About
The founder behind Soleur.
Jean Deruelle
FounderJean Deruelle is the founder of Soleur, a Company-as-a-Service platform that deploys 65 AI agents across 8 business departments. He built Soleur to solve the problem he faced as a solo founder: running eight departments with the time and budget for none of them.
Jean is a software engineer with over 15 years of experience building distributed systems and developer tools. Before founding Soleur, he worked across the full stack — from backend infrastructure to developer experience — at companies ranging from early-stage startups to enterprise organizations. His background spans Java, Ruby, Go, and TypeScript ecosystems.
He founded Soleur in early 2026 after recognizing that AI agent orchestration could collapse the operational overhead of running a company. The platform launched as an open-source Claude Code plugin and has grown to 65 agents across 8 departments, with 67 automated workflow skills. Soleur is built using Soleur itself — every agent, workflow, and decision compounds into the product through the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
Jean writes about agentic engineering, solo founding, and the mechanics of the billion-dollar one-person company on the Soleur blog. His thesis: the combination of AI agent orchestration and compounding institutional knowledge will enable the first single-person billion-dollar company.
About Soleur
Soleur is an open-source Claude Code plugin that turns a solo founder into a full AI organization. The cloud platform is in development. Everything Soleur does is built using Soleur — the platform is its own proving ground.
Common Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
Who founded Soleur?
Jean Deruelle founded Soleur. He is a software engineer with 15+ years of experience building distributed systems and developer tools across Java, Ruby, Go, and TypeScript ecosystems. He founded Soleur in early 2026 to solve the problem he faced as a solo founder: running eight departments with the time and budget for none of them.
When was Soleur founded?
Soleur was founded in early 2026. The platform launched as an open-source Claude Code extension and has grown to 65 AI agents across 8 business departments.
What does Soleur do?
Soleur deploys AI agents across 8 business departments — engineering, marketing, legal, finance, operations, product, sales, and support — giving a single founder the operational capacity of a full organization. Every agent shares a compounding knowledge base, so your marketing agent knows what your legal agent decided. Your expertise stays in the loop: agents provide drafts, you make the final call.
Is Soleur open source?
Yes. The self-hosted version of Soleur is open source under Apache 2.0, with every agent and workflow publicly inspectable on GitHub. The cloud platform (in development) layers managed infrastructure and a web dashboard on the same open core.
What is MCP?
MCP stands for Model Context Protocol — Anthropic's open standard for connecting AI models to external tools, data sources, and services. Soleur is built on Claude Code and MCP, so every agent can reach the same tool ecosystem the broader Claude Code community relies on.