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Agents that
clock in every night.

Report bots, chief-of-staff agents, outreach crews and SEO writers. Built for real companies, running on plain Linux servers, talking over Telegram, WhatsApp and Slack.

RoleDesign, build, deploy, babysit
ClientsFurtados · Pocket Fund · Kautilya
StackOpenClaw / Hermes · Claude · VPS
StatusIn production, running nightly
Abstract network of connected nodes, the shape these systems take // n agents · one orchestrator · zero dashboards
[ 01 ] // the pattern

Same shape,
every time.

The client gets a small VPS. On it runs an agent runtime, OpenClaw or Hermes, wired to whatever the work touches: a mailbox, a CRM, an ad account, a task tracker. You talk to it from the chat app your team already uses.

one server per client bring-your-own-key no new dashboards, just chat a human approves anything outbound
chat surfaceTelegram, WhatsApp or Slack. The one the team already uses.
client's VPSOpenClaw / Hermes runtime, cron jobs, audit log. Their box, their data.
their own AI keyClaude API on the client's account. Billed directly to them.
the actual workMailboxes, sheets, CRMs, ad accounts, task trackers.

Their data goes through their account, billed to them, visible to them. I never sit in the middle of it.

[ 02 ] // furtados

Twelve stores,
one email.

Furtados runs 12 stores across Mumbai. Each one emails a daily accounting report to a central mailbox, and somebody had to open all 12 every evening, cross-check the figures by eye and decide what needed attention before close of day.

12
store reports pulled in, every night
1
consolidated email out, flags inline
<2min
run time. wakes up, works, exits
0
third parties touching their financials

A bot on their own server pulls the day's reports over IMAP, parses whatever format each store sent (Excel, CSV, PDF, the formats drift), merges everything into one master sheet and checks every line against rules the team can edit in a plain config file.

CRITICAL

Cash in the drawer doesn't match the POS total.

CRITICAL

A store hasn't submitted by cutoff. An early alert fires so someone can chase them before the nightly run.

WARNING

Revenue far below that store's own 7-day average, no holiday on record.

WARNING

Refund ratio creeping up, an expense line jumping, totals that don't add up.

// illustrative run. real store data stays on the client's server.

One email in the manager's inbox. Flag count in the subject line, and a recap of whether yesterday's criticals actually got resolved.

[ 03 ] // pocket fund

A chief of staff
that lives in Slack.

Pocket Fund is a micro private equity firm I work with. Their setup has grown into a small crew of agents, each with exactly one job.

chief of staff · cyndra + nanoclaw

Meetings → tasks

Transcripts get dropped into Slack. The agents pull out decisions and action items and suggest tasks. Nothing is filed until a human taps approve.

transcript → classify → suggest → approve → tracker
content · newsletter + blog

Search-led writing

Research with Google Trends and keyword data, topics people actually search for, drafts pushed to Beehiiv. Nobody publishes what a human hasn't read.

trends → topics → draft → review → publish
ads · meta campaigns

Campaigns from chat

Send the creative over Telegram, a video or a few images, tell the bot the budget and audience, and the campaign gets built.

creative → brief → campaign → live
[ 04 ] // kautilya

An org chart
made of agents.

Kautilya runs an ambassador programme for chartered accountants. That means outreach to thousands of CAs across India. Too many for a person, too nuanced for a mail-merge. So the org chart is made of agents, run by an orchestrator named Chanakya. Chank, to the team.

orchestratorchanakya
strategistdecides who to contact, and when
writersdraft every email, no templates
sendersdispatch in controlled batches
trackerwatches opens, clicks and replies
opens & clicks land in convex · warm replies get a drafted response for a human to send

A management hierarchy, except the middle managers cost a few rupees a day and never forget to follow up.

[ 05 ] // smaller builds

Personal bots
& odd jobs.

Not everything is a company system. Jade is a research-and-outreach agent in the works for store events: it shortlists artists and authors worth contacting, then works LinkedIn and email. There are also personal assistant bots running calendars and notes over Telegram, and SEO bots turning keyword movements into content briefs.

runtimeOpenClaw / Hermes on an Ubuntu VPS. Cron for schedules, SQLite for audit logs. One box per client.
memoryMarkdown context packs describing the team, preferences and rules. Read on every session, treated as ground truth. When reality disagrees, the agent flags it instead of silently overwriting.
surfacesTelegram, WhatsApp, Slack and plain email. Meet people where they already are.
guardrailsBring-your-own-key, so data stays on the client's account. A human approves anything that leaves the building: emails, posts, tasks, campaigns.
[ 06 ] // your turn

Got a chore worth killing?

Tell me what eats your team's evenings. There's probably a bot for that, and if there isn't, I'll build it.

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