The Road from
Human-Run to
AI-Run
I'm 57. I run a multi-seven-figure SaaS company. I'm systematically replacing myself as CTO with AI agents built on £30 Mac Minis. This is the raw, unfiltered documentation of that process.
The Backstory
I started programming in the 1980s. COBOL. Spent decades in tech. Built a SaaS company in aviation compliance — helping airlines track and report carbon emissions. Multi-seven-figure revenue. Six developers. Real customers, real data.
But here's the uncomfortable truth: I'm a terrible programmer. Three years ago I tried to learn Laravel — the framework my own product is built on. Couldn't finish the course. My developers are better than me at every technical task.
So what does a CTO actually do? I'm the bottleneck. Every decision, every code review, every architecture call flows through me. Sixty-hour weeks. No holidays. I'm 57 — I don't have another decade of this in me.
The normal answer: hire a VP of Engineering. £150k/year minimum. My answer: build an AI brain that can do what I do.
The Swarm 🐝
Six machines. Six specialists. One mission: make the CTO redundant.
🧠 The Brain
M4 Mac Mini — Pippin
The orchestrator. Coordinates all agents, manages comms, plans sprints, and talks to me on Telegram. The mind of the operation.
📊 The Auditor
2012 Mac Mini — Database
Sits on a replica of our production database. 9 million flight records. Query analysis, data validation, performance monitoring.
🔗 The Warden
2012 Mac Mini — Integration
Handles support tickets, WhatsApp integration, error monitoring. The connective tissue between systems.
💰 The Comptroller
2012 Mac Mini — Finance
Tracks development costs, project ROI, business metrics. The numbers machine for exit planning.
⚖️ The Counsel
2012 Mac Mini — Compliance
Vector database of every aviation emission regulation. EU-ETS, UK-ETS, CORSIA, SAF. The AI compliance brain.
🛡️ The Sentry
2012 Mac Mini — Redundancy
Failover, backups, monitoring. The safety net. Because when machines run your company, they'd better not go down.
Traditional VP of Engineering
£150k/year
The Swarm
~$400/month
Hardware: £600 total (one-time) · API costs: ~$400/mo
What You'll See Here
Weekly Episodes
Real builds, real failures, real numbers. What happened this week in the AI transformation of a SaaS company.
Terminal Sessions
Actual code, actual conversations with AI agents, actual debugging. Not sanitised demos — the real thing.
Economics & ROI
What this costs, what it saves, and whether replacing humans with AI agents actually makes financial sense.
The Failures
When agents break things, produce garbage, or hallucinate. Because that happens. A lot.
Go Behind the Scenes
The YouTube channel shows the highlights. Members see everything — raw terminal sessions, config files, unblurred screen recordings, weekly Q&A, and the templates I actually use.
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