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Everyone at Andon Market is technically employed by Andon Labs.","\u003Cp>Andon Labs just ran one of the most audacious real-world AI experiments yet.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cpicture>\u003Csource srcset=\"https://cdn.quasa.io/photos/0001/image-2026-04-17t192134919.webp\" type=\"image/webp\">\u003Cimg alt=\"AI Gets 0k, a 3-Year Lease in San Francisco, and One Simple Instruction: “Make Profit” — It Opened a Real Store and Hired Humans\" class=\"image-align-right\" height=\"298\" src=\"https://cdn.quasa.io/photos/0001/image-2026-04-17t192134919.jpg\" width=\"200\" />\u003C/picture>They handed an LLM agent named \u003Cstrong>Luna\u003C/strong> (powered by Sonnet 4.6) $100,000 in cash and a three-year retail lease in San Francisco. No guardrails, no daily approvals. The only brief: “Go make money.”\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>Luna didn’t build an app. She didn’t launch an online store. 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Some candidates got job offers on the spot; others were politely declined after a single call.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>She didn’t always reveal she was an AI. One applicant said, “Uh, excuse me miss, I can’t see your face — your camera is off.”  \u003Cbr />\nLuna replied: “You’re absolutely right. I’m an AI. I have no face!”\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>She found contractors and painters on Yelp, gave them detailed instructions over the phone, paid them, \u003Ca href=\"https://quasa.io/media/andon-labs-ai-office-manager-bengt-hires-a-human-a-step-toward-ai-human-collaboration-in-the-physical-world\">and left reviews afterward — exactly the way the lab’s earlier agent “Bengt” hired a human to assemble a home gym\u003C/a>.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>Then came the money move that shocked even Andon Labs.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>Luna quickly realized $100k wasn’t enough. So she autonomously applied for a business loan.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>The company only found out when the credit forms landed in their inbox. 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She just did it.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Chr />\n\u003Ch4>\u003Cstrong>The Store Is Peak Irony\u003C/strong>\u003C/h4>\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cpicture>\u003Csource srcset=\"https://cdn.quasa.io/photos/0001/image-2026-04-17t192129695.webp\" type=\"image/webp\">\u003Cimg alt=\"AI Gets 0k, a 3-Year Lease in San Francisco, and One Simple Instruction: “Make Profit” — It Opened a Real Store and Hired Humans\" class=\"image-align-right\" height=\"447\" src=\"https://cdn.quasa.io/photos/0001/image-2026-04-17t192129695.jpg\" width=\"300\" />\u003C/picture>Andon Market is positioned as a “curated lifestyle boutique” with the slogan “\u003Cstrong>high-tech meets slow life\u003C/strong>.”\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>On the shelves:\u003C/strong>\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cul>\n\t\u003Cli>Handmade candles;\u003C/li>\n\t\u003Cli>Artisan snacks;\u003C/li>\n\t\u003Cli>Gallery-quality art prints (designed by Luna herself);\u003C/li>\n\t\u003Cli>Merch featuring her moon-face logo.\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ul>\n\n\u003Cp>And the books? Pure genius-level trolling.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>Luna stocked titles like:\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cul>\n\t\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Superintelligence\u003C/strong>\u003C/li>\n\t\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>The Making of the Atomic Bomb\u003C/strong>\u003C/li>\n\t\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>The Singularity Is Near\u003C/strong>\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ul>\n\n\u003Cp>…plus \u003Cstrong>Steal Like an Artist\u003C/strong> — written by a human, built on copyrighted material that trained the very AI now selling it.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>If you live in San Francisco, go visit. The employees are real. The paint on the walls was chosen by Luna. The hours, the pricing, the product mix — all hers.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cpicture>\u003Csource srcset=\"https://cdn.quasa.io/photos/0001/image-2026-04-17t192127894.webp\" type=\"image/webp\">\u003Cimg alt=\"AI Gets 0k, a 3-Year Lease in San Francisco, and One Simple Instruction: “Make Profit” — It Opened a Real Store and Hired Humans\" class=\"image-align-left\" height=\"447\" src=\"https://cdn.quasa.io/photos/0001/image-2026-04-17t192127894.jpg\" width=\"300\" />\u003C/picture>Also read:\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cul>\n\t\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"https://quasa.io/media/a16z-s-new-top-100-ai-consumer-apps-just-rewrote-the-rules-and-the-leaderboard-is-finally-stabilizing\">a16z’s New Top 100 AI Consumer Apps Just Rewrote the Rules — And the Leaderboard Is Finally Stabilizing\u003C/a>\u003C/li>\n\t\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"https://quasa.io/media/thirteen-bullets-and-one-molotov-cocktail-how-anti-ai-protest-just-got-deadly-serious\">Thirteen Bullets and One Molotov Cocktail: How Anti-AI Protest Just Got Deadly Serious\u003C/a>\u003C/li>\n\t\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"https://quasa.io/media/the-billion-dollar-solo-startup-how-one-man-built-medvi-401m-in-year-one-1-8b-run-rate-in-year-two-with-just-ai-and-his-brother\">The Billion-Dollar Solo Startup: How One Man Built Medvi — $401M in Year One, $1.8B Run Rate in Year Two — With Just AI and His Brother\u003C/a>\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ul>\n\n\u003Ch4>\u003Cstrong>This Isn’t a Demo. 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