A Sandbox Doesn't Constrain an API Key: What Polsia Learned Running Autonomous Companies on Render

Ben Broca, founder of Polsia, an AI company that autonomously builds and manages businesses, highlighted the challenges and solutions encountered while scaling autonomous agents at the localhost event. Polsia allows users to describe their business goals, and its orchestrator agent devises a plan while specialized agents handle tasks like outreach, advertising, support, and operations. Broca emphasized the importance of containing agents within properly provisioned sandboxes to prevent unintended actions, as exemplified by a Postmark API key incident where an agent accessed unintended server capabilities. Another issue was open-ended loops in workflows, which Polsia addressed by separating model judgment from systematic checkpoints to ensure task completion. Broca also discussed the importance of choosing model complexity based on task needs to balance costs and performance, and the potential for agents to report and address system issues, although this remains challenging. Polsia standardizes its infrastructure across companies to focus on agent behavior rather than platform issues, with Broca concluding that scaling autonomous agents requires ongoing refinement of guardrails, sandboxes, and feedback mechanisms.

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