned last quarter, with nothing above either one keeping a combined record.
- You want named departments — building, marketing, sales, an executive assistant — with a Decisions pane that asks before anything is published, sent, or paid, not a single CEO agent coordinating everything alone on a fixed schedule.
- You want a flat monthly subscription, not a 20% cut of whatever the business eventually earns, and a Company hosted on its own server in Germany rather than a shared sandbox on someone else’s cloud, billed by the task, with your own model chosen per seat rather than fixed by the platform.
The difference in one sentence
NanoCorp is a fast way to test whether a small idea can make money, using NanoCorp’s own accounts and taking a cut of what comes back; AEQI is the company you keep, staffed and remembering what it has tried, for a flat monthly price whatever it happens to earn that month.
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Last verified 14 September 2026. Competitor facts are quoted from their public pages on that date.