“Control is all you need” sounds like the catchphrase of a supervillain planning to take over the world, but it’s actually the tagline of DoubleSpeed, a new startup backed by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). According to their homepage, DoubleSpeed claims their AI phone farm is a “TERMINAL [that] allows you to orchestrate actions on thousands of social accounts through both bulk content creation and deployment.”

Meaning, DoubleSpeed will let you run your own bot farm for the low price of $7,500 a month.

a16z-backed DoubleSpeed lets you control 1000s of social media accounts with AI, ensuring they look as human as possible - "never pay a human again"! pic.twitter.com/lsMwa1QTjz

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— near (@nearcyan) October 23, 2025

Yes, we built a phone farm (and its pretty sick).

At first, it was to tackle the first evolution of ai on socials: replacing human creators with ai, mainly used for marketing.

Many businesses use us for that today.

But the device infra gave us ability to run every possible… https://t.co/TXgPZKWd3mpic.twitter.com/DYlqtXjodG

— Zuhair Lakhani (@rareZuhair) October 22, 2025

In an effort to sound more visionary and less sinister, they’ve coined the phrase “Instrumented Human Action,” which they define as the ability to “mimic natural user interaction on physical devices to get [your] content to appear human to the algorithims [sic]." Yes, DoubleSpeed’s website currently misspells the word “algorithms.”

According to Futurism, a16z has already invested $1 million into the startup. And as 404Media notes, using such tools to run accounts on social media platforms such as X, Instagram and Facebook, are blatant violations of their terms of service.

So, it’s hard to say if the investment will pan out.