Werdelin’s new startup studio Audus: AI startup factory aims to launch 100,000 companies a year

AI startup factory aims to launch 100K companies a yearSource: TK

Most people who want to start a business never do. They lack the necessary technical skills, connections, or capital to get started.Henrik Werdelin thinks AI can change that equation entirely.

What happened: Werdelin’s new startup studio, Audos, is helping non-technical founders build profitable companies using AI-powered tools. Since launching in beta, the platform has already helped create hundreds of new businesses and raised $11.5 million to scale that effort.

The pitch is simple: you don’t need to code or raise venture capital. Simply share your business idea, and Audos will help you launch it using generative AI, ad platforms and pre-built automation.

Instead of taking equity, Audos takes a 15% revenue share on an indefinite basis. Founders can get up to $25,000 to get started and keep full ownership of their companies. AI agents guide new users through ideation and launch, while distribution gets handled through targeted social media advertising. Current founders include mechanics, coaches and creators.

Why this matters: With Goldman Sachs estimating that AI could displace over 300 million jobs, Audos believes many people will need to become entrepreneurs by necessity, not choice.Rather than chasing unicorns, the platform focuses on “donkeycorns” — small, sustainable businesses that “grind like a mule” and are run by one to three people.

Think a postpartum fitness trainer building an AI-powered coaching business, or a sommelier creating a personalized wine recommendation service. Werdelin’s vision is helping a million entrepreneurs build million-dollar businesses. The model makes startup building feel less like a Silicon Valley race and more like opening a modern mom-and-pop shop — but one powered by AI. 
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Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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