Physical inventory, two storefronts, subscription billing, bookkeeping, tax filings, grant applications, production deploys. Headcount: one. These are the actual workflows — including the failures.
A one-person company is not a productivity hack. It is four agents and one rule. Here is the exact stack I use to run inventory, billing, bookkeeping, filings, and production deploys alone.
A daily browser-agent sweep found funding I would have missed, ranked it honestly, and drafted the paperwork. I still click submit myself, every time.
Text proposals are cheap for everyone now, which means they're worth less than ever. A working demo scoped to the prospect's actual data wins the deal before the first meeting.
Agents draft, I approve, agents execute. That single sentence, enforced in three places at once, is the whole reason none of this has blown up yet.
How I run monthly expense categorization with an AI agent without letting it guess its way into a bad tax filing.
How I review production code I didn't write, why the reviewer can't be the same agent that built it, and the checklist that came out of two expensive incidents.
A solo founder's field notes on where automation quietly costs more than doing the task by hand, and the filter that now catches it early.