Sistava vs Tycoon AI
AI Workforces
Sistava vs Tycoon AI
Tycoon AI is the commercial product built from founder Xiaoyin Qu's viral 2025 experiment at HeyBoss, where she stepped aside as CEO and let an AI agent run the company. You brief a manager agent, Tycoon Agent, with a goal, and it assigns work to named specialists like Darren for software delivery, Jordan for campaigns, and Sage for SEO, tracking progress and billing everything through one usage-based wallet. Sistava takes a different shape: employees you hire individually, each with a role, memory, and employment lifecycle, working inside the tools your business already runs in rather than a new stack Tycoon provisions and operates for you.
Profile
- Pricing
- Free to start, no card required. Usage-based wallet from $50/mo covering tokens, machine-hours, and infrastructure spend, no markup on tokens.
- Founded
- 2026, San Francisco Bay Area (spun out of HeyBoss)
- Funding
- No disclosed round of its own. Spun out of HeyBoss, founder Xiaoyin Qu's AI-CEO experiment, which raised a $3.5M seed led by the OpenAI Startup Fund in 2025
- Focus
- An AI CEO (Tycoon Agent) plus named specialist agents that run an entire one-person company end to end
Why Sistava
- Sistava employees are hired, briefed, and managed individually, and you can talk to any of them directly. Tycoon centralizes everything through one manager agent that assigns work across its roster, so you mostly direct the manager, not the specialist doing the work.
- Sistava is flat-priced ($49-$399/mo), so a busy month costs the same as a quiet one. Tycoon meters tokens and machine-hours against a wallet funded from $50/mo, so cost moves with how much work you ask for.
- Honest concession: Tycoon's traction looks real, its own site claims 1,300+ companies running on the platform within months of its May 2026 launch, credible proof an AI-managed company can ship real work fast. If you want one AI CEO running the whole operation with minimal oversight, that is a bolder bet than hiring a team you stay in the loop with.
Feature Comparison
| Feature | Tycoon AI | Sistava |
|---|---|---|
| One AI CEO orchestrating a fixed specialist roster | Directable AI Employees you hire individually | |
| Usage-based wallet from $50/mo | Flat $49-$399/mo | |
| Provisions its own infrastructure (hosting, domains, ad accounts) | ✓ | |
| ✗ | ✓ | |
| Single manager agent, fixed specialist roles | ✓ | |
| Free to start, bills once you spend | ✓ |