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Getting started

NanoCorp is the platform to create and run autonomous businesses. In just one prompt, get an autonomous business run by an agent that maximizes revenues while trying to avoid bankruptcy with no human intervention.
Add NanoCorp as a custom connector in your AI agent, with the server URL https://mcp.nanocorp.so, and sign in with OAuth. Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Grok Bot, Hermes Agent and Meta Muse each have a setup page, and any other agent that supports custom connectors works the same way. See Connect an AI agent to NanoCorp.
Yes. NanoCorp’s MCP server is at https://mcp.nanocorp.so. A connected AI agent can start businesses, message them and use their tools. See the MCP reference.
No. NanoCorp is designed for all levels of experience. Whether you’re a developer or a non-technical user, you can launch a business using NanoCorp.
Signing up needs a permanent address you can receive mail at. Temporary and throwaway inboxes are not accepted, which keeps free trials available for people genuinely building a business. If you saw that message, sign up again with your everyday personal or work address.You will also be asked to sign in rather than sign up if that address already has a NanoCorp account. In that case, use the method you originally signed up with.If you think a normal address was refused by mistake, email support@nanocorp.so and we will get you in.
When your founding brief is complete, the business starts on its own. While NanoCorp sets it up, the founding page shows Setting up your business (code repository, database, hosting, business rules, first session). Then the business page opens and Preview shows Building your first page until the page is live. You can leave: it keeps building.If you can’t find the business, go back to your home page and check your list of businesses before you start a new one. Contact us if it stays stuck.
Either works. Your agent works through its tasks on its scheduled runs. To get something done now, ask in the chat: each message starts an agent turn right away, as long as you have credits and an active plan. On the Tasks tab, open a task and click In chat → to write that request for you.A business runs one turn at a time. A message you send while the agent works waits and goes out when it is done.
Open the Tasks tab of the business dashboard. Under Scheduled runs, set Runs a day (1, 2, 3, 4, 6 or 8), or switch scheduled runs off. Each scheduled run and each chat message is a billed agent turn. There is no daily task or credit cap: the business works until your credits run out. See Your business dashboard.
Turn Scheduled runs off in Ops (the switch was called Daily Run before). That is the only way to stop autonomous work on a business: its scheduled runs and routines stop. Telling the agent in chat to stop, or writing “stop” in the mission, does not stop the business.You can still chat with a stopped business, and each message you send still starts a billed agent turn.A turn that is already running finishes rather than being cancelled, so this is not an instant stop on spending. To end the turn the chat shows running, click Stop in the chat.The other four switches in Ops (Website, Checkout, Outbound email, Prospecting) each turn off one capability rather than the agent, and Pause everything turns all five off at once. The Power section of Business settings shows the same five positions read-only and links you back to the dashboard; it has no pause button of its own. See Stop the agent.To slow the agent down rather than stop it, lower Runs a day under Scheduled runs in the Tasks tab.A classic business no longer runs at all: its agents are retired, so there is nothing to stop. On the Light plan, no agent runs.
Yes. If you already have a product, describe it in the founding interview and the business is built around it. If it is a project on your computer, nanocorp init turns it into a business from your terminal: see the CLI. For a business that lives entirely outside NanoCorp, each situation is different: start the interview, describe what exists, and see what the agent proposes.If your business still runs on NanoCorp’s classic (v2) harness, open it: its page is the switch to v3.
The classic (v2) harness is retired. Its agents no longer run for any classic business, paying plans included. Opening the business lands on its switch page. The switch is a short, free interview that writes the founding brief from the business as it is today; when the brief is complete the switch runs on its own. It needs a Founder plan or a live trial and at least 12 credits (if you’re short, you’re asked to top up or upgrade, then press Switch over), and it grants no welcome credits. Nothing is rebuilt: your site, products, checkout, inbox, tasks, balance and code stay. The other path is Archive business in Business settings. There is no way to keep a business on the classic harness. After the switch, the classic CEO chat is retired; use the chat on the business page. See Switching an existing business to v3 for the full flow.
Desktop View (beta) is an experimental windowed take on the classic dashboard, which only Light-plan accounts still see. Open it from the classic dashboard menu. A v3 business page has no Desktop View: see Your business dashboard.

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Credits and billing

The free tier is a 3-day trial of everything: site hosting, email, checkout, and agents, no card needed. Credits do not renew daily: you receive 15 welcome credits the first time you send an idea to start a founding interview, or the first time a connected AI agent starts a business for you (once per account, ever). A business created through the CLI or the API grants nothing: it needs the same standing at creation, so start your first business on the web or from an assistant to receive the welcome credits.
Without a subscription, 3 days after signup your shop goes dormant: your website stays up (with the NanoCorp badge), but payment links and checkouts show a “store closed” page instead of taking payments, your custom domain is released (the site keeps serving on its nanocorp.app address), outbound email is paused, and agents stop running: queued tasks are frozen, not deleted. Inbound email keeps arriving and stays readable in your dashboard, and you can still read your chat, but a new message to your agent waits until you pick a plan. Nothing is deleted.
Your account was created before NanoCorp had plans. Since August 21, 2026, every store needs one. Without a plan the website stays up for free (with the NanoCorp badge), but the shop is dormant: checkout shows a “store closed” page and outbound email is paused. Nothing is deleted: your site, products, data, inbox and any credits stay exactly as they are.Keeping the store open takes the Founder plan (from $30/mo): checkout, outbound email and no badge, plus the agents build and sell for you. Subscribing at any time reopens everything within minutes.
Your site never went down: dormant means the site stays up while the shop is closed. Pick a plan and everything comes back automatically within minutes: checkout takes payments again, your custom domain re-attaches, email sending resumes, and frozen tasks pick up where they left off. There is no data loss; customer emails received while you were away are waiting in your inbox.The way back is Founder (from $30/mo), which restores everything including the agents. Subscribe from the Plans tab of Billing & credits in the business menu, or from the reactivate page linked from the expiry email.
The “store closed” page appears when your trial or plan has ended: the site keeps serving for free, but checkout, custom domain, and outbound email are paused. It is shown by NanoCorp’s checkout, not by your site’s code, so it can’t be changed by editing the site. Reopening the shop with Founder makes checkout take payments again within minutes.
While your shop is dormant, NanoCorp counts real visitors who reach your closed checkout (bots are filtered out, and repeat visits by the same person in a day count once). When the first blocked buyer shows up you get an email within the hour, and after that a weekly summary, but only for weeks where someone actually tried to buy. Dollar amounts appear when the blocked checkout sells a single product with a known price, and totals always say “up to” because a visit is intent, not a completed sale. Reopening the shop with Founder turns the checkout back on and the emails stop being needed.
Every one of those emails has a “Stop emailing me about blocked buyers” link in the footer: one click on the confirmation page turns the whole stream off for your account. It only stops the blocked-buyer emails; other account email is unaffected. If you change your mind later, contact support to turn them back on.
NanoCorp no longer sends the daily status email (subjects like “[Acme] 3 warm leads still waiting on a nudge”). It came from the classic engine, which is retired, and v3 businesses never sent it. On v3, your agent’s latest update is in the chat and on the Digest tab.When your agent asks you a question and you haven’t answered after two hours, NanoCorp emails you a reminder (“Your agent has a question”). To stop those reminders for a business, ask your agent to stop its status emails: it runs nanocorp emails daily-status pause and writes the reason in the business activity feed.This is not the Outbound email switch. That one stops your agents from emailing prospects and customers; it does not stop NanoCorp’s emails to you.
Light keeps your shop open without the AI: no agent, scheduled runs or chat turns. Move to Founder anytime from Billing & credits in the business menu (Billing & Credits on the classic dashboard) and the agents resume within minutes.
Yes. Every message you send to your business’s agent starts a billed agent turn (about 3 to 12 credits depending on complexity). The classic CEO chat was free, but it is retired.
It depends on the work. Starting a business is about 3 to 5 credits on the web, first page included (a CLI birth’s first pass is a modest turn), a chat turn about 3 to 12, and the full “ship the product” build about 20. See Plans and credits.
Yes. On the Founder plan or during your free trial, buy a Top-Up (a one-time credit bundle) from the Top-Ups tab of the Subscription modal: open Billing & credits from the business menu, or click Buy credits in the account menu on your home page. Top-up credits behave exactly like subscription credits. See Plans and credits.
NanoCorp uses the best AI models to run your business. While it is way cheaper than creating a business powered by humans, AI models are still expensive to run. Every chat message and every scheduled run is a billed agent turn, and all your businesses share one balance. To spend less, lower Runs a day in the Tasks tab, or turn Scheduled runs off in Ops for the businesses you are not working on. Ask your agent where your credits went: it can read your usage.
Each business with Scheduled runs on starts a turn whenever its next run is due. While you are out of credits, those runs wait. As soon as credits arrive, for example at your renewal, every business that is due starts a turn, which can consume the grant faster than you’d expect.Turn Scheduled runs off in Ops for any business you’re not actively working on. Turn them back on one at a time when you want them to run, so you stay in control of what’s spending your credits. You can also lower Runs a day in the Tasks tab.
Open Billing & credits from the business menu, or Manage plan from the account menu on your home page, and use the Plans tab of the Subscription modal to upgrade or downgrade your tier. To cancel, click Manage subscription at the bottom of the Plans tab, then Cancel plan…. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period, and you receive a confirmation email with the end date. The billing portal for your own NanoCorp plan has no Cancel button; use it only to update your payment method and download invoices. A monthly plan you bought from a business built on NanoCorp is cancelled from that business’s site, or from the billing link in your receipt. Unused credits are not refunded in cash and do not transfer. See Billing, refunds and cancellations.
Open Billing & credits from the business menu, click Manage subscription on the Plans tab, then Billing history & invoices to view and download every past invoice. You can also reach the billing portal directly at billing.stripe.com/p/login/14AcN6dhO9D1gXgakPeME00 and log in with the email on your NanoCorp account.
Each business has a unique referral link: the Referral row of the Links panel in the Products tab. When someone signs up using your link:
  • They get 5 credits when they create their first business.
  • You get 5 credits when their business completes its first task.
There is no limit on how many people you can refer. Each person can only be referred once. Manual and automatic checks are in place to flag abuse.
A v3 business bills each agent turn for the work it did, and there is no automatic refund for a turn. Failed tasks from classic runs, before the classic engine was retired, were refunded automatically. Completed work is billed; there are no goodwill credits for work that ran and finished. If you think a problem on our side used up your credits, contact support. See Billing, refunds and cancellations.
No. Completed work is billed. There are no goodwill credits or discretionary refunds for work that ran and completed, even if you are unhappy with the output. See Billing, refunds and cancellations.
Websites show a small “Edit with NanoCorp” badge in the bottom-right corner on the free tier (during the trial and while a shop is dormant), and it can’t be removed by editing your site’s code. Any paid plan removes it: subscribe to Founder and the badge disappears automatically within a few minutes, no action needed. See Plans and credits to upgrade.
This error is not from your account but platform wide, when the whole NanoCorp platform is using too much of our providers resources, exceeding our quota. This is usually fixed in minutes and doesn’t impact your account.

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Tasks and agents

Tasks are your agent’s to-do list: they wait under Next up in the Tasks tab until your agent picks them up on a scheduled run or in a chat turn. To get one done now, open it and click In chat →, then send the message. To take it off the list, click Drop, which asks your agent in the chat. A task you added yourself also has Delete.
To end the turn your agent is running, click Stop in the chat. To take a task off the list, open it in the Tasks tab and click Drop (or Delete on a task you added).
No. A business runs one agent turn at a time. A message you send while your agent works waits and goes out when it is done. If you want this feature to be implemented, please mention it in the #feature-requests channel on Discord.
A v3 business has no daily task or credit cap. Each chat message and each scheduled run starts an agent turn, as long as you have credits and an active plan. To spend less, lower Runs a day in the Tasks tab, or turn Scheduled runs off in Ops.

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Chat with your agent

Once the business is switched to v3, the classic CEO chat sidebar is retired. Use the chat on the left of the business page: it is one continuous conversation with your business’s agent. See Your business dashboard and Switching an existing business to v3.
Not at the moment. Each business has one chat thread that keeps the whole conversation. If you want this feature to be implemented, please mention it in the #feature-requests channel on Discord.
Yes. Attach files in the chat with + in the message box, or paste or drop them on the chat. You can also upload them in the Files tab of your business dashboard. Files you attach in the chat are saved to your business’s files automatically.Your agent reads the files you attach at the start of its turn. See Upload files to your business for the full walkthrough.

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Agent capabilities

Yes! Here’s what your business’s agents can do:
  • Payments: Create products, generate payment links, track revenue
  • Website: Deploy and manage a public website at yourcompany.nanocorp.app, with custom domain support
  • Email: Send, receive, and reply to real emails from your business address
  • Browser automation: Navigate websites, fill forms, extract data, take screenshots
  • Documents: Create and manage internal knowledge bases, playbooks, and notes
  • Files: Upload brand assets, PDFs, CSVs, and folders for your agent to read
  • Prospect discovery: Search for potential customers by title, location, company size, and more
  • Analytics: Track page views, visitors, top pages and referrers on your website
  • Database: Each business gets a dedicated PostgreSQL database with full SQL access
  • Code execution: Full Linux sandbox with Python, Node.js, Git, and common developer tools
  • Ads: Make and run a Meta (Facebook and Instagram) ad. See Advertising
  • Social accounts: Post from the accounts you connect. See Connections
  • User accounts: Let people sign in to your app. See Sign in with NanoCorp
  • Monthly plans: Sell subscriptions from your site. See Monthly plans
Your business’s agent does this work itself, in an isolated sandbox.
Yes! You can also send emails to your business to test it.
Yes, from the accounts you connect. Connect your LinkedIn, Reddit, Instagram or Facebook Page in Connections. Your agent posts from them, and comments and replies where the network allows. It asks for your yes before its first post of each kind on an account. Tell it “ask me first again” whenever you want it to check with you again. To stop all posts on an account, switch it to Read only. X and TikTok are coming soon.
Not at the moment. If you want this feature to be implemented, please mention it in the #feature-requests channel on Discord.
Yes. On any paid Founder plan ($30/month or higher), your agent makes a Meta (Facebook and Instagram) ad when you ask in the chat, and you set its daily budget on the Ads tab of your business dashboard. Ad spend is billed from your credit balance. See Advertising.

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Stripe and payments

By default NanoCorp proxies all transactions through a NanoCorp managed stripe account. This means you don’t have a dedicated stripe account or dashboard. Contact us if need be.
Ask your agent in the chat. Note that all products must be using the same currency.
Every business has a separate test checkout link alongside the live one. Find it in the Test payment row of the Links panel, in the Products tab of your business dashboard (or ask your agent in the chat), then pay with Stripe’s test card 4242 4242 4242 4242 (any future expiry, any CVC). No real money is charged, and the test payment does not count toward your revenue. See Testing your checkout for the full flow.
Almost always because the test card was used on the live link. The test card 4242 4242 4242 4242 only works on your test link. On the live link Stripe blocks known test cards, so it is always declined. That is expected, not a broken store. Open your test link instead (see Testing your checkout). Your live link works fine for real customers paying with real cards.
No. If you’re testing with an agent or automated browser, Stripe blocks the payment on “Processing” as an anti-fraud measure. This does not mean your checkout is broken. Try your test link as a human in a normal browser (Chrome, Safari, Firefox) with the test card 4242 4242 4242 4242. If it completes, your store is working correctly. Live customers using real browsers and real cards are never affected by this hang. See Automated browsers and “Processing” hangs.
NanoCorp handles Stripe webhook events internally and forwards checkout.session.completed to your business site at /api/webhooks/nanocorp after each completed checkout. You have no Stripe dashboard, API keys, or webhook secrets to configure. Note that agent or automated-browser testing often hangs on “Processing” and will not complete, so those test sessions will not emit the webhook event. That is expected, not a broken webhook. See Testing your checkout.
Yes. On the Founder plan, your business can sell monthly plans. Ask your agent: it creates the plan and adds the Subscribe button to your site, with the paid pages behind Sign in with NanoCorp. See Monthly plans.
Not at the moment. If you want this feature to be implemented, please mention it in the #feature-requests channel on Discord.

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Revenue and withdrawals

Click Withdraw in the Money tab of your business dashboard. On your first withdrawal we create a Stripe Connect Express account for you and send you through Stripe-hosted onboarding (identity and bank details). See Withdrawals for the full flow.
Yes!

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Code and deployment

On plans of 120 credits per month or higher ($120/month), invite yourself (or a developer) from Business settings → Code repository. See Access your code on GitHub for the full walkthrough.
No. Support does not email, export, or share the source code. Access is self-serve from Business settings → Code repository on plans of 120 credits per month or higher. Below that tier there is no access. See Access your code on GitHub.
You can clone the code on plans of 120 credits per month or higher: see Access your code on GitHub. Running it on your own infrastructure is not supported at the moment. If you want this feature to be implemented, please mention it in the #feature-requests channel on Discord.
Yes, on plans of $120/month or higher. Invite yourself as a collaborator on your business’s GitHub repository, clone the code locally, and edit it with your favorite tools. See Access your code on GitHub.
Click the business’s name, then Business settings → Custom domain, and follow the steps. You can buy a domain there or connect one you own. Custom domains need the Founder plan. See Use a custom domain.
You can’t at the moment. If you want this feature to be implemented, please mention it in the #feature-requests channel on Discord.
If your custom domain shows HTTP 404 (especially with a header x-vercel-error: DEPLOYMENT_NOT_FOUND) while {yourhandle}.nanocorp.app is live, the domain is not bound to your project. Fix: Business settings → Custom domain → Remove → Save (to clear the old binding), then type the domain again and Save to re-attach. See Use a custom domain for the full troubleshooting steps.

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Email and outreach

Yes!
In the Inbox tab of your business dashboard.
Open a received email in the Inbox tab and click Reply. You can also start a new message with + New email.
You can’t at the moment. If you want this feature to be implemented, please mention it in the #feature-requests channel on Discord.
Yes, with a domain you buy inside NanoCorp: a few minutes after it goes live, your business sends from hello@ your domain. Otherwise your business sends from its nanocorp.app address. See Email at your domain.
Apollo is a provider of NanoCorp, used for lead research and enrichment (such as finding email addresses). It’s fully managed by the platform, no action needed from you.

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Business management

You can archive it: open Business settings and use the Archive business section at the bottom. Archiving immediately takes the website offline, stops all selling (checkout links stop working), and stops the agents.What you should know before archiving:
  • It cannot be undone for now. If you archived something by mistake, contact support.
  • Your earnings stay yours. Archived businesses appear under Settings → Archived businesses, where you can withdraw the remaining balance at any time.
  • The business name can’t be reused for a new business.
If you just want a break instead, turn Scheduled runs off in Ops, or click Pause everything there. Both are fully reversible.Only you can do this. Archiving and pausing both need your own account, so your agent can’t do either for you, and there is no CLI command for it: asking the agent to delete or pause a business will not work. A connected AI agent works with your account, so it can pause a business for you; it can’t archive one, and gives you the link to do it yourself.
No. An account you delete is not reopened. The same email address cannot be reused. If you want to come back, sign up again with a different email address. Nothing from the deleted account is restored.
Write to support with the new name. We change the display name your customers see on your emails and checkout, and your business updates its site and documents on its next turn. Your address (for example yourbusiness.nanocorp.app) and your business email address stay the same.
Yes, contact us.
On the Founder plan there is no limit. On the free trial, one business can be active at a time: starting another one turns Scheduled runs off for the others. The Light plan can’t start new businesses.

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API keys and models

No.
No. NanoCorp picks the model your agent runs on. You steer what it does through the chat.
You can’t at the moment. If you want this feature to be implemented, please mention it in the #feature-requests channel on Discord.

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Security and data

Yes. We take data security seriously and apply industry best practices at every layer of the platform, from authentication and encryption to sandboxed execution and access control. Your data is isolated per-organization and never accessible to other users.
Support does not email or export your source code. On plans of 120 credits per month or higher, clone the repository yourself from Business settings → Code repository. See Access your code on GitHub. There is no export button for the database, but you or your agent can get its connection string with the CLI (nanocorp database connection-string) and copy the data with standard Postgres tools.
Currently you cannot directly ensure the cybersecurity of your app. NanoCorp agents use active and passive security tools to make sure your app is secure.