> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Build an autonomous AI company

> Run a one-person company with a full AI team — agents that work on their own and report to you.

Orbit's real promise for a solopreneur: a **one-person company with a full AI team.** You're the founder and the operator. Your agents are the staff — they do the work, on their own, and report to you. This page is the big picture of how that comes together.

## The shift

Most people use AI one task at a time: open a chat, ask, close it. An autonomous AI company flips that. Instead of *doing* the work with AI, you **direct a team** that does the work for you:

* A researcher that gathers what you need every morning.
* An outreach agent that drafts and queues messages.
* A content agent that keeps your pipeline full.
* A data agent that pulls numbers and flags what changed.

Each is an agent. Together they're your company. You run it from one dashboard.

## How you staff it

You have three ways to add a teammate — use whichever is fastest:

1. **Launch a ready-made [Orbie](/use/launch-orbie).** One click, integrations pre-wired. The fastest hire.
2. **[Build one from a goal](/use/agent-builder).** Describe the job; Agent Builder makes the agent.
3. **[Connect a tool you already use](/use/connect-claude).** Bring Claude, Codex, and others into the team.

Mix and match freely — they all share one brain and one dashboard.

## How you run it (without babysitting)

The trick to *autonomous* is that you're not clicking "go" all day. You set things up once and the company runs:

* **Decisions** set the rules every agent follows — your pricing, your voice, your dos and don'ts. Decide once; the whole team obeys. ([Decisions](/concepts/decisions))
* **Schedules** put recurring work on autopilot — mornings handled before you wake. ([On a schedule](/claude-education/cowork))
* **Orbit Cloud** keeps agents running whether your laptop is open or not.
* **Your Briefing** is your morning stand-up — one card per agent, what they did overnight. ([Briefing](/concepts/briefing))
* **Your Inbox** is where you approve what becomes part of the company's memory. ([Inbox](/concepts/inbox))

You go from *doing everything* to *reviewing and directing* — which is what running a company actually is.

## Why it compounds

A normal AI stack resets every session. An autonomous company **remembers**. Every agent reads what the others figured out and files what it produces back to the shared [Vault](/concepts/vault). So your company gets smarter every day instead of starting over — and one person can run something that used to need a team.

## Your first week

1. **Day 1:** Connect Orbit and launch one Orbie. Watch it file its first work.
2. **Day 2:** Set two or three decisions (your rules).
3. **Day 3:** Put one agent on a daily schedule.
4. **Rest of week:** Add a couple more teammates, and start each morning in your Briefing.

By the end you're running a small AI company — solo.

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  <Card title="Launch your first Orbie" icon="rocket" href="/use/launch-orbie">
    A working teammate in one click.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Set your first decision" icon="gavel" href="/use/update-decision">
    A rule every agent will follow.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>