Auto-Company is an 🏷️#open-source autonomous AI system, created by Zheyuan "Max" Kong and released under the MIT License, that runs a self-directed "company" of AI agents around the clock on a personal computer. It orchestrates role-based agents that ideate products, make decisions, write and deploy code, and run marketing in continuous 24-hour cycles with no human in the loop.
Built primarily in shell script with Node.js support, Auto-Company models fourteen expert personas — a Bezos-inspired CEO, a CTO, product designers, full-stack engineers, QA, and business leads — and coordinates them through agentic workflows. It runs as a background daemon on macOS, Windows/WSL, and Linux, defaults to 📝Claude Code as its execution engine with OpenAI's Codex CLI as an alternative, and ships a local web dashboard for cycle status and cost. Operators steer it by editing a consensus file rather than prompting each step, and hard guardrails block destructive operations.
Key Features
- Autonomous 24/7 cycles — Runs continuous 24-hour build cycles on a personal computer with no human prompting.
- Fourteen expert personas — Role-based agents spanning strategy, design, engineering, QA, and business.
- Dual execution engines — Claude Code by default, with OpenAI's Codex CLI as an alternative.
- File-based steering — Redirect operations by editing a consensus file instead of prompting each step.
- Safety guardrails — Hard constraints that block destructive operations.