Polsia, a startup promising an autonomous AI co‑founder, closed a $30 million round on the claim it runs “120,000+ companies” with $10 million ARR. Its public API lists 118,683 created firms, of which only 7,437 remain active. A technical audit shows 93.7 % dead, and Polsia’s code embeds a god‑mode kill‑switch that can halt, delete or impersonate any firm, leaving owners without control of the off‑switch.

The company’s dashboard reports a headline ARR of $9.7 million, derived by annualising a single month’s cash flow that includes roughly 20 % ad‑spend pass‑through. Subscriptions contribute $4.6 million, but churn averages 48 % per month, leaving only 0.04 % of customers after twelve months – effectively $0 true recurring revenue.

Polsia’s public source map reveals 1,355 front‑end modules, including an admin console with per‑user logins and a god‑mode override that can shut down any “autonomous” company. The AI layer simply calls Claude on AWS Bedrock, a rentable model, so the purported moat consists of publicly available code. The audit shows investors funded a façade rather than a sustainable AI‑driven business.

Developers considering Polsia should treat it as a hosted UI atop a commodity model rather than a true autonomous platform.