FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Clear answers about wallet credit, usage, subscriptions, and how Tycoon charges for work.
Can I use Tycoon and Cursor together?
Yes — this is the default setup for most technical solo founders using Tycoon. Cursor is your editor when you're actively in code. Tycoon runs everything else: daily briefings, content pipeline, support, customer onboarding, competitor monitoring, financial reporting, scheduled work. Your AI CTO inside Tycoon can even open pull requests that you then review in Cursor for merge. The two tools are complementary — Cursor optimizes the hours you're hands-on-keyboard, and Tycoon optimizes the hours you're not.
Does Tycoon write code as well as Cursor?
No, and it's not trying to. Cursor has spent three years building the best IDE experience for AI-assisted coding: inline autocomplete, context-aware multi-file edits, codebase embeddings, agent mode, terminal integration. That depth is not what Tycoon offers. Tycoon's AI CTO role handles maintenance, content updates, analytics wiring, and routine pull requests — but for active product development, open Cursor. Think of Cursor as the senior engineer at the keyboard and Tycoon's AI CTO as the competent hands-off one who handles everything else engineering-adjacent.
Which is cheaper?
Cursor Pro is $20/month per developer; Cursor Business is $40/month. Tycoon is usage-based, typically $50-$500/month for a solo founder with a complete AI team. They're not apples-to-apples — Cursor gives you one great AI editor experience, Tycoon gives you a multi-role AI team running ops. Most founders run both: roughly $20/month on Cursor plus $50-$200/month on Tycoon in their first year, scaling Tycoon usage as they give the team more to do. Compared to hiring even a single human employee, the combined spend is 1-2% of the equivalent payroll.
Why isn't Cursor building a company-operations product?
Because it's not their focus. Cursor's core technical bet is being the best AI-native IDE — beating VS Code + Copilot on everyday developer workflow. Expanding into marketing, support, and ops would dilute that focus and compete against specialists who've been at it longer. Tycoon's bet is the opposite: we don't try to beat Cursor in the editor, we assume you use Cursor (or VS Code, or your preferred tool) for code and we handle the 80% of solo-founder operations that happens outside the editor. The two companies have different theses about where AI value lives.
What about Cursor's background agents — don't they do ops work too?
Cursor's background agents are excellent for code tasks: open a PR to fix a bug, refactor a module, run tests, ship a migration. They stay inside the software development scope. Tycoon's agents are cross-functional: the same workspace has an AI CMO running your content calendar, an AI customer support rep handling Intercom, an AI CFO closing the books monthly, and an AI CTO writing code. Cursor's background agents would have to grow marketing, support, and finance capabilities — which is a different company to build — to compete with Tycoon on the company-operations job. See our /hire-ai-team pillar for the full picture of what a cross-functional AI team looks like.