A 13-year-old built a general AI agent from scratch

Executive overview

Most AI tools handle one task. Flowe AI is a general agent that automates a wide range of everyday tasks — booking flights, cancelling subscriptions, filling forms — with browser automation as its core differentiator.

Michael Goldstein, aged 13, built it after failing to recruit developers, learning to code himself, and landing paying users within months.

The biggest gap in AI today is browser automation for task completion — and almost no one is building it.

Building without a team

• Reached out to multiple developers; none agreed to help, likely due to his age
• Started building alone using AI tools as a substitute for technical knowledge
• Began weekly coding lessons to eventually build without assistance
• First three team members (two developers, one strategist) all reached out to him — he did not recruit them

Advantages and disadvantages of being young

• Youth drove viral interest — launch video performed well partly because of his age
• Age opened doors: accepted as youngest member at Founders Inc., invited to a top AI summit in Paris
• Disadvantage: harder to earn trust from potential partners and hires
• No capital beyond birthday money made early recruiting nearly impossible

The product and the gap

• Flowe AI performs browser automation — filling forms, booking flights, cancelling subscriptions
• Gap identified: tools like ChatGPT and Claude do not do automated task execution in the browser
• Current state: functional with paying users, but still has many bugs being fixed
• Target: $10,000 monthly recurring revenue, timeline uncertain but hoping within a year