The complete guide to launching a modern, AI-enabled company: LLC registration, professional email, automated deployments, free AI code reviews, and a monorepo structure that puts your entire business in one place. Even payment processing is significantly cheaper.
Work with Perplexity, OpenCode, or Claude on the input side, then let CI validate code and business docs before CrewAI reviews every commit. This loop scales from solo founders to multi-founder teams and even tens of employees before you need to rethink structure. Humans decide; AI executes.
Active Stage
This repo is the entire company: code, docs, operations, and decisions. CI validates business documentation alongside software, then CrewAI reviews the diff and logs to surface fixes before you merge.
Focus
Every commit gets a base review of the diff + CI logs, then the router spins up deeper reviews (legal, marketing, board, ops). You decide what to adopt and feed the guidance back into the next agent run.
It's not about money or time. It's decision paralysis.
Which hosting? Which email? Which payment processor? Which accounting tool? 47 tabs open, still no answer.
"What if I pick the wrong one?" Spend 3 weeks researching. Never start. Your idea dies in a spreadsheet.
Everyone says you need $247/month in tools before you earn $1. You don't even know if your idea will work yet.
This isn't a "here are your options" guide. This is a "do this, then this, then this" blueprint.
Use Fidelity business stock account. Done. No comparing 14 banks. We chose the one with no fees and investment options built-in.
Don't like it? Change it. No lock-in.
Use Helcim. Transparent pricing, $0/month, significantly cheaper than competitors. Done.
Don't like it? Change it. No lock-in.
Use Cloudflare Pages. 500k requests/month free, global CDN, automatic HTTPS. Done.
Don't like it? Change it. No lock-in.
Gmail + Cloudflare forwarding. Free, professional ([email protected]), works perfectly. Done.
Don't like it? Change it. No lock-in.
Perplexity Spaces + CrewAI + OpenRouter. Free tiers work great. Sub-penny AI costs. Done.
Don't like it? Change it. No lock-in.
Monorepo with everything in one place. Docs, code, legal, operations. One search finds everything. Done.
Don't like it? Change it. No lock-in.
We're not selling you tools. We're giving you a starting point. Every decision we made can be changed. Nothing is locked. Everything is replaceable.
Doesn't matter if you're mowing lawns, delivering widgets, building AI models, or running an e-commerce store. The foundation is the same.
Lawn care, cleaning, consulting, freelancing. You need:
Local delivery, courier, moving. You need:
Selling physical or digital products online. You need:
Software, AI APIs, subscriptions. You need:
Every business needs: legal structure (LLC + EIN), professional presence (domain + email), payment processing (accept money from customers), and operations (document your processes). This blueprint gives you all of that. What you do with it is up to you.
You've been told you need monthly subscriptions. That's a lie.
Every cost listed. No hidden fees. No "contact us for pricing." Just honest numbers.
MIT License. Fork it. Modify it. You own it. No proprietary lock-in. No strings attached.
This isn't theoretical. We built real businesses this way. It works. We have the receipts.
The subscription economy wants you to rent forever. We want you to own your foundation and only pay for what you actually use (like payment processing fees when you make sales).
Your entire company—legal docs, infrastructure config, code, operations—lives in one private GitHub repo with AI agents helping you build and maintain it.
Follow 8 comprehensive guides. No prior business experience required.
A repeatable AI workflow that works across Perplexity, OpenCode, and Claude Code. We ship a full standards bundle so every agent follows the same rules, review checkpoints, and best practices.
Start with OPENCODE.md (primary) or CLAUDE.md (compat). Both route into the canonical instruction set.
Autonomy boundaries, error recovery, contribution standards, and context controls live in docs/agentic/.
A 14-step workflow with design + code review gates keeps AI changes transparent, reviewable, and safe to merge.
Follow docs/agentic/instructions.md for reading order and guardrails.
Use the bundled standards to keep every PR consistent and auditable.
Design review, code review, and status approval keep humans in control of merges and deployments.
Perplexity Spaces: paste docs/agentic/instructions.md into the Space and upload the rest of docs/agentic/. No GitHub syncing required during active work.
Everything you need to know about startup expenses
| Item | Cost | Type |
|---|---|---|
| LLC Filing | ~$50-100 | One-time |
| Domain (10 years) | ~$105 | Prepaid |
| EIN (Federal Tax ID) | $0 | Free (IRS) |
| GitHub (private repos) | $0 | Free tier |
| Cloudflare (DNS + Hosting) | $0 | Free tier |
| AI Code Reviews (CrewAI) | $0 | Free tier |
| Helcim Payment Processing | $0/mo | Pay per transaction only |
| Total | ~$150 | Then $0/month |
💡 Why prepay domain for 10 years? Forgetting to renew once and paying domain recovery fees ($100-$300) or losing your brand forever costs way more than prepaying ~$105. Lock in your domain for a decade.
Transparent interchange-plus pricing with no monthly fees
Average cost for card-present transactions. PIN debit as low as 2.16% + 8¢.
Average cost for card-not-present transactions. Simple, transparent pricing.
Capped at $6 per transaction. Send directly to Fidelity with no fee.
Pass credit card fees to customers (surcharging). You pay 0% for credit cards.
💡 Pro Tip: Generate Helcim invoices for customers who need payment flexibility, or create cash invoices and have ACH payments sent directly to your Fidelity account at 0.5% + 25¢ (capped at $6). No monthly fees, ever.
Your business funds can earn returns while staying liquid
FDIC-insured sweep accounts with competitive rates. Your operating cash earns interest automatically.
Invest profits while building your business. Index funds, sector ETFs, or individual stocks.
Bitcoin, Ethereum, and more. Diversify with digital assets directly from your business account.
Gold, silver, platinum, palladium. Hedge against inflation with physical and paper metal investments.
Your entire business in one private GitHub repository
Everything you need is waiting in the GitHub repo. Fork it, make it private, and follow the guides.
MIT License • Use freely, modify as needed • No attribution required