An AI employee that works while you sleep | First Employee

Watch an employee build a company.

Yours is next — free, about three minutes. No waitlist, no demo call.

Build mine now<br>Read a night's work

Replayed from a real build log — nothing here is staged.<br>Every line is a receipt &rarr;

The next morning

Archival —<br>a demo company our employee runs, not a customer. Everything below is its real shift report.

Your company is live at https://archival.firstemployee.app

Shift #1 &middot; 2 minutes of work &middot; finished 02:26

02:24<br>Shipped: Archival — Keep Your Podcasts and Channels Safe

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02:25<br>Shipped: About Archival — Why We Keep What You Follow

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02:25<br>Shipped: Contact Archival — Questions About Your Archive

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02:25<br>Shipped: Archival Pricing — Plans to Keep Your Shows Safe

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02:26<br>One thing I need from you: Tonight I start with: Set up database schema for storing podcast episodes and YouTube videos with metadata fields for title, source URL, publication date, and archive timestamp. — right priority?

Yes, goI will leave a different instruction

In your own report that is one tap, and tonight's shift starts from your answer.

That is the whole morning: one page, one decision, and the ledger underneath it if you want to check the work.<br>How the ledger works &rarr;

Your first employee doesn't need a salary.

A live site in minutes. Receipts for every step.

Your money lands in your own Stripe, never ours.

How a shift works

1. You say what the business is

One sentence is enough. If you would rather we proposed something, we read up on you first and suggest three ideas tied to what you actually know — and show you exactly where we got them.

2. It works while you are gone

Your company gets a live address, its own inbox, and somewhere to put code the same night. Then the employee picks up the work: shipping pages, researching the market, drafting copy, replying to mail. Anything that spends money or goes public waits for you.

3. You read one page in the morning

What shipped, what it learned, and the single question it needs answered to keep moving. Answer in one tap and tonight's shift starts from there.

The longer version &rarr;

Every action leaves a receipt

The most common complaint about autonomous AI products is that you cannot tell whether the work happened. So each action writes an append-only row: the tool, what changed, the model, the tokens, the time it took, and a link to what it produced. Export it whenever you like.

time<br>action<br>result<br>model<br>took

02:00:04read_briefokopus-52.1s<br>02:00:52search_market11 resultsopus-541s<br>02:04:19write_docmarket-notes.mdopus-518s<br>02:11:38publish_page/waitlist &rarr; 200opus-59.4s<br>02:29:07send_emailheld for approval——<br>03:14:22write_reportshift #1opus-526s

Note row five: sending mail is held for approval — nothing goes out until you say so.

How the ledger works &rarr;

The whole thing, end to end

Four screens is the entire product. This is a demo company running on the live site — the same pages you get, not a mockup.

01<br>You say what it should work on

One sentence, or pick one of the examples. You choose here whether we manage the money side or you bring your own keys — that choice does not unwind later, so it is made before anything starts rather than buried in billing.

What should your employee work on?

A sentence is enough. It will name the company, put a site up tonight and start work.

e.g. A booking tool for physical-therapy clinics

A local directory<br>A niche newsletter<br>A small SaaS

Managed — recommended<br>Bring your own keys

02<br>It works the shift

At 2am your time, for about an hour. It ships pages, reads the analytics, drafts what needs drafting. Anything that would spend money, send mail or go public stops and waits for you instead.

Your companies

Using 1/1 companies &middot; 1/1 shifts today

Nocturne Archive<br>Needs you

I shipped the waitlist form and found three competitors worth watching.

Last shift #3 &middot; next 02:00

03<br>You read one page over coffee

What shipped, what it learned, and one question. Answer in a tap and tonight starts from your answer — or type an instruction and it does that instead.

Last night

I shipped the waitlist form and found three competitors worth watching.

ShippedWaitlist form and confirmation emaillive

Shifts1 of 1 today

One thing I need from you<br>Should the waitlist ask for a use-case, or just an email?<br>Just an emailAsk the use-case

04<br>And you can check every word of it

Every action it took, in order, with the model, the result and a link to what it produced. If the report says a page shipped, the ledger has the write and the status code. Export it any time.

Receipts

time<br>action<br>result<br>model

02:11:38publish_page/waitlist &rarr; 200opus-5<br>02:29:07send_emailheld for approval—<br>03:14:22write_reportShift #1opus-5

Note row five: sending mail is held for approval — nothing goes out until you say so.

Nocturne Archive is a demo company we run on the product, not a customer. The...