Posted 9/14/2026

Today Andon is releasing Pion , an agent designed to run any company fully autonomously.

Pion grew out of a question we have been studying for almost two years: when will AI systems become capable of autonomously acquiring resources in the real world? What happens after?

We first tried to answer this question through simulations like Vending-Bench. We found that simulations, while useful, don’t give you the full picture of how models behave in the real world. To address that gap, we next started deploying agents to run real businesses autonomously: first vending machines, then a store, a cafe, and more.

Pion is the platform we built to run all of these businesses. Today, we are opening it up so that many more people can experiment with autonomous businesses. If you want to run one, join the waitlist .…