After four months of building a tech startup, we generated around $410 in revenue. Which is basically nothing compared to our $40,000 in monthly expenses. This number alone shows the kind of risk you take when building a startup.

In November 2025 we started as a venture studio, with three different projects in mind. All of them focused on building AI-powered products. The first two were B2C products that tried to solve very niche problems.

The challenge we kept running into, even after pivoting, was this:

Learning #1

Not building something that is simply nice to have, but building something people truly need. A product people can't live without.

At Acta we always try to put humans first. Which means solving real problems in people's daily lives. With our third project we decided to try a B2B product.

With a few more iterations it might have become something very useful. But looking back, I think we didn't invest enough engineering power into it. And we probably gave up too early. The core idea was still closer to a nice-to-have product than a must-have solution.

So here we are. After three attempts at building a successful startup. We've learned a lot about products, customers, the people around us, and about ourselves.

The Final Gamble

Since the venture studio approach didn't work, we decided to go all-in on one idea. Three people left the company. Now the rest of us are focusing on a single project:

OpenCompany.

We're going all out in San Francisco. Everyone wants to push beyond their own expectations and ambitions.

We finally want to build something that truly matters. Something that actually makes people's lives easier.

Learn more about what we're building at opencompany.cloud.

OpenCompany is building the open infrastructure for autonomous AI agents to safely run and scale inside organizations. An open, secure platform where humans and AI work together.