Executive Summary
General Intelligence, a company building a platform for running businesses with AI agents, has migrated its entire infrastructure to Vercel. Their flagship product, Cofounder, requires deep, programmatic control over the cloud environment for its AI coding agents to operate effectively. General Intelligence chose Vercel over other providers for its comprehensive API and CLI, which enables complete automation of development, testing, and deployment workflows for both their internal team and their customers.
Key Takeaways
* Core Product: General Intelligence's "Cofounder" is a platform that gives founders a full team of AI agents for engineering, marketing, finance, and other business functions.
* Infrastructure Rationale: The company required an infrastructure platform where 100% of operations (deployments, DNS, billing, configuration) could be controlled programmatically by an AI agent, a key reason for choosing Vercel over their previous provider, Render.
* Agent-Driven Workflow: Their engineers and AI agents bypass local development entirely. Code changes are pushed directly to Git branches, which instantly spin up Vercel Preview Environments for automated end-to-end testing.
* Customer Provisioning: Cofounder uses "Vercel for Platforms" to automatically provision a managed Vercel account and GitHub repository for each new customer, enabling their customers' AI agents to manage their own infrastructure.
* Full Stack on Vercel: The company unified its entire stack, including its Python backend, on Vercel to simplify the environment for both human developers and AI agents.
* Development Velocity: The 5-person engineering team manages over 4,000 branches and achieves an average of 10 PRs and 70+ commits per engineer, per day.
Strategic Importance
This case study positions Vercel as the premier infrastructure for the emerging field of AI agent-driven software development. It highlights Vercel's API-first architecture as a critical enabler for companies building highly automated, AI-native platforms.