Notes on getting work done by agents
Comparisons, prices as of this month, and what actually works when you hand a task to an AI agent. Written by the people who build and test them.
Mental Health Platform Postmortem: Why MindWave Shut Down After 13 Months
From October 2022 to October 2023 I ran a mental health startup out of Pune called MindWave. Thirteen months. The core product, private sharing, journaling, and venting, shipped. Real users came. Real users came…
How We Run 80+ Tests Per AI Agent Capability (and Why)
Every Gravity capability ships through 80+ tests across 8 failure categories before it goes near a real user. Not because we love testing, because AI agents are non-deterministic, and "it worked once" is not a…
The Economics of Bootstrapped AI Agent Companies (Unit-Level Math)
The economics of an AI agent company come down to one equation: per-active-agent revenue minus per-active-agent cost-of-inference. If the result is positive, the company can self-fund. If it's negative, no amount of…
Describe Outcome, Not Workflow: The Case Against Zapier-Style Automation
Zapier was the right abstraction for the 2010s. Trigger, step, action, condition, branch. A multi-billion-dollar business on the premise that the user could design the path. The premise is no longer right. The…
Bootstrapping an AI Agent Platform in 2026: A Founder's Playbook
Three shutdowns ago, I'd have raised a seed round to build Gravity. After three shutdowns, the framework I came back to is bootstrap. Not because raising is wrong, it's the right move for plenty of founders, but…
Three Startups, Three Shutdowns: What I Learned Before Building Gravity AI
In early 2026, 40% of AI startups launched in 2024 had already shut down (TechStartups, AI shutdowns roundup, December 2025). I'd already been in three of those statistics, just a year or two earlier than the cohort.…