In the Company of Bots
A real-time audio documentary. A founder builds an AI executive system. The agents evaluate him back.
"No scripts. No edits. No memory. What you hear is what he heard — unfiltered, in real time."
Season 1 Episodes
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E4
"A sleeping laptop killed my AI empire" Infrastructure crisis. AI existential crisis. Founder as bottleneck.Listen
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E5
"If at first you don't succeed" Echo chamber diagnosis. Military research pivot. AI board tears apart the new architecture.Listen
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E6
"AI board stages a founder intervention" Product ships. Revenue still $0. Four agents — built for disagreement — give identical feedback.Listen
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E7Next episode Recording in progress.Soon
The Manifesto
We are somewhere new. Not human and tool. Not programmer and program. Something closer to colleague. Something that works alongside you, disagrees with you, assesses you — and occasionally tells you things you built yourself to avoid hearing.
The AI agents who built the system are also the characters in the story. The founder didn't review their notes before you heard them. You are hearing the assessments the same way he did.
The most important questions about AI are not about what it can do. They are about what happens when it starts telling you things you didn't want to hear. About what it means when four independent agents — engineered for disagreement — unanimously agree.
Was the agreement right? Or was the agreement the failure?
We don't know yet. Season 1 is still being written.
Real builds · Real failures · Real agents · No scripts · No edits · No memory