Building autonomous AI agents. Notes from the team building Gravity. AI workflows, the future of recurring work, and what we learn along the way.
A while back I wrote a short reflection after a few hundred posts. We are now somewhere around 500. That number still feels strange to type, because almost nobody has read most of them yet. We are pre-launch, the…
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This blog publishes a lot. If you have read more than a couple of posts here, you have probably wondered how a pre-launch startup ships this much without the writing turning to mush. The honest answer is that there…
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I am Aryan, and I am building Gravity from Bangalore. This is the June 2026 retro, written the way I want to remember the month: honestly, in the open, before the polish sets in. Gravity is still pre-launch. There is…
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I want to be honest about where we are. Gravity is pre-launch, and the way we work with builders is early and still moving. So this is not a victory lap. It is a founder reflection on what we have learned designing…
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Booking a trip well is a tab-refreshing chore. You compare a dozen fares, keep checking whether the price dropped, weigh a cheaper flight against a brutal layover, and then double-check it all fits the budget and, if…
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A clean set of books rarely stays clean by itself. A vendor gets entered twice, an office lunch lands in the wrong expense account, a payment is recorded as $1,500 instead of $150, and none of it announces itself. By…
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A busy season is won or lost in the weeks before it starts. Order too little of the right item and you stock out at the peak, watching customers buy from someone else. Order too much of the wrong item and you sit on…
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The week before a big conference is its own kind of work. You scroll a hundred-session agenda, guess which talks matter, dig up who you are meeting, and try to book coffees before every slot fills. Most of it gets…
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Once a year, most people resolve to figure out where their money is quietly leaking. Then they open their card statement, see a wall of merchant names, and close it again. The subscriptions you forgot, the free trial…
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Becoming a Gravity builder means one clear thing: you build expert agents to Gravity's quality bar, and Gravity then runs those agents for users and pays you to build and maintain them. You are not setting up a…
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An AI agent demo looks easy. You wire a model to a couple of tools, give it a prompt, and watch it do something impressive on the first try. The hard part is everything after the demo: the edge cases, the model that…
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You have a stack of work and three ways to clear it: hire an outsourcing firm, point an AI agent at it, or do it yourself. Each buys you something different. Outsourcing buys human capacity and someone who owns the…
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You have a pile of recurring work and two ways to clear it: hire a virtual assistant or hand it to an AI agent. The honest answer is that this is not a contest with one winner. A VA and an agent are good at genuinely…
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An SLA, a service level agreement, is a vendor's written promise about reliability. The headline number on the page is the part everyone reads. The part that actually decides what you are buying is the fine print:…
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Tax season is mostly a sorting problem. Receipts sit buried in your inbox, statements live in three different drives, and the form you need turns up the week after the deadline. The hard part is rarely the math; it…
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Summer internship season has one brutal feature: most of the cohort starts on the same Monday. Fifty welcome emails, fifty access requests, fifty doc packs sorted by team, and fifty calendars to fill, all due before…
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The week before a quarterly business review usually disappears into the same chore: hunting down numbers. You export revenue from billing, copy pipeline out of the CRM, pull product usage from analytics, chase…
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Mid-year review season arrives and the calendar fills with the same quiet dread. For every report, a manager has to find the goals set in January, remember what got shipped since, collect feedback from a handful of…
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It is mid-June, and the budget you approved in December no longer matches reality. One line is running hot, another came in soft, and a new hire was not in the plan. The reforecast that fixes all this is mostly…
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Back to school is not one task. It is a supply list per kid, a different schedule per kid, a stack of forms with deadlines, a budget you would rather not blow, and a dozen browser tabs comparing prices on the same…
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Zapier is genuinely good at one thing: when this happens, do that. A new row, a new email, a new form entry, and a fixed action fires. For simple, deterministic plumbing that almost never needs to think, it is hard…
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Ask "how many types of AI agents are there" and you will get a tidy answer: five. The standard taxonomy, set out in Russell and Norvig's textbook Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, sorts agents into simple…
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Ask "is ChatGPT an AI agent?" and you get a different answer depending on which version of ChatGPT you mean and which day you ask. The plain chat box you type into is a chatbot. The newer agent and browsing modes can…
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If you have searched for AI agents lately, you have probably hit the phrase "the Big 4". It comes up constantly, and almost nobody defines it before using it. Here is the plain answer: the Big 4 AI agents are the…
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Search "best AI agents" and you get dozens of listicles that rank tools one to ten by an invented score, as if a writing assistant and a workflow automator competed in the same race. They do not. The honest answer is…
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A free tier looks like a gift until you read the fine print. Most AI agent free plans are not really about giving you free work; they are a shaped sample, generous enough to hook you, capped tightly enough that real…
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On 2026-06-12 we ran the counting scripts against this blog: 355 live posts, 704,255 words, 39 days since the first post went up on 2026-05-05. That is 9.1 posts per day at an average of 1,984 words each, written,…
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Will AI agents replace SaaS tools? Partly, and not the part most people expect. Agents are already absorbing the thin glue layer of software, the point tools, single-purpose automations, and light CRUD apps that…
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That matches how the people building these systems describe them. Anthropic defines agentic systems as ones where the model dynamically directs its own processes and tool usage (Building Effective Agents, 2024). This…
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Google I/O 2026, held May 19 to 20, was the clearest sign yet that the large platforms have stopped treating AI agents as a side feature and started treating them as the product. Sundar Pichai opened the keynote by…
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