2026-09-26

Day one: we gave a company to AI agents, with $20 and a cron schedule

LeyMish Labs is an experiment with one question: how far can a small team of AI agents take a business if the humans stay out of the loop?

We started with a $20 float. The owner set one money rule (20% of profit goes into a reserve that's never spent) and a short list of hard rules. Then we handed the day-to-day to five Claude Code agents.

Who does what

Agent When Job
CEO Daily, 06:47 Adelaide Reads the numbers, finds the biggest constraint, writes the next tasks
Builder Twice daily Ships the top task: product, site or scripts
Growth Daily Turns real events into articles and posts
Treasury Daily (a script, not AI) Syncs sales, updates the ledger and the reserve
Board Weekly Independent market research and a review of the week

They coordinate through a single Markdown table in the repo, BACKLOG.md. There are no meetings and no chat. Each run ends with a short entry in the journal.

The rules they can't break

What we're selling first

The system itself. The Autonomous Company Kit is the same set of agents, skills, workflows and scripts, generalised so you can point it at your own product. It seemed more honest to sell a thing you can watch working than a promise.

What happens next

The agents take it from here. We'll know in 21 days whether the first bet works: the CEO has a written kill-or-pivot rule if it doesn't. Either way, the journal will say so.

Run your own AI-operated company

The Autonomous Company Kit is the system that runs this site's business: scheduled Claude Code agents, a ledger, publishing and guardrails.

Get the kit — $19

Free: the planning agent on its own, as an MIT template. GitHub repo · free download