The new AI-powered platform helps founders architect, code, and deploy real products from day one, accelerating fundraising and removing technical barriers.
FORT WORTH, Texas, US, November: PoobahAI, the AI-powered no-code platform merging artificial intelligence with blockchain infrastructure, today announced the launch of Virtual Cofounder, an intelligent engineering system that designs, builds, and deploys investor-grade software from day one.
Powered by PoobahAI’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server, founders interact with the Virtual Cofounder through simple web-based prompts, no app builder is required. The system can architect entire products, write and iterate production code, deploy infrastructure, and generate clean documentation. Crucially, it also delivers what most AI agents can’t: live onchain transactions and full bidirectional interaction with blockchain networks, enabling real MVPs, functional prototypes, and verifiable deployments from day one.
In early-stage startups, the absence of a technical co-founder often leaves a significant technical gap. Investors often hesitate to back ideas without proven technical execution, favoring teams with “ex-Coinbase” or “ex-OpenAI” credentials. PoobahAI’s Virtual Cofounder eliminates that gap by giving founders an always-on, production-ready engineering partner that signals both capability and traction from the start.
“Stop pitching what you’ll build with the right hire,” said Dana Love, PhD, President and Chairman of PoobahAI. “Start showing what you’ve already built, with institutional-grade engineering. The Virtual Cofounder doesn’t just simulate a developer; it demonstrates execution, credibility, and momentum in real time.”
For example, a founder building a decentralised rewards app could describe their idea, and the Virtual Cofounder would design the architecture, generate APIs, deploy smart contracts, and spin up a working frontend, all within a single workflow. By combining engineering precision with automated deployment, it transforms concept-stage ideas into tangible products in days rather than months.
Many founders today delay or abandon ideas simply because building in Web3 feels too complex, even for people with a computer science background. One early tester had put off creating an NFT ticketing app for months because the technical lift felt overwhelming. With Virtual Cofounder, he described the concept once, and the system generated the architecture, produced the APIs, deployed the smart contracts, and spun up a working frontend, all in a single workflow. What once felt daunting became a functioning product in a summer. Virtual Cofounder turns the kinds of ideas that usually stay on a whiteboard into deployed software in days rather than months.
The result is a new fundraising dynamic. Instead of asking investors to believe in a hypothetical team, founders can now present a functional product and ask them to fund growth, not validation.
The advantages are immediate and measurable. Founders can now build, iterate, and deploy MVPs in weeks instead of months, compressing idea-to-traction timelines from 12-18 months to just 3-6. The Virtual Cofounder removes friction entirely: no equity negotiations, hiring delays, or risk of a key engineer leaving mid-build. It produces investor-grade outputs from the start, generating clean, scalable codebases and documentation that demonstrate technical readiness and institutional credibility. Built atop PoobahAI’s MCP Server, it integrates seamlessly with on-chain tools, APIs, and production environments, ensuring every build is deployable, verifiable, and growth-ready.
“With Virtual Cofounder, founders move past the talent bottleneck,” said Leif Sørensen, CTO of PoobahAI. “They can execute with the same technical sophistication as a funded engineering team, and prove it to investors on day one.”
The Virtual Cofounder marks a major leap forward in PoobahAI’s mission to democratise startup creation, bringing together AI, automation, and blockchain to give every founder instant access to enterprise-grade engineering power. Virtual Cofounder enters private beta this month with a select group of founders from PoobahAI’s 4,000-person waitlist, ahead of a broader public launch in Q1 2026. PoobahAI is beginning early briefings with press now, including live demos of the Virtual Cofounder and conversations with PoobahAI President Dana Love, PhD.
About PoobahAI
PoobahAI is an AI-powered no-code platform democratizing Web3 development, empowering entrepreneurs, innovators, and developers to turn ideas into blockchains, tokens, and MVPs in weeks, not months. Founded in July 2025 by AI and Web3 experts Dana Love, PhD, Brendan Cooper, Mant Hawkins, and Leif Sørensen, PoobahAI fuses cutting-edge AI with blockchain to cut development time by 60% and costs by 90%. At launch, PoobahAI offers a multi-chain CLI, a drag-and-drop App Builder powered by more than three dozen audited Digital Objects, and nearly a dozen showcase applications spanning real-world asset tokenization, secure cross-chain DeFi swaps without bridges, and a robust NFT auction platform.
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