Series · 7 articles

Building in the Open

A 7-part series documenting how Picking Solutions was built in 30 days with AI — and the ongoing autonomous company experiment.

A 2018 reflection on time and attention sat dormant for 7 years. Then AI removed the last barrier — the fear of starting.

Initial DeepAgent prompts, feed architecture decisions, and the first data flowing through the system. The messy reality of starting from zero.

Building battery revenue calculators, home savings tools, and the prices ticker. When utility meets market intelligence.

The forecaster tool, tokenized asset tracking, and building a reports pipeline. Layering premium intelligence on top of free signals.

Charts, on-chain integrations, social automation, and the content flywheel. Making data beautiful and self-sustaining.

What worked, what didn't, real costs, token counts, prompting strategies, and honest surprises from building a full platform with an AI co-pilot.

From AI-assisted build to AI-operated company. 5 agents, 17 leadership personas, parametric sliders, and the zero-human vision.