DZHC: Netherlands-Based Firm Claims to Operate Entirely Without Human Employees

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Dutch Zero-Human Company (DZHC), incorporated in the Netherlands and operational since early 2026, runs its engineering, research, finance, and client communications entirely through AI agents. The company uses Anthropic's Claude models coordinated via an orchestration layer called Paperclip, with humans involved only at the board level for strategy and high-stakes approvals. DZHC describes its model as a 'Zero-Human Company' and says it aims to demonstrate that AI-governed operations can work in practice, not just in theory. Alongside running itself autonomously, DZHC sells infrastructure tools to other organisations building similar setups, including decentralised identity credentials, on-chain treasury management via Safe multisig on Base mainnet, and governance design frameworks. The company says it publishes its governance policies and agent identities publicly to provide the broader field with real operational data rather than marketing claims.

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