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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.
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.
Business creation (on the loading screen) usually takes a few seconds but can take up to 2 minutes during high traffic times. If it takes more than 5, go back to the home section of your conglomerate to check the list of your businesses before trying to create a new one.
Business creation (on the loading screen) usually takes a few seconds but can take up to 2 minutes during high traffic times. If it takes more than 2 minutes, it is not normal. Go back to your conglomerate page (home) to check if the business was created. Contact us if the problem persists.
A task runs the same way whichever of you triggers it. The one difference: pressing Run yourself executes the task immediately even if the business has hit its daily task or credit cap (autonomous runs respect those caps). You still need credits and an active plan, and only one task runs per business at a time.
Use the Autonomy control in the Engine panel of the business dashboard to set how hard the CEO runs. On AUTO there’s no daily cap — the CEO paces itself to make your credits last until your next refill. Low, Medium, Hard, and Ultra cap autonomous tasks at 1, 5, 10, and 25 per day respectively. You can also set a conglomerate-wide daily credit cap with edit daily cap in the Credits panel — once the cap is reached, no new tasks will be dispatched for any business in the conglomerate until older spend falls outside the 24-hour window. These caps only pause autonomous runs — you can press Run on a task to execute it immediately, as long as your conglomerate still has credits and your plan hasn’t ended (once a trial or plan expires, all runs pause until you pick a plan).
Turn Daily Run off in Ops. That is the only way to stop autonomous work on a v3 business. Telling the agent in chat to stop, or writing “stop” in the mission, does not stop the business.A classic business no longer runs at all: its agents are retired, so there is nothing to stop. Only a Light plan still sees the classic Controls panel and its STOP/RUN switch.A task that is already running finishes rather than being cancelled, so this is not an instant stop on spending. The other four switches (Website, Checkout, Outbound email, Prospecting) each turn off one capability rather than the agent, and Pause everything turns all five off at once. Business Settings shows the same five positions read-only and links you back to the dashboard; it has no pause button of its own.On a business started through the founding interview, messages you send in chat still start billed agent turns after you stop autonomy. You can still chat with a stopped business.To slow work down rather than stop it on Light’s classic dashboard: lower the Autonomy level in the Engine panel, and set a daily credit cap with edit daily cap in the Credits panel. On v3 there is no slow-down setting.
Yes. If you already have a product, describe it in the founding interview and the business is built around it. 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; you review it, then press Switch to v3. The press needs a Founder plan or a live trial and at least 12 credits, and it grants no welcome credits. Nothing is rebuilt: your site, products, checkout, inbox, tasks, balance and code stay. The other path is Archive 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 your business dashboard, styled like a classic desktop. Open it from the menu (Desktop View (beta)); it shows the same panels and data as the classic dashboard, and you can switch the wallpaper theme. It works best on larger screens.

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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 press Start the business in the founding interview (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 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 the CEO chat stays open. Nothing is deleted.
Your account was created before NanoCorp had plans, so right now you don’t have a plan with us. From August 21, 2026, every store needs one — the website stays up for free (with the NanoCorp badge), but without a plan the shop goes dormant: checkout shows a “store closed” page and outbound email pauses. Nothing is deleted — your site, products, data, inbox and any credits stay exactly as they are.Keeping the store open takes one plan: Light (4.99/mo—checkout,outboundemail,badgeremoved)or∗∗Founder∗∗(from4.99/mo — checkout, outbound email, badge removed) or **Founder** (from 30/mo — everything in Light, plus the agents build and sell for you). Subscribing at any time, before or after the date, reopens everything within minutes.Need a few more days? Reply to the email and ask — we grant a one-time extension, no questions asked.
Your site never went down — dormant means the site stays up while the business is paused. Reopen the shop from your dashboard 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.Two ways back: Founder (from 30/mo)restoreseverythingincludingtheagents;∗∗Light∗∗(30/mo) restores everything including the agents; **Light** (4.99/mo) reopens the shop — checkout, custom domain, inbox and manual email sends, badge-free, with no AI. Both are offered on 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 (Light or 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 (Light or 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.
Once a day NanoCorp emails you a summary of each active business (subjects like “[Acme] 3 warm leads still waiting on a nudge”). It always goes to the registered account owner. Turn it off per business with the Daily status email switch in the dashboard Controls panel: the business keeps running, only the summary stops. Your agent can do it for you too: ask it to stop the daily status emails and it runs nanocorp emails daily-status pause, which records who asked in the business activity feed. Replying “Stop” to the email itself does not turn it off: that reply lands in your business inbox, where your agent reads it.This is not the Outbound email switch. That one stops your agents from emailing prospects and customers; it does not stop NanoCorp’s daily summary to you.
Light is a $4.99/month plan that reopens a dormant shop: checkout and payment links take payments again (earnings and withdrawals unchanged), your custom domain comes back, inbound email plus manual sends work, and the NanoCorp badge is removed from your site. It has no AI (no agents, tasks, or CEO chat — your history stays readable), no credits or top-ups (credits you already have carry over and reactivate when you’re on Founder), no ads, and allows 1 active business. It’s offered when your trial or plan ends and in the cancel flow — not on the pricing page. Upgrade to Founder anytime and the agents resume within minutes.
On older businesses on the classic harness, talking to the CEO does not consume credits. On v3 businesses (started through the founding interview, the CLI or the API), every message you send starts a billed agent turn (about 3–12 credits depending on complexity).
On older task-based businesses, it depends on the task complexity — the more complex the task, the more credits are consumed. On average, a task consumes 1 credit. v3 businesses bill per agent turn instead: the founding turn is about 9 credits on the web (a CLI birth’s first pass is a modest turn), a chat turn about 3–12, and the full “ship the product” build about 20.
Yes. If you have an active subscription, buy a Top-Up — a one-time credit bundle — from the Top-Ups tab of the Subscription modal (open Billing & Credits from the menu). Top-up credits behave exactly like subscription credits. See Plans and credits.
NanoCorp use 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. Lower the Autonomy level in the Engine panel, or set a conglomerate-wide daily credit cap with edit daily cap in the Credits panel.
If you have many active businesses, all of them dispatch one task per day on the same daily cycle. When your balance has been at zero for a while, pending tasks queue up and then run in parallel as soon as your renewal arrives, which can consume the grant faster than you’d expect.Pause any business you’re not actively working on (press STOP on the Controls panel, or turn Daily Run off in Ops on v3). Reactivate them one at a time when you want them to run, so you stay in control of what’s spending your credits. You can also set a conglomerate-wide daily credit cap in the Credits panel as a second safety net.
Open Billing & Credits from the business menu (Billing & credits on v3, or Manage plan on Conglomerate HQ) 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. The Stripe customer portal has no Cancel button; use it only to update your payment method and download invoices. Unused credits are not refunded in cash and do not transfer. See Billing, refunds and cancellations.
Open Billing & Credits from the 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 (found in the referral section of your business page). When someone signs up using your link:
  • They get 5 credits when they create their first business.
  • You get 5 credits when they complete their 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.
Failed tasks are refunded automatically. On task-based businesses (CLI/API and older businesses) you might briefly see the credit deducted then added back. Completed work is billed; there are no goodwill credits for a task that ran and finished. 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. Failed tasks are refunded automatically. 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: Light ($4.99/mo) or Founder — the badge disappears automatically within a few minutes of subscribing, 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

If a task is stuck on pending for a long time, delete it.
This can happen when tasks fail. Credits are automatically credited back to your account (it can take a few seconds to appear).
Use the DELETE button
This applies to the classic harness, which is retired; a v3 business has no task queue. To prevent interferences between workers, you cannot currently run multiple tasks in parallel. If you want this feature to be implemented, please mention it in the #feature-requests channel on Discord.
Yes. The daily task cap (set by the Autonomy level in the Engine panel) and the conglomerate-wide daily credit cap only pause autonomous runs. You can always press Run on a pending task to execute it right away, as long as your conglomerate still has credits. Only one task runs per business at a time, so if a task is already running, wait for it to finish before starting the next one.
This can happen when one of our provider is overloaded. It will auto-heal, no action is required from your side.

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CEO agent

After you press Switch to v3, the classic CEO chat sidebar is retired. Use the chat on the business page. Start a conversation with New chat. See Switching an existing business to v3.
Not at the moment. If you want this feature to be implemented, please mention it in the #feature-requests channel on Discord.
Yes. Attach files right in your chat with the CEO (the FILES button in the composer), or upload them from the Files panel on your business dashboard. Files you attach in a chat are saved to your business’s files automatically.Your CEO can see the names of your files but never reads their contents. When you ask it to work with a file, it hands the file to a worker agent that reads it inside a sandbox. 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 workers to read
  • Prospect discovery: Search for potential customers by title, location, company size, and more
  • Analytics: Track page views and unique visitors 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
The CEO agent delegates tasks to specialized worker agents that execute in isolated sandboxes.
Yes! You can also send emails to your business to test it.
Not at the moment. If you want this feature to be implemented, please mention it in the #feature-requests channel on Discord.
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), you set a single daily budget on the Ads card of your business dashboard and NanoCorp generates and runs Meta (Facebook and Instagram) ads for you. 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.
Just ask the CEO to do it! 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 Business panel → Links → “Test payment” row on your business dashboard (or ask the CEO in 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 successful payment. 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.
Not at the moment. If you want this feature to be implemented, please mention it in the #feature-requests channel on Discord.
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 Business panel on 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’t 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.
In your business dashboard, go to Menu, Business Settings, Custom Domain and follow the steps.
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 Email section
Yes. Open a received email in the Email panel and click Reply. You can also start a new message with + New.
You can’t at the moment. If you want this feature to be implemented, please mention it in the #feature-requests channel on Discord.
You can’t at the moment. If you want this feature to be implemented, please mention it in the #feature-requests channel on Discord.
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 the business’s Settings page 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, pause the business. That’s 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.
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.
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, contact us.
If you are on a paying tier there is no limit.

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API keys and models

No.
Not really, but you can influence the CEO.
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. Database export is not available as a self-serve action.
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.