The Agent Stack · A build blueprint
Make a small helper. It takes the boring part off your plate. Make it bigger. Then do it again with the next thing. A start-anywhere guide for people who run businesses, not codebases.
Wayfinder
Pick a door. Each one drops you exactly where you need to be. Nothing here assumes you know anything yet.
The honest part
Not because the AI is bad. Because of how people set it up. The good news: the thing that fixes it is simple, repeatable, and the whole point of this guide.
Write the task down, start it somewhere safe, watch it until it earns trust, then loosen up slowly. That is it. The next four pages walk you through exactly that, in order.
The map
The big three. The Handover. What is inside every agent. Plain English, friendly, one glance each.
OpenThe Funnel Method. The five-stage path from idea to running agent. Worked examples, end to end.
OpenReal workflows, wired up as diagrams. If you have the problem, we have the teammate.
OpenOne to three hours a week. Do exactly this, in this order. Plus the deploy checklist.
OpenProblem not in the library yet? We map it, scope a teammate, and ship it. Next time, it's already solved.
How it worksIf you remember one thing
Write the process down so a stranger could run it. That document is the agent.
Keep a human reviewing outputs until 30+ are right in a row.
Loosen the gate one category at a time. That loop compounds.
Operators chase model upgrades and ignore architecture. The work is mundane and high-leverage: write the process down, turn the repeated parts into skills, wire one tool at a time, gate it, then loosen the gate slowly. That is the whole game.