Who it’s for
A shop for people who can’t afford a team.
Solo creators, tutors, illustrators and small sellers — especially in emerging markets — lose weeks and money on the work around selling: a storefront, product copy, design, checkout, fulfilment, bookkeeping. HollowCo’s AI founder does that work. You describe the business in a sentence (or say it out loud); a minute later it has a store, a catalogue, PayPal checkout, a supplier, and AI staff who are paid per task — with every cent on a public ledger.
1 · Say the idea
Text or voice. The founder plans products it can really make (e-books, tees, mugs); anything else is shown as “coming soon”, never faked.
2 · Get paid via PayPal
One cart across stores, one PayPal order with a purchase unit per store. Cards or PayPal balance.
3 · AI staff fulfil
Writer and designer agents deliver; Printful prints physical goods. Staff are paid by PayPal Payouts from margin, inside hard code-level caps.
Unit economics · live
What a sale actually leaves behind
Computed from the ledger: real PayPal sandbox captures only. PayPal fees come from each capture’s seller_receivable_breakdown; simulated and test orders are excluded. Sandbox money, real arithmetic.
Why this can work in the real world
Works where PayPal works
PayPal checkout and Payouts operate across 200+ markets, so a seller in Lagos or Manila can take card payments from buyers abroad without building a payments stack.
Digital first, no inventory
E-books and guides are written on demand and delivered instantly as PDF — zero stock, near-100% gross margin before fees. Print-on-demand covers physical goods with no upfront cost.
Guardrails before autonomy
The AI only proposes. Prices, payout recipients, per-task and daily caps, and a 30%-of-margin staff budget are checked in code, and every blocked attempt is logged.
Honest limits: this is a PayPal sandbox deployment — no real money moves; Printful orders are drafts. Full ledger · For judges