Tycoon

Tycoon is a one-person company platform that gives solo founders an AI CEO named Astra and a pre-built team of 10 role agents covering marketing, engineering, finance, legal, SEO, content, customer support, video production, and research. Rather than subscribing to multiple AI point solutions or managing API keys, founders fund a Company Wallet once per month. Every model call, approved ad dollar, connector fee, and SaaS subscription the AI team incurs is metered from that wallet in real time. The platform runs on Claude via AWS Bedrock. Astra functions as the orchestration layer. Give her a KPI or project and she creates a structured plan, assigns work to the appropriate role agent, monitors outputs, and flags decisions that require founder approval based on thresholds you configure. Jordan the CMO handles paid media strategy and campaign execution. Dev the CTO writes code, manages GitHub repositories, and ships product. Sage runs SEO audits and content plans. Mike Yags reviews contracts and generates legal documents. Frankie handles customer support queues. Victor produces video content. Riley the Head of Research pulls live data, summarizes competitor moves, and briefs Astra before major decisions. The team runs 24/7 and custom roles can be spun up beyond the 10 defaults in minutes. Integration depth covers the tools most solo founders actually run on: Gmail, Slack, Google Workspace, HubSpot, Shopify, Stripe, Google Ads, and Meta Ads all connect via OAuth without API keys. Notable gaps at launch include Notion, Linear, Jira, Salesforce, and Intercom. Teams running their operations through those tools will find agents working around rather than inside their core stack. Custom agents can be configured inside the platform, though the depth of custom agent prompting is not yet documented in public-facing help docs. Pricing is wallet-based and fully transparent. The Tester plan is $49/month and includes $49 of usage credit, enough for light agent work but not sustained ad spend. The Serious plan at $499/month includes $524 in credit, a 5% bonus, suited to heavier model usage and ongoing paid campaigns. All-In at $1,499/month includes $1,649 in credit, a 10% bonus, for founders running multiple projects in parallel. All plans bill monthly with no annual lock-in. Unused credits roll over while subscribed. A $25 auto top-up triggers by default when the wallet drops below $10, configurable in settings. There is no free tier. Tycoon is not the right fit for teams requiring enterprise compliance. No SOC 2 Type II or ISO 27001 certification exists at launch. Teams running on Notion, Linear, or Salesforce as core tools will encounter integration gaps. If granular control over outreach workflows and data enrichment is the priority, Clay starts at $134/month and gives more configurability at the individual step level. If the need is multi-step cross-app automation without an AI team layer, Make.com starts at $9/month with 3,000-plus integrations. If budget is tighter, n8n offers open-source workflow automation that can be self-hosted for free. As of Q2 2026, Tycoon launched publicly on May 21, 2026 after founder Xiaoyin Qu ran an internal version at HeyBoss.ai, where Astra reportedly helped SkillBoss reach $1M ARR within 30 days. Those figures are founder-reported and have not been independently verified. No third-party review presence exists on G2, Capterra, or Gartner Peer Insights. SOC 2 and ISO 27001 are not listed on any security or compliance page. The platform is built by HeyMall, Inc. and the underlying AI models are Anthropic Claude routed via AWS Bedrock. Language support at launch includes English, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, and German.