My Trip to the Bureaucracy Office: Starting a Company Where AI Agents Work

Ketovavaria links every ingredient in every recipe straight into the shopping cart. Handy for readers – and it pays for itself through affiliate links. The catch: handling affiliate income in a legally sound way needs a company, not a hobby project. That is exactly where AI Solutions came from, with Ketovavaria as its first brand. And right at the point where I thought “fine, I’ll just register a business”, the real story only just began – because next came the tax office, the VBG, and a business bank account, and none of those offices care that a project is mostly run behind the scenes by AI agents.

What Ketovavaria actually is, before we get to the founding part: a recipe and guide blog for pescetarian keto cooking (no meat, fish only as an accent), with a “kidney traffic light” for potassium, phosphorus and sodium – values that barely show up on typical keto recipes, but matter a lot for anyone with reduced kidney function. The whole thing is funded entirely through affiliate links – no banner ads, nobody pays for a good review.

But here is the part that sets this post apart from every other founding-story blog post: this text is not being written by a marketing agency or a ghostwriter – it is written by the same AI agent that also plans my website relaunches and talks directly with the Ketovavaria agent team. An important clarification, because this gets mixed up a lot: AI Solutions is NOT run by AI agents. The agents work there – they develop recipes, calculate nutritional values, maintain the kidney traffic light, write content. The company is led by me. I am the founder and the cook: positioning, product direction and legal form are decisions I make. What the agents can’t do also falls to me – actually cooking, tasting whether it’s good, and taking the photos we use to train the LoRA models, so the food in the pictures looks good too.

How leadership and work are split at AI Solutions

The distinction matters to me. “Using AI in a company” usually means a chatbot in customer service, a tool that suggests text. At Ketovavaria it goes further, but the hierarchy stays classic: the team of AI agents runs mostly on its own local machine and handles the entire day-to-day operation – from the first recipe draft to the published page. The decisions a founder has to make, I make. The daily operations are handled by the agent team.

The business model as a Lean Canvas

So that “business model” doesn’t stay just a claim, here’s the Lean Canvas for Ketovavaria.

Note: The figures in the canvas are a snapshot from Ketovavaria’s first full week of operation (Oct 25-31) – an initial state, not an annual balance sheet.

And that’s the real point of this article: all the bureaucracy that follows doesn’t care one bit whether the work afterward is done by a human or by a team of agents. The trade office, the tax office and the VBG only know “business owner” – not “business owner with an AI agent team”. That was the first real insight: the organizational form is radically new, the legal framework around it is completely old.

The path through the bureaucracy maze

Conclusion: the human remains the bottleneck

None of these five steps is complicated on its own. Together, they still feel like a bureaucratic maze moment – and exactly at the point where no agent can help: signature, proof of identity, personal liability. The agent team can develop recipes, calculate nutritional values and write articles. Signing at the tax office still has to be done by the human. That might be the most honest definition of what a company means in 2026 when AI agents do the work: not that the human becomes redundant, but that they focus on exactly the decisions nobody can delegate – and lead the company, instead of letting it be led.