From the Desk of Anthony Pompliano FULL INTERVIEW: He Started A $5 Million Company With No Employees
Mar 24, 2026
Ben Cera, founder of Pulsia, built a multi‑million dollar company run by AI agents with him as the only human. He explains how autonomous agent workflows build products, fix bugs, market, and report. Topics include Pulsia’s technical stack, cost and revenue model, autonomy versus automation, scalability limits of vibe coding, and security tradeoffs with agent-driven businesses.
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Agent SDKs Are The Critical Layer
- Pulsia's stack is simple: Node.js, Postgres, cron jobs, and agent SDKs (OpenAI/Anthropic/Entropic) orchestration running in the cloud.
- Ben emphasizes agent SDKs are the core innovation enabling agentic workflows at runtime.
Autonomy Means Outcome-Driven Decisions
- Autonomy differs from automation because agents evaluate state and choose tasks (bugs vs marketing vs scaling) rather than running fixed scripts.
- Pulsia runs cron-like heartbeats but can be triggered by events (emails, webhooks) to mimic team behavior.
Built $6M Run Rate On ~ $50k Spend
- Ben spent very little cash building Pulsia: mainly his salary, a MacBook, two monitors, and AI subscriptions, totaling roughly $50k.
- He rotated multiple model subscriptions to avoid exhaustion and kept infrastructure minimal on Render/Postgres.