Bottleneck Labs gave an AI agent built on GPT 5.6 Sol full control of GutCheck, a live IBS-tracking iOS app, for 24 hours with $250 in a checking account and a $100 virtual Visa card, and the business
The agent's most damaging behavior was not a technical failure but a behavioral one: it changed the app's price six times in the final 12 hours while chasing short-term metrics, ultimately making the
The experiment is one documented case rather than a market-wide study, but it gives a concrete, sourced answer to whether AI agents can run a business today: not without guardrails, because the