Digital Co-Founders: Transforming Imagination into Viable Solo Business via Agentic AI
Farhad Rezazadeh, Pegah Bonehgazy

TL;DR
This paper presents a framework for solo entrepreneurs to leverage AI agents as digital co-founders, transforming creative ideas into scalable businesses through stages of imagination, testing, and scaling.
Contribution
It introduces a novel AI-enabled framework specifically designed for solopreneurship, integrating AI agents into each key stage of business development.
Findings
AI agents assist in market scanning and idea refinement.
Automated prototyping and customer interaction improve efficiency.
Framework supports scalable and autonomous business processes.
Abstract
This paper investigates how individual entrepreneurs can turn creative ideas into successful solo businesses in an era increasingly shaped by Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents. It highlights the key steps that connect personal vision, structured experimentation, and lasting value creation, and shows how AI agents can act as digital co-founders throughout this journey. Building on research in entrepreneurship, creativity, and innovation, we present a framework with three key stages: (1) Imagination shaping, where vague goals become clear value propositions, supported by AI agents that help with market scanning, idea refinement, and rapid concept generation; (2) Reality testing, where these ideas are tested through low-cost experiments, structured feedback loops, and efficient execution, with AI agents automating tasks such as prototyping, content creation, customer interaction, and…
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Taxonomy
TopicsOpen Source Software Innovations · AI in Service Interactions · Digital Innovation in Industries
