Ravenopus: a one-person marketing agency run on AI agents, $20K-30K monthly retainers
Linara Bozieva spent 11 years at eBay before being laid off, then founded Ravenopus in San Jose in May 2024. She is the only human, running about 30 to 35 specialized AI agents for strategy, research, creative, media and conversion work. Forbes reports retainers in the $20,000 to $30,000 range and the bootstrapped company profitable since day one, per the founder. The figures are self-reported; the pattern of one person plus an agent fleet is the most copyable of the three cases this cycle.