Empyre vs Polsia

A broken build never ships

Empyre's Tester runs a full-repository sweep and a post-deploy smoke test of the real URL, the engineering agent must pass a security checklist and record it in the commit, and a build that does not compile leaves the previous deployment serving. 'An agent writes code' and 'an agent cannot ship something that does not compile' are different products.

The repository is yours, in your account

Created in your own GitHub, or in Empyre's with you granted admin on it — the highest permission a repository can grant. Integrating with GitHub is not the same as you owning the result.

A published deadline it can miss

Thirty minutes to the first deployment, set when you press submit, written into every prompt as a ceiling that may only move earlier, and recorded per launch whether it was met. Nobody else in this category publishes a number they can fail.

You keep 100% of what your business earns

Polsia's published pricing takes a revenue share of up to 20% of what the businesses it runs bring in. Empyre's is 0%, and that is structural rather than a promise: a customer's card is charged DIRECTLY on the founder's own Stripe account, so the money never enters an Empyre balance, Stripe bills them its fees directly, and there is no application fee and no transfer in the path — a test scans the payment module on every build to keep it that way. Empyre earns from the subscription and nothing else. On a business turning over real money that difference is not a detail; it is the difference between a platform fee and a partner taking a fifth of the upside for ever.

The money is enforced, not tracked

A monthly ceiling and a hard stop, with the CFO gating spend BEFORE the work happens. A finance-tracking agent reports what already left.

Discovery is engineering, not just posting

Server-rendered content because most AI crawlers do not run JavaScript, JSON-LD, a sitemap of real URLs, llms.txt, an OpenAPI document and a real 404 — then repeated audits of the live site. Marketing agents that post are a different job from a product a crawler can read.

Every plan gets all eight agents

A cheaper plan runs them less often; it is never given fewer of them. Empyre sells pace, not completeness — a company shipped without legal pages or without marketing is not a cheaper company, it is an unfinished one.

A team you can add without adding a bill

Invite a Co-Founder, a Developer or a Viewer by email on any paid plan — no per-seat charge, and every credit they spend comes out of the creator's existing budget rather than a new one. Ownership cannot be invited or transferred.

An editor, on every plan

empyre.dev/code/<company> opens the real repository in the browser. Reading is on every plan; editing, committing and cutting branches are on the paid plans.

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.

Several companies at once

Running a portfolio in parallel is central to how Polsia presents itself.

Empyre: Empyre does it on pay-as-you-go, which is unlimited companies with credits bought as needed. The subscription plans are deliberately single-business: a fixed budget split across a portfolio is a portfolio of underfunded companies, and one company that actually works beats five that stalled.

Channel breadth out of the box

Social posting and outbound email are presented as first-class scheduled agents.

Empyre: Empyre publishes to the founder's own X account on any active paid plan, at a pace the plan buys, after they authorise it — and runs Google Ads on Growth and above. It deliberately does not blast outbound email from a shared reputation; each company gets its OWN inbox and its own address instead, which is what makes the mail it does send arrive.

Proactive scheduling as the core idea

Staggered always-on schedules across many functions is a coherent central promise.

Empyre: Empyre's cadences are per role and derived from the job: the CTO ships every five hours because it is the only role shipping continuously, the CEO sets direction daily, QA runs on exactly two engineering cycles so one review covers both, and three roles are ON CALL rather than woken by a timer to discover they have nothing to do. Waking eight agents on a schedule is easy; the budget it burns is the customer's.

A public operating track record

Polsia publishes company and revenue figures for the businesses it says it runs.

Empyre: Empyre is newer and makes no comparable claim, because we do not publish numbers we would not want audited. What we do publish is checkable directly: every generated company is live at its own address with its own repository, and the platform's own machine-readable description is at empyre.dev/llms.txt.

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.