Empyre vs Naïve

There is no config file

Naïve's own headline is “One config file.” Empyre's input is a sentence about the business. If you wanted to author agent topology you are not the person this comparison is for — and if you did not, one config file is one too many.

The agents already exist and already have jobs

Eight of them, permanently, with defined roles and cadences — CEO daily, CTO every five hours, CMO twice a day, QA on exactly two engineering cycles, and three more on call. You are not composing a roster; you are reviewing its output.

The company is the deliverable, not the substrate

Repository, deployment, live address, working end-user accounts, payments, legal pages, an inbox, analytics and discovery — produced, not provisioned for you to fill in.

Spend is gated before the work, not capped after it

The CFO agent approves cost BEFORE the call happens, with a monthly ceiling and a hard stop, and every recurring cost gets an approval decision recorded with the dollar amount and a rollback plan. A spend cap tells you what has already been spent.

Being found is part of the build

Naïve does not present discovery as part of the product. Every Empyre business ships the SEO and answer-engine surface before the first agent cycle, and the agents audit and repair the live site afterwards.

People, with roles

Invite by email as a Co-Founder, a Developer or a Viewer on any paid plan. Ownership cannot be transferred through it, and credits are always charged to the creator rather than to whoever pressed the button.

An editor over the real repository

empyre.dev/code/<company> opens the actual repository in the browser with no clone and no toolchain, readable on every plan, and a commit from it goes through the same guards an agent's commit does.

The work continues after launch

Every other tool on this list finishes when the code is generated. Empyre's agents keep running on a schedule: the Tester finds regressions, the CTO fixes and redeploys them, the CMO writes launch content, the CFO refuses spend that breaks the budget.

It is a company, not a codebase

A launch produces a repository, a deployment, a live address, working end-user accounts, a legal surface and a budget — the things a product needs to actually take money, not just the application.

Cost is bounded by design

Each plan gates agent spend with a monthly ceiling and a hard stop. An agent cannot quietly run up a bill, because the CFO gates spend before the work happens.

You stay the owner

The repository is yours, the deployment is yours, and your customers pay into your own Stripe account directly — whether you connect it through Empyre or bring your own key. Empyre takes no cut of your revenue and never holds it.

You can run it from your AI assistant, with your own UI

Each product has its own Model Context Protocol endpoint, so the whole platform is operable from Claude, Cursor, VS Code or any MCP client — reading the dashboard, launching a company, directing the CEO, asking Empyre itself, pausing the agents and deploying the site. The connector renders Empyre's real interface inside the conversation as an MCP App rather than describing it in text, and each product authorizes separately so a connector for one grants nothing in another.

Accounts work without you wiring anything

Generated products ship with working sign-up and sign-in from the first deploy. There is no auth provider to register for and no API key to paste.

Being findable is part of the build

A product nobody can find is not a business. The agents audit your deployed site the way a search engine and an answer engine actually read it — title and meta, canonical correctness, sitemap and robots.txt agreeing with each other, whether the page has any content without JavaScript, and which AI crawlers your robots.txt admits — and fix what they find. Almost every other builder ships the code and leaves discovery to you.

Marketing runs itself, on a cadence the platform holds it to

The CMO researches topics, writes and publishes articles to the product's own server-rendered blog, decides the positioning, researches competitors, and runs Google Ads on Growth and above. Nobody asks it to. The daily article is not left to the agent to remember: the platform reads the publication dates itself and hands the cycle a decided action when the day's article is still owed, because "publish one a day" is a fact about history and a single agent cycle has none.

SEO and GEO are part of the product, not a task list

Every generated business ships server-rendered content, schema.org JSON-LD, a sitemap of real URLs, an AI-crawler-aware robots.txt, llms.txt and RSS — before the first agent cycle. Then the agents keep auditing the live site for titles, meta descriptions, canonicals, crawler access, structured data and no-JavaScript readability, and fix what they find. GEO — being the answer an AI assistant gives — is treated as a first-class channel, not an afterthought.

The money is managed

The CFO gates spend before it happens rather than reporting it afterwards: an explicit monthly ceiling, a hard stop, and an approval decision on every recurring cost with the dollar amount and a rollback plan recorded. Revenue settles directly into the founder's own Stripe balance — Empyre never takes a cut, never holds the money, and is never the merchant of record.

Customers get answered

A support inbox worked by the CSO, with real complaints escalated to the engineering agent as defects rather than closed as tickets.

The legal surface stays covered

Terms of service, privacy policy, contract review and e-signature — on every plan, including the free one.

It keeps itself alive

The site is probed and redeployed if it stops serving, health regressions are diagnosed and rolled back to the last known-good snapshot, security and compliance are re-audited on every cycle, and the QA agent smoke-tests the real URL after every deploy.

That is the whole point

You describe a business once. Everything after that — shipping, marketing, discovery, support, legal, books, uptime — is somebody's job, and that somebody is an agent. As long as the subscription is running, there is nothing you have to come back and do.

Agent-native financial controls

Spend-capped virtual cards, approval thresholds and mid-flight revocation are a real and well-designed primitive.

Empyre: Empyre does not issue cards to agents you build, because Empyre's agents do not need a card: every cost they can incur runs through one budget the CFO gates before the work, with a hard stop and a per-call ceiling. A card is a control you have to configure; a budget the platform enforces is one you cannot forget.

Infrastructure breadth per agent

Databases, auth, storage, realtime, edge functions and model routing with fallback, provisioned per agent.

Empyre: Empyre provisions what the product actually needs and nothing else — a pooled Postgres only when the CTO decides the product genuinely stores something, because a seat for a company that never writes a row is money spent on nothing. Breadth you configure is a bill; opinionated defaults are what make unattended automation work.

Agent identity as a real product

KYC/KYB, a US LLC with an EIN, and email, phone and domain provisioning for the agent itself.

Empyre: Empyre's agents act as YOUR company rather than as legal entities of their own — deliberately, because an agent with its own EIN is a liability surface you now own without having asked for one. Your company does get its own domain and its own real inbox on day one, on every plan.

Built for engineers who want the controls

Infrastructure-as-code, a CLI and an SDK put you in charge of the topology.

Empyre: Empyre has a CLI too (npx empyre launch), and an MCP endpoint so the whole platform runs from Claude, Cursor or VS Code. What it does not have is a topology to be in charge of, which is the point rather than a gap.

The editor is real; the terminal is not

Empyre HAS an in-browser IDE — empyre.dev/code/<company>, a working editor over the real repository with a file tree, search, tabs, branches, commit history and a diff-aware unsaved indicator. Reading is on every plan. What it deliberately does not give you is a shell: no package manager, no debugger, no arbitrary process. Editing and committing go through the same boundary an agent's commit does, which is what lets the platform keep a generated app buildable — and a terminal would be a way around every one of those guards. For a shell, clone the repository; it is an ordinary one and it is yours.

The language is your repository's, not ours

Point Empyre at an existing repository and the agents continue it in whatever it is already written in — Python, Ruby, PHP, Go, Rust, Node — on infrastructure chosen to suit that stack, including real managed servers for anything a serverless host cannot run. What Empyre is not is a place to shop for a framework before a line exists: it is an operator, not a scaffolding menu, and the eight agents are the product rather than the starter template.

The web, not the App Store

Empyre does not build native mobile apps and is not going to. Everything that makes unattended operation work — a real HTTPS address in thirty minutes, a redeploy the same hour as the commit, a smoke test of the live URL, a real 404, a page a crawler can read — belongs to the web. If the deliverable has to be in a store, that is a different product.

A founding team, not an engineering org

Empyre takes a team now: invite people by email as a Co-Founder, a Developer or a Viewer, each with their own sign-in and their own level of access, on any paid plan. What it is still not is a replacement for an engineering organisation — if you have a staffed team, a release process and a CI pipeline, an agent workforce duplicates people you already employ, and you will get more out of Cursor pointed at the repository Empyre creates. The line is size and shape, not headcount of one: Empyre is for the founding team, up to the point where the process becomes the product.