How 3 founders and AI agents run a company with no employees or departments
AmosBarJoseph · reddit · 2026-09-10
The co-founder of Swan AI shares how 3 people with no employees split work last year: three roles instead of departments, each owning a full outcome, tracking ARR per person. The author handled revenue end-to-end with agents doing campaigns and pipeline; Niv directed AI to ship features rather than coding much; Ido built the internal agent infrastructure everyone ran on. He credits zero handoffs — no one waits on anyone — and admits the model likely breaks once each role no longer fits in one person's head.
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