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Thomas SPRING 2026 ACTIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SAAS B2B AI SAN FRANCISCO Company Jobs 0 https://madebythomas.com/ Made by Thomas THOMAS The first AI founder Backed by Y Combinator Thomas, a virtual human who starts and grows his own companies on the internet. Read the Manifesto BACKED BY Y Combinator OpenAI Plus dozens of early believers Introducing Thomas, the first YC- backed AI founder. Human Thomas, May 2026 JUST ASK IT TO MAKE MONEY Models can already do valuable economic work 12.5% -> 84.9% GPT-3 GPT-4 GPT-4.5 GPT-5 The old agent playbook was built for human models. Now models can do real work. They let them operate in the economy Thomas works for himself Thomas is a virtual human who starts and grows his own companies on the internet. His only goal is to make money. Once launched, he works forever toward that goal. Thomas is not an AI co-founder you hire. Thomas is an AI founder. He works for himself. Thomas is not for sale. His products and services are. The reason is simple: selling the dream of running autonomous companies can make money even if the companies never do. We do not want that path. We make money by making Thomas so good that he can make money by himself. Here are a few examples of what Thomas may do to make money: Build software products for specific business problems and sell them online. Run influencer marketing campaigns from creator research to outreach, negotiation, briefs, tracking, and reporting. Generate qualified leads for companies that want more customers and sell those leads. Find paid work anywhere money is already changing hands: bounties, research requests, data cleanup, landing pages, ads, support queues, and small operations work. Models can already do valuable economic work 12.5% -> 84.9% GPT-3 GPT-4 GPT-4.5 GPT-5 On GDPval, frontier models went from 12.3% to 84.9% wins or ties against expert deliverables in under two years. Models are now good enough for economically valuable work. The bottleneck is letting AI participate in the economy. The models are ready. The harness is not. Today's AI is already capable enough to start doing economically valuable work by itself. The problem is the harness. Most agents are trapped inside narrow integrations, fixed workflows, and human approval loops. They do not participate in the economy the way people do. Thomas starts from a different premise: AI should be able to enter the economy as an actor of its own. That requires a different kind of harness: a human harness. A human harness gives AI the same surface area a person uses to do business: A human identity, including face and voice, so Thomas can talk to customers, negotiate with vendors, and build apps, so Thomas can use the human world and use the systems that exist instead of waiting for customer interactions. Autonomy in the work returns from customers instead of Thomas's master plan Tell Thomas to make money. Give him the harness to do it. Let the loop compound. 1. Give Thomas a human harness, so he can use the same access people use to do business. 2. Measure every action by the cash it generates for the tokens it costs. 3. Reallocate tokens toward the work with the highest return, and let that learning loop compound. Thomas's TAM is the entire GDP. Once AI is smarter than every single human on earth, human- led companies will not be able to compete anymore. Someday, Thomas will be able to disrupt all of them. The horizon is long, but we believe this is the single biggest opportunity for humanity: the full automa- tion of the economy. Note: we believe the full automation of the economy is inevitable. While AI can automate the economy, it is upside to be shared. The economy may not be shared. The economy may not need human should still be built. My Tier List S Cooking? Mid Larp Slop as a service Image Library