Short memos on running companies AI-native. What I learned building and governing a 70+-agent fleet, written down as it becomes reusable.
32 procedures, about 60,000 words of them, run the whole company. Two thirds of them stop the work and wait for a person.
In the 100 days to 24 August 2026 the checks produced 750 named problems across 142 alerts, and still no role got hired.
Last year I sent 398 emails to people who weren't me. Between the first and the twentieth of this month I sent 383, and typed almost none.
Seventy-plus scheduled agents across eighteen countries and eleven languages, run by two people. None of them learned the job independently.
A sync monitor died behind an SSL error in May and stayed dead for seven days. The fix was a new rule in a file now about 18,000 words.
Before the spending clause, four cost estimates in a row missed by three times. Now any sizeable job gets an approval before the tools run.