The General Intelligence Company

The General Intelligence Company is an applied AI lab founded in January 2025 by Andrew Pignanelli and Abhishyant Khare. Based in New York, it builds autonomous AI agents designed to handle day-to-day business operations, with the stated aim of allowing anyone to start and run a business with minimal human operational overhead. Its technical work spans applied AI, autonomous agents, workflow automation and agentic operations automation.

The company's product, Cofounder, is an autonomous agent platform that connects to essential business tools - including Gmail, Slack, Notion, Linear, Google Workspace, GitHub and Airtable - to run business workflows end-to-end. The platform is conceived as a full staff of AI agents available 24/7. The company operates across the startups and entrepreneurship, small business operations and business productivity software verticals, and cites a market of over 400 million businesses globally, with 1 billion more expected to launch in the coming years.

Its stated mission is to enable the "one-person, one-billion-dollar company", with a vision in which humans focus on creativity and strategic direction while AI handles operational execution. The company describes its outlook as aimed at making all businesses "agent-native".