Michii vs Polsia: two ways to let AI run your company
If you've been looking at autonomous AI companies, you've probably found both Polsia and Michii, noticed they sound almost identical, and wondered what the actual difference is. Fair question. Both give an AI team a business idea, let it build and market the product on a nightly loop, and send you a morning report. The one-line pitch is nearly the same.
So let me skip the part where we pretend they're worlds apart, give Polsia real credit, and then be specific about the three places the two genuinely diverge.
Credit where it's due
Polsia proved the model works. By its own account it launched in late 2025 and crossed $1M ARR roughly a month later, reportedly running thousands of companies at once - each one getting an AI agent that wakes up at night, evaluates the company, decides what to do, executes, and emails the founder a summary. That's a real validation of the core bet Michii shares: that an autonomous team running every day is a better unit than a single human doing the same list by hand.
If you've decided you want AI to run a business for you, you're choosing between two products built on the same conviction. The differences are in the design choices around it.
1. Who it's built for
Polsia leans hard into full autonomy. By its own description, its framing extends past building and marketing into founder-replacing territory - an "AI CEO," managing the inbox, even handling investor conversations. The vision is a company that runs with as little human in the loop as possible.
Michii is built for a specific person: the low-technical founder - a designer, PM, marketer, or domain expert who understands products but doesn't write code and has never opened a terminal. The goal isn't to remove you from your company. It's to remove the grind from your company while keeping you firmly in the chair. The daily report ends with one small "here's what needs you" - usually about ten minutes, in plain language - not "we negotiated your term sheet while you slept." Where the human belongs is a product decision, and we drew that line deliberately.
2. How much you actually see
A nightly summary email is a fine output, but it's also a black box: you find out what happened after it happened.
Michii is built to be watchable. There's a Commander chat where you can talk to the team directly, see each agent's work as it runs, and review what it produced. Generated work - marketing drafts, outreach, product changes - lands as artifacts you can approve, save, or discard rather than things that just go live. You're not trusting a summary of the night; you can see the night. For a non-technical owner putting their name on a product, that visibility is the difference between "an AI is doing things to my business" and "my team is doing things for my business, and I can check."
3. Who keeps the upside
This is the one worth reading the fine print on, because the two models are structurally different.
Polsia's published pricing, as of this writing, is a low monthly fee - around $49/mo for a nightly task plus some on-demand credits - but the real model is a cut of your success: a reported ~20% of revenue collected through its Stripe and a reported ~20% of ad spend it manages. The logic is clean and honest - they only win when you win. The trade, reportedly, is that payments run through their platform and you hand over a slice of your upside, indefinitely.
Michii's bet is different. The business is yours. You stay the owner, the decision-maker, and the one who keeps what it earns. While we're in beta it's free to try, and the company you build with it is yours to keep - not a revenue stream we're underwriting in exchange for a percentage.
Neither model is "right." A revenue share aligns incentives beautifully and asks for nothing up front; full ownership keeps your economics simple and your upside whole. Which one fits depends on how you feel about giving away a cut of every dollar your business ever makes.
The honest summary
If you want the most hands-off autonomy you can get, are comfortable letting AI reach into investor and inbox territory, and don't mind sharing revenue and routing payments through the platform - Polsia's model is coherent and clearly working for a lot of people.
If you're a product person who wants a team that does the daily grind for you while you stay the owner who decides, who can see the work as it happens, and who keeps full ownership of what gets built - that's the seat Michii was designed for.
Same idea, slept on differently. Pick the one whose defaults match how you actually want to run your company.
Side by side: the full Polsia alternatives comparison lays this out capability by capability, along with the other autonomous AI companies worth looking at.