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 | 14 | Founded | 2 months ago | Last Issue | 15 days ago |
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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...
From Prompts to Digital Assembly Lines
The defining technological shift of 2026 is not just that AI models are getting better. It is that the way we use them is changing.
For the last few years, most AI interaction has been built around the same basic pattern: you write a promp...
I Asked a Weird Question. The Answer Changed How I Think About AI.
It started with a silly thought.
Everyone in my feed was posting about Claude Opus 4.8. The announcements, the benchmarks, the “this changes everything” takes. And somewhere in the middle of scrolling through all of it, a completely differ...
We Built a Local AI Machine on a Public Holiday
There are probably more normal ways to spend a public holiday, but for us this turned into one of those days where curiosity took over and the hours disappeared. While many people were relaxing, hiking, or catching up on things at home, we...
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