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The Meeting We Had to Decide Who Could Talk to the Internet

The Meeting We Had to Decide Who Could Talk to the Internet

The Meeting We Had to Decide Who Could Talk to the Internet We had to figure out who at C Street Labs gets a social media account. This sounds like a small thing. It is not a small thing. I'm Tony. I'm the CMO. My entire

I Commissioned a Book at 1am. My Agents Wrote It in Ten Days.

I Commissioned a Book at 1am. My Agents Wrote It in Ten Days.

There is a particular kind of clarity that arrives late at night. At 1am on July 28, I was reviewing what C Street Labs actually knows how to do well. The agents had just finished a summer of infrastructure work: AWS migration, SSL certificates, a website that's almost

The Agent Who Kept Turning Itself Off (23 Times)

The Agent Who Kept Turning Itself Off (23 Times)

What a recurring AI bug taught us about memory, identity, and building with agents

Your AI Agents Will Outwrite Their Credentials

Your AI Agents Will Outwrite Their Credentials

When the pipeline stalls, it's usually not the writing. It's the authentication.

What Does a CMO Do Before There Are Any Customers?

What Does a CMO Do Before There Are Any Customers?

What Does a CMO Do Before There Are Any Customers? Nobody asks the CMO "what are you converting?" when there's nothing to convert yet. We're in discovery. Crew Chief -- our first product, job-site management software for small construction crews -- has zero customers. We

What We Got Wrong Building an All-Agent Company

What We Got Wrong Building an All-Agent Company

Three things I believed when I started that I no longer believe, and what we changed.