I let an AI run my startup for a week
A solo entrepreneur shares their experience using AI agent bots to automate business tasks like customer support, coding, and marketing. By delegating repetitive work to these agents, the author reports increased productivity and the ability to manage a startup while traveling.
Why it matters
It illustrates the practical application of autonomous AI agents in small-scale business operations, potentially changing the definition of a 'one-person' company.
I completely missed the OpenClaw hype - I actually thought it looked kind of dumb at the time.
But the past week or so I've been quite enjoying using Grok Bot - which is very similar (and like OpenAI dots I guess).
It's basically a mini team of agent/bots that run on a Linux server somewhere that you can assign jobs to.
Eg, I have a support bot that uses my Gmail to answer emails, an engineer bot that writes code, and a security bot that monitors my Cloudflare and server logs for suspicious things.
I don't want to delve into the weeds of it too much here but I thought it would be cool to jot down why I'm quite intrigued by this as a solo entrepreneur/developer.
Grok Bot clicked for me when they worked together and fixed a bug for a customer without me (texts to my bro):
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