The Agent Layer
The Agent Layer, The Boring Finance GuyThe Agent Layer is where I document the building of an AI company in real time, while writing about AI, technology, software, and the shift toward agent-driven businesses. It sits at the intersection of founder journey, applied AI and product building.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 17 | Founded | 6 months ago | Last Issue | 11 days ago |
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"Your data stays in Europe" is usually half the story
There are two questions hiding inside “where does my data go?”, and most AI sales pitches only answer the first one.
The first question is where the computer is. The second is who owns the company that runs it. They sound like the same que...
How we're choosing our engine (we wrote the rules first)
Every AI product has an engine in the middle. It’s the piece of software that takes a task, asks an AI model what to do next, uses a tool (search the web, open a file, write a document), looks at what came back, and goes around again until...
Twelve days, 27 decisions, zero lines of product code
On September 11, the plan for our product was a document called version 0.1. By September 22 it had reached version 1.3. On the 23rd we stopped counting in small steps, called it 2.0, and gave the product a name: which will be released soon...
The work that wins you nothing and still has to get done
My busiest weeks since starting this company have also been my least productive. I wasn’t slacking. I was doing admin, and admin produces nothing a customer will ever see. You finish on Friday, worn out, and the company hasn’t moved an inch...
The first yeses (and a product that almost works)
Quick note for anyone reading these for the first time: we’re a small team, I’m writing as we go, and the last piece was mostly about the idea and why we decided to chase it. This one picks up right after that, at the part where you stop pl...
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