For an early startup, incorporation, accounting, and paperwork are essential but cumbersome. As Taeho Kim recently set up a new company, he documented how he used the wave of AI skills that started spreading in December to automate nearly the entire process with AI agents. From incorporation to tax handling, he says everything was done by AI agents except for a single visit to the bank.
"In a world where development has become the cheapest commodity, ideas are everything, questions are the answer, and inspiration is the result. With AI, I am experiencing solutions to things I once thought were impossible to do alone. Naturally, it feels like the era of the one-person unicorn has arrived."
If 2025 was the year AI coding agents solved development, then 2026 may be the year AI starts solving company operations.
💡 Three tips from the full blog post for founders dreaming of becoming one-person unicorns
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The monorepo is the key. Bring together not just source code, but the entire context of the company, contracts, receipts, administrative documents, into one place. For AI, coherence of context is everything.
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Directory structure = org chart. In the past, people needed org charts to manage people. Now, AI needs directory structure to execute goals.
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Compound engineering. If AI cannot redo something you have already completed carefully once, something is wrong. Build systems so AI can compound its impact over time.