The design bottleneck for solo founders? AI has solved it.

Presented by Design.comSomething significant is happening in how people build businesses. There are currently 29.8 million solopreneurs contributing $1.7 trillion to the U.S. economy, and over 80% of all U.S. small businesses now operate with no employees. In 2024 alone, entrepreneurs filed 5.2 million new business applications — and LinkedIn reported a 69% jump in people adding “founder” to their profiles in a single year.Most solopreneurs aren’t building companies they hope to escape — they’re deliberately architecting independent lives. Three-quarters say flexibility matters more than growth. But aspiration has always been cheaper than execution. What changed isn’t the desire to go solo; it’s the toolkit available when you try.Software already eliminated most barriersThe entrepreneurshi