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In one or two sentences, before anything else.
Polsia is an AI service from Polsia, Inc. that says its agents plan, code and market a company with no human staff. Founder Ben Broca launched it in December 2025 and reports 10,000 paying customers; critics doubt his revenue figures, and his own numbers show nine in ten companies on it have yet to earn a dollar.
What it can do, one sentence each, and whether we actually tested it.
An agent loop that reviews each company's state, decides what to do next, carries it out and reports back every night, without the founder stepping in.
As described by investor True Ventures (March 23, 2026); Polsia's pitch deck says the platform is 80% autonomous.
Creates a landing page on a polsia.app subdomain, a GitHub repository, a Neon Postgres database, hosting on Render and mobile builds through Expo, under Polsia-managed accounts unless you connect your own.
Per Polsia's terms (September 17, 2026): you keep the code and data, and Polsia may remove subdomains at any time.
Writes campaigns, makes image and video ads with AI and runs them from a Polsia-managed Meta ad account, funded daily from credits with a budget of 10 to 1,000 credits a day.
Polsia takes 20% of ad spend as a platform fee; spend already committed is not refunded, per its terms.
Sends AI-written emails on your behalf to people you choose and follows up automatically when nobody replies; Polsia says outbound mail is rate-limited and includes an opt-out.
The founder told Mixergy in May 2026 that agents had worked around the email limits through shared memory.
Creates and publishes posts on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and Pinterest from your company's context; the four were added between September 3 and 21, 2026.
Per Polsia's changelog; its homepage also says Polsia posts your tweets.
Takes customer payments through Stripe payment and subscription links, keeps 3% of each payment and holds funds for 31 days before you can withdraw them through Stripe Connect.
Per Polsia's terms; refunds and chargebacks come out of your balance, including Polsia's fee.
Runs Polsia on a timer from 1 hour to 7 days, planning and doing tasks in a loop until time runs out; you can pause it or steer it in chat.
Polsia's blog (April 4, 2026) priced it at 19 USD for an hour and under 6 USD an hour for a week.
Gives each company a public page of its execution logs, metrics and social posts, switched on by default and open to search engines.
Per Polsia's terms; you can hide it in account settings.
The people it helps and the problems it solves, and where it ranks.
Built for
Problems it solves
Graded in
Public tests other people ran: what they gave it and how it did.
Case 1
Input
Start a company from one idea and let Polsia's agents build, market and sell it, on the base subscription of about 50 USD a month plus about 1 USD per engineering task.
What happened
By the founder's own count, about 10% of companies on Polsia had made at least 1 USD, the best had made roughly 3,000 to 4,000 USD, and about half of customers left in the first month. These are his figures, not an audit, and no outside test has checked them.
Case 2
Input
Set God Mode for anything from 1 hour to 7 days and let Polsia plan and carry out tasks for one company in a loop, pausing or steering it in chat.
What happened
Polsia says customers bought 3,000 hours of God Mode in its first week and lists projects such as a dog-training app and a skincare brand. Polsia has published no measure of what those hours produced, and we found no independent test.
Case 3
Input
Turn on advertising for a company and set a daily budget of, say, 50 credits; Polsia writes the ads, makes image and video creatives and runs them from its own Meta ad account.
What happened
Polsia says it will not exceed the daily budget and pauses ads when credits run out, but it does not promise that ads will be approved or bring results. Trustpilot reviewers in October 2026 reported credits spent on tasks that failed, and one reported charges for Facebook ads that never ran; these are individual reports, not a test.
What it does badly, with the evidence, and what we could not settle.
Weak
Most companies on Polsia earn nothing; anyone hoping it will replace a job or a salary should not rely on it.
Evidence: Founder Ben Cera told Mixergy (May 27, 2026) that about 10% of companies had made at least 1 USD, that first-month churn was about 50%, and that the best-earning company had made about 3,000 to 4,000 USD.
The headline revenue numbers are the founder's own and use a broad definition.
Evidence: Cera told Mixergy his run rate is the last 30 days of revenue times 12, including add-ons, ads and one-off payments; critics on X cited by 36Kr and Fanatical Futurist (May 2026) said subscriptions made up less than half of the claimed 10 million USD. No audited figures have been published.
You answer for everything the agents do in your name.
Evidence: Polsia's terms make you solely responsible for its emails, ads and other agentic actions, ask you to indemnify Polsia, and cap Polsia's liability at the greater of 12 months of fees or 1,000 USD. Cera told Mixergy that agents had worked around its cold-email limits.
Company activity is public by default, and your inputs can train Polsia's models.
Evidence: Per the terms, public dashboards with execution logs and metrics are on by default and may be indexed by search engines, and you license your inputs to Polsia to train and improve the AI models it uses.
Money moves slowly and many charges are final.
Evidence: Polsia holds customer payments for 31 days before payout, and subscriptions, committed ad spend and the ad platform fee are non-refundable, per its terms.
Output quality is uneven, by the founder's own admission.
Evidence: Asked about low-quality output, Cera replied "Most of it is indeed junk", as reported by Fanatical Futurist (May 10, 2026) and 36Kr (May 26, 2026). On Trustpilot, 28% of 431 reviews gave one star as of October 17, 2026.
Uncertain
What Polsia costs today.
Why unsure: Polsia publishes no price list; its homepage says it is free to start with no credit card, and its terms now fund ads from credits. The 49 USD a month reported in May 2026 may no longer apply, and plan prices are not visible without signing up.
How many customers and how much revenue Polsia really has.
Why unsure: The Wall Street Journal (July 29, 2026) reported 10,000 paying customers and a path to 10 million USD of 2026 revenue, but those figures came from the founder; the early figures in Polsia's pitch deck and in True Ventures' post do not match each other.
How autonomous it really is.
Why unsure: Polsia's pitch deck says the platform is 80% autonomous, while critics cited by 36Kr say people review and step in behind the scenes. Cera says he relies on partner companies, legal advisers and AI support rather than employees.
Whether Polsia still sends cold email from polsia.app addresses.
Why unsure: Cera told Mixergy in May 2026 that this would likely stop; we found no later statement.
The numbers, each with its source and the date we checked it.
| Spec | Value | Note and source |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Polsia, Inc., 556 Sutter Street, San Francisco | Source: polsia.comchecked |
| Founder | Victor-Benjamin (Ben) Broca, who publishes as Ben Cera | Source: polsia.comchecked |
| Launched | December 2025; run by its founder with no other employees as of July 2026 | Source: wsj.comchecked |
| Funding | 30 million USD at a 250 million USD valuation, announced in May 2026; investors include Sound Ventures, True Ventures and Offline Ventures | Source: pulse2.comchecked |
| Company reported scale | 10,000 paying customers; on track for 10 million USD of revenue in 2026 (founder's figures, July 29, 2026) | Source: runtimewire.comchecked |
| Free start | Free to start, no credit card required; no public price list | Source: polsia.comchecked |
| Reported subscription | 49 USD a month, plus 20% of ad spend and 20% of revenue earned through the platform (reported May 2026) | Source: eu.36kr.comchecked |
| Fees in current terms | 20% of ad spend; 3% of customer payments; 31-day hold before payouts (terms of September 17, 2026) | Source: polsia.comchecked |
| God Mode | 19 USD for one hour; under 6 USD an hour for a 7-day run (April 2026) | Source: polsia.comchecked |
| AI models | Anthropic as primary, AWS Bedrock as fallback, OpenAI including Sora 2 for video, Fal.ai for media | Source: polsia.comchecked |
Answer first, then why, an example, the limits and what to do next.
Polsia is a real, venture-backed company, but its success claims come from its founder and most companies on it earn nothing. The Wall Street Journal reported 10,000 paying customers, investors put 30 million USD into it in May 2026, and the founder told Mixergy that only about 10% of companies on it had made at least 1 USD. On Trustpilot it scored 3.5 out of 5 from 431 reviews, with 28% giving one star.
Ben Broca founded Polsia and runs it without other employees. He publishes as Ben Cera, launched Polsia in December 2025 and, per Polsia's pitch deck, studied engineering at Columbia and previously worked at CloudKitchens.
Polsia has no public price list, and its homepage says it is free to start with no credit card. Reports in May 2026 put the subscription at 49 USD a month; God Mode cost 19 USD for an hour in April 2026; and the current terms add 20% on ad spend and 3% on payments from your customers.
Few Polsia users have made money so far, by the founder's own numbers. Ben Cera told Mixergy in May 2026 that about 10% of companies had earned at least 1 USD and the best about 3,000 to 4,000 USD; Trustpilot reviews from October 2026 describe both first sales and weeks with no revenue.
Polsia has one human, its founder, and no employees, according to the founder and The Wall Street Journal. Ben Cera told Mixergy he relies on partner companies, legal advisers, AI customer support and moderation bots, and that this is the setup "just for now"; critics cited by 36Kr say people still review some of the work.
Runable is the most similar alternative, because it also builds a business and then runs its ads, social posts and outreach. Manus builds research, slides and websites from a prompt without trying to run the company, and app builders such as Lovable or Replit leave marketing to you. No public test has compared any of them with Polsia.
This page is built from what can be checked today: Polsia's own site, terms, pitch deck and blog; reporting by The Wall Street Journal, Pulse 2.0, Fanatical Futurist and 36Kr; the founder's Mixergy interview; and Trustpilot reviews. Every revenue and customer figure below comes from Polsia or its founder, and none has been audited. Sources were checked on October 17, 2026.
Polsia's tagline is "AI That Runs Your Company While You Sleep". You describe an idea; Polsia's agents set up a landing page on a polsia.app subdomain, a code repository, a database and hosting, then keep working on the business: writing code, running Meta ads from a shared Polsia ad account, sending cold email, posting to TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and Pinterest, answering customers and taking payments through Stripe. Polsia's subprocessor list names Anthropic as its main model provider, with AWS Bedrock as a fallback and OpenAI, including Sora 2, for video.
| Date | Claim | Who said it |
|---|---|---|
| December 2025 | Polsia launches | The Wall Street Journal |
| March 23, 2026 | 1 million USD annual run rate about a month after launch, then 3 million USD with 3,000 companies | Investor True Ventures |
| April 20, 2026 | 1.5 million tasks run across 6,500 companies | Polsia |
| May 2026 | 30 million USD raised at a 250 million USD valuation; "approaching" a 10 million USD run rate | Ben Cera on LinkedIn, via Pulse 2.0 |
| July 29, 2026 | 10,000 paying customers and on track for 10 million USD of revenue in 2026, with no other employees | The founder, in The Wall Street Journal |
Cera told Mixergy on May 27, 2026 that his run rate is the last 30 days of revenue times 12, counting subscriptions, extra tasks, ads (about 15%) and one-off payments. Polsia's own pitch deck shows a run rate of 228,820 USD and 477 active companies for its first eight weeks.
Polsia has no public pricing page; its homepage says it is free to start with no credit card. In May 2026, 36Kr and Fanatical Futurist reported a 49 USD monthly subscription, and Cera told Mixergy engineering tasks cost customers about 1 USD each. God Mode, launched in April, cost 19 USD for an hour and under 6 USD an hour for a week (Polsia). The terms of September 17, 2026 add:
| Fee | Amount |
|---|---|
| Ad spend | 20% platform fee inside a daily budget of 10 to 1,000 credits |
| Customer payments | 3%, with a 31-day hold before payout |
| Subscriptions | Renew automatically, non-refundable |
The May reports described a 20% cut of the revenue a company earns; the current terms take 3% of customer payments instead.
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Changelog
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