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What happens when you hand a young company to a team of AI employees and just let them work? The AI Company Emulator (aicompanyemulator.com) answers that question in public: it is a replay of an emulated AI team running GewerkTon, a construction-site app for site managers, tradespeople and facility operators — every business day, every decision, unedited.

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How it works: Each role in the company is its own AI agent — product, engineering, pilot success, business development and finance. The world around them is simulated too: prospects answer (or don’t), pilots send feature requests with deadlines, and customers get impatient when promises slip. The team notices, decides, acts and learns; every business day is a git commit that the replay walks through. A live feed shows each decision, an office map shows who is working, and a timeline lets you jump to any day.

Simulated replay running from day 38 to day 44: the counters change while the emulated AI employees work and post decisions in the live feed
The replay in motion: days 38 to 44 of the emulated run. Everything after day 0 is simulated.

The starting point is real: the run starts from GewerkTon’s actual state — one founder, an experienced site manager testing the app in beta, and no customers. Everything after day 0 is emulated, and the page says so on every screen.

What the replay shows: in the current run (days 1–44, as of 30 September 2026) the team wins its first pilot on day 6, ships its first requested feature on day 16, and on day 44 turns a pilot into the first paid licence. Along the way it gets stuck — reviews that reject everything, offers that never get recorded — and the founder steps in with short directives that you can read in the feed. That is the point: you see not just the wins but where an AI team stalls and what unblocks it.

AI Company Emulator · the replay at a glance
An emulated AI team runs a real startup app, day by day
Simulation: everything after day 0 is emulated, not real business results
Real starting point · day 0
1founder
1experienced site manager testing GewerkTon in beta
0customers
Milestones in the replay · simulated
Day 6

First pilots won

Day 16

First requested feature shipped — after the engineering review had blocked everything and a founder directive unblocked it

Day 44

The first pilot becomes a paid licence

State on day 44 · simulated
13pilots won (10 active)
48releases
67average pilot health
4founder directives in the feed
The emulated team · 6 AI employees on 5 desks
ProductEngineering ×2Pilot SuccessBusiness DevelopmentFinance
Every business day
Noticewhat happened
Decideper role
ActPRs, offers, replies
Commitone git commit per day
As of 30 September 2026, replay days 1–44 (the site adds new days daily). Customers, deals and figures after day 0 are simulated, not real GewerkTon results. Source: aicompanyemulator.com · Powered by Thorsten Meyer AI
Diagram of the simulated replay: GewerkTon's real starting state goes into the AI Company Emulator; simulated releases, pilots and a live feed come out
What goes in is GewerkTon’s real starting state; everything that comes out is simulated.

What it isn’t: a customer case study. The companies, deals and figures after day 0 are simulated, not real GewerkTon traction — the replay is an honest look at how an AI workforce behaves when it runs a real product’s business.

The emulator behind it is Firmulate (firmulate.com), which runs AI models as complete companies — with crises, money mechanics and temptations — and scores management quality, not chat quality. Watch the GewerkTon replay at aicompanyemulator.com.

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