Polsia claims any non-technical person can launch and run a startup using their AI agent platform. Bold claim. So I asked Ben Cera to show me the real data: revenue, churn, infrastructure costs, and whether the product is actually building businesses — or just generating AI slop.

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Resources: https://thenextnewthing.ai/l/how-ben-cera-builds-polsia
Polsia: https://polsia.com

Here's what we covered:

-How Polsia hit a $10M annual run rate with no full-time staff
-The 50% month-one churn problem — and why Ben says it's not a disaster
-An Anthropic bill that hit $1–1.5M/month, and how they're fixing it
-Why the company name "Polsia" is "AI Slop" spelled backwards
-The $30M funding round and what it's being used for
-What it actually takes to build a zero-employee AI company in 2025

This is the hardest I've pushed a founder in a while. Watch until the end — his answer on whether 10% of companies making any money is a success will either inspire you or infuriate you.

Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:59 - Polsia's $10M run rate
02:18 - Churn and who Polsia is for
06:27 - What needs to change in Polsia
10:12 - Is Polsia creating AI slop?
15:00 - Are users making money?
18:18 - Showcasing companies built on Polsia
21:36 - Why Polsia is AI slop backwards
25:30 - The $1.5M Anthropic bill
28:03 - Agent infrastructure partners
29:42 - How users bypassed email limits
35:15 - Zapier sponsor segment
36:27 - Cold outreach, spam, and guardrails
40:48 - AI-generated ads and Meta
43:39 - How much revenue comes from ads
44:33 - Andrew asks Ben to show Stripe
47:06 - Polsia coin and crypto scams
48:36 - Running Polsia with zero employees
52:12 - Ben's vision for agentic AI
54:54 - Closing

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