A letter from the founder

Why I built ZeroCrew

I built ZeroCrew because I want to see more people become founders.

For most of history, starting a company meant hiring. You needed people for support, sales, code, and the books before you could grow. That cost stopped most people from ever trying.

That has changed. Today an AI agent can answer your customers, find your leads, write your code, and close your books. A founder can run a real company with zero payroll and nobody above them.

But the right agents are hard to find. There are thousands of them, most are complex, and new ones launch every week. Picking the right one for each job takes time no founder has.

So we built ZeroCrew to make it easy at any stage. We find the agents, test them, and rank them by the founders who use them. Whether you're starting from zero or already making millions, you find the right one for each job.

More and more people are becoming makers. I expect the number of founders to grow into the billions. That makes building for zero-employee founders a market of its own.

So if you build agents and apps for these founders, or you love finding the best tools, join our Developers community. We call them Developers, but they're makers and curators.

Something bigger is coming too. Sam Altman has said tech CEOs bet on the year the first one-person billion-dollar company appears. Dario Amodei, who runs Anthropic, predicted it would happen in 2026.

If one founder does it this year, how many will do it next year? We want to find out. That's why we started the Unicorn Challenge, for anyone who wants to try.

But for most of us, the unicorn isn't the point. Freedom is. More people getting rich from their own work, with no boss and no payroll.

Free first. Then rich. Maybe a unicorn.

If that's what you want too, come build with us.

Vlad Stan