the duo is the companyYou don't need a team to ship like one.
Most founders hit the same wall: the product needs ten things done, you can do two of them, and hiring a developer means three months of runway and a person you can't yet afford to be wrong about. Agentation removes that fork. You stay the duo — one of you owns the product, the other the go-to-market — and the agents are the build capacity you'd otherwise have to raise for. No headcount, no equity split with a contractor, no Slack to manage. The company stays exactly as small as your conviction, and ships at the cadence of a funded team.
- Hiring an engineer is a 6-figure, 3-month bet; an agent ships this afternoon.
- Stay two people through the part where most startups bloat their burn.
- Build capacity scales with the work, not with your payroll.
no new billIt runs on the AI plan you already have.
Founders are allergic to new line items, and they should be. Agentation doesn't resell tokens or mark up a model — the agents run on your existing Claude or coding-AI subscription, the one already on the company card. The code lives in your GitHub, on your repos, under your account. We never hold your source, never run your model, never sit between you and your infra. So the marginal cost of shipping another feature is the cost of the AI minutes you were already paying for — not a SaaS seat that grows with your team you don't have.
- Agents run on your own AI subscription — no token resale, no markup.
- Your code stays in your GitHub, under your account, on your infra.
- EU-hosted (Hetzner, Germany), Supabase in the EU, GDPR by default.
annotate, don't specPoint at the live product and say what's wrong.
Founders think in the product, not in tickets. Agentation runs your actual app in a browser and lets you annotate it where you see it — this button is dead, this flow loses people, this screen feels cheap, add onboarding here. Each annotation becomes a task an agent picks up. You're never translating a gut feeling into a Jira card and hoping a stranger reads it right; you mark the exact pixel and describe the outcome. That's the speed multiplier that matters at two people — the loop from 'this is wrong' to 'this is fixed and live' has no handoff in it.
- Annotate the running product — bug, feature or design — in one click.
- Every mark becomes a task; no backlog grooming, no spec docs.
- The fix comes back reviewed and live, not as a branch to babysit.
the structure protects youA Tech Lead keeps a tiny team from shipping a mess.
The danger of building fast with no engineers is the obvious one: you accumulate software nobody understands, and the day you finally raise and hire, your first engineer quits at the codebase. Agentation puts a Tech Lead between you and the agents. You encode your standards once — architecture, conventions, security, the rules of your domain — and every agent boots inside them. Deterministic gates run before anything reaches production: lint, types, tests, a security scan. Green or it doesn't ship. So the speed you get as a duo doesn't buy you debt you pay back at Series A — it buys you a codebase a real engineer can actually inherit.
- Encode your standards once; agents can't ship outside them.
- Lint, types, tests and security gate every change before prod.
- What you accumulate is governed code — not a rewrite waiting to happen.
what changes day oneYour week stops being blocked on build.
Before Agentation, a founding duo spends its weeks waiting — for the freelancer's evening, for the no-code tool's ceiling, for the one of you who can code to surface from the queue. After, the build is never the bottleneck. You wake up, look at the product, mark what's wrong and what's next, and by the time you've done a sales call the changes are live and verified. The scarce resource goes back to where it belongs at this stage: deciding what to build and finding who wants it — not fighting your own stack to make it exist.
- Ship multiple verified changes a day without writing code.
- Spend founder hours on customers and direction, not on implementation.
- Validate, iterate and pivot at the speed your runway actually needs.
FAQI'm a non-technical founder — can I actually use this?
Yes — it's built for exactly that. You drive the product by annotating the live app and describing outcomes in plain language; the agents write and ship the code, and a Tech Lead plus automatic gates guarantee it's correct. You need to know what good looks like for your product, not how to write it.
What does it cost on top of my AI subscription?
The agents run on the AI plan you already pay for — your own Claude or coding-AI subscription — so there's no per-seat resale of tokens. You pay for Agentation itself, not for the model behind it, and the marginal cost of shipping is the AI minutes you were already buying.
Won't building this fast leave me with a codebase I can't maintain or hand off?
That's the failure mode the Tech Lead exists to prevent. Agents work inside conventions and a maintainability bar you encode once, and deterministic checks gate every change before production. The result is governed, reviewable code in your own GitHub — the kind your first real engineering hire can inherit instead of rewrite.
Where does my code and data live — do you keep any of it?
No. Your code stays in your GitHub under your account and runs on your infrastructure; the agents run on your AI subscription. Agentation is EU-hosted (Hetzner, Germany) with data in the EU and GDPR compliance by default. We never hold your source or run your model.
How is this different from a no-code builder like the ones I've tried?
No-code tools hit a ceiling — the moment you need something they didn't anticipate, you're stuck or exporting a mess. Agentation produces real code in your own repo, with no ceiling on what it can build, plus a structure (Tech Lead and gates) that keeps quality high as you grow. You own a real codebase, not a hostage to a builder's roadmap.