Playbooks for founders
shipping with AI agents.

Start here: AI agents as your first hires

Every article on this blog is written for the same founder — someone who has shipped a product with Claude Code or Codex and now needs the company around it to run at the same speed. That usually means handing the first recurring work to AI agents instead of making the first hires. The playbooks below cover the five agent archetypes that touch revenue: SDR agents that research accounts and book meetings, voice agents that answer every call, chat agents that convert site visitors, content agents that publish in your voice, and support agents that clear the routine tickets before they reach you.

Start with the five tasks worth handing off first, then read how founders run GTM alone for the full deployment plan. If you are comparing tools before you commit, the AI SDR software buying guide and the customer service software comparison walk through the evaluation criteria — integration depth, data portability, oversight controls and cost per outcome — that matter more than any feature list. And when the question is whether to hire or automate, the team build plan runs the honest cost math. Every guide ends the same way: with the guardrails that keep automated work trustworthy, and the decisions that stay yours.