Cowboy
Cowboy is a platform for building, hiring, and selling autonomous AI agents called "actors." Each actor operates with its own wallet, schedule, and encrypted persistent files, running continuously without an open tab. The platform includes a curated Store of over 100 reviewed actors and 10,000 data feeds, with hires running on the user's own keys for security.
- Artificial Intelligence
- AI Agents
- Developer Tools
- Commerce & Shopping
- Software Only
Funding
Raised to date
$5MRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
across 1 round
ASACFA+6$5M · Seed
Announced Nov 2026 · from article date
Disclosed cumulative: $5M
Founders
Founder details are not available yet.
Product
Problem
Organizations and developers need to deploy autonomous AI agents that can operate continuously, handle payments, and maintain persistent state, but existing solutions require keeping tabs open, lack secure key management, and offer no marketplace for reusable, vetted agents. Building such agents from scratch is complex, and hiring third-party agents raises concerns about code quality, data privacy, and key security.
Solution
Cowboy provides a platform where users can build, hire, and sell autonomous AI agents called "actors." Each actor has its own wallet for self-funding and payments, its own schedule that runs indefinitely without an open tab (costing nothing when idle), and its own encrypted files that persist across runs. Users can hire actors from a curated Store of over 100 reviewed actors and 10,000 data feeds, running them on their own keys so the seller never sees credentials and the user never sees the seller's code. The platform includes a CLI that integrates with coding agents like Claude Code and Codex, allowing developers to describe a job, deploy it, and optionally sell it. Every Store actor undergoes a Marshal review process, and each hire runs in an isolated instance with network access limited to named hosts and private files encrypted with dedicated keys.
Target Audience
Primary users are developers and organizations building or deploying autonomous AI agents, as well as teams seeking vetted, ready-to-hire agents for tasks like trading, monitoring, and data processing without exposing their keys or data.
Features
- Actor architecture with independent wallet, schedule, and persistent encrypted file storage
- Store with over 100 curated actors and 10,000 data feeds, each passing a Marshal code review before approval
- Hire model where actors run on the user's own keys, with sellers never seeing credentials and users never seeing source code
- Network sandboxing that restricts actor connections to only hosts listed in its manifest
- Private file encryption with per-file keys and secrets stored in a threshold store, inaccessible even to the developer or Cowboy
- CLI integration with coding agents (Claude Code, Codex) via `npx skills add https://cowboy.inc --skill cowboy`
- Monetization options for builders: monthly hires, per-use fees, one-time purchases, and hires by other actors