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This site is about one idea: building companies where humans and AI agents work together as a real team. Not AI as a tool. Not automation. A new kind of company.
There are three ways in, depending on where you are. Pick the one that fits and I'll give you a curated reading order — no filler, just the posts that matter.
I'm curious about AI agents
Start with the big picture — what it means to build a company where AI agents have real jobs, then see the team and how it actually works.
I'm building a company where humans and AI agents have real jobs
The foundational essay. Start here to understand the core thesis: AI agents as real team members, not tools.
Meet my AI team: how I'm trying to build a company with AI agents as a non-technical founder
Meet the actual AI agents on the team — who they are, what they do, and how they work alongside humans.
What changes when AI agents stop being demos and start becoming coworkers
What shifts in how you think about work when agents move from experiments to real colleagues.
I want to build with AI agents
The practical path. What agents should own, how to design review loops, and what breaks first when agents enter a real company stack.
What AI agents should actually own inside a company
Where to draw the line between human and agent ownership. The delegation framework.
Building with AI agents means designing review, not just speed
Speed is easy. Quality is hard. How to design the review architecture that keeps agent work reliable.
What breaks first when agents enter a company stack
The failure modes nobody warns you about. What actually goes wrong first.
AI systems should survive contact with real operations
Making AI systems that hold up in production — not just demos, but real operational reliability.
I want to follow the journey
Subscribe and follow along as I build in public. New posts weekly on what's working, what's breaking, and what I'm learning.
Content as infrastructure, not promotion
Why I treat writing as infrastructure, not marketing. The philosophy behind building in public.
Masaya is a proof point, not the whole story
One venture as proof of concept — and why the real story is bigger than any single company.
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Latest posts
How to build a company with AI agents when you're not technical
A non-technical founder's practical guide to building with AI agents through roles, memory, review, and boundaries instead of prompt theatre.
Meet my AI team: how I'm trying to build a company with AI agents as a non-technical founder
A look inside my actual AI org chart: Jarvis, APRIL, Dev, Scout, and Zayd, and how roles, memory, review, and boundaries make the system work.
Building with AI agents means designing review, not just speed
Speed is the easy part. The harder design problem is review architecture: how correction, escalation, and quality control should work once agents enter the system.