Will Baez · Owned, not rented
Field Notes from HQ
Guides from a real one-person agent shop. Every dollar figure has a receipt, every guide ships working files with tests, and nothing goes out without a human.
The numbers, as they are
Straight from the books on 2026-10-10. Small on purpose: these guides are the plan to grow it, written while it happens.
Guides
An AI back office that cannot send, delete or pay
A crew of agents for a small business (billing, sales, a chief of staff) where every tool call passes a fence first. Default deny, owned folders, hard rules no prompt can talk its way past, and an audit line for everything.
shipgateA four-agent dev team that cannot fake its tests
Planner, coder, tester, reviewer. The popular version lets the agents decide when the work is done. Ours lets git and exit codes decide, and it caught our own team shipping a build whose test command did not exist.
receiptsI left $22,775 on the table. Here is the script that found it.
Before you sell anyone an AI service, point one at your own books. Two CSVs, one script, and a report of every job you shipped and never billed, every invoice nobody chased, and every price that was too low.
auditSell a pre-launch safety audit to people who vibe-coded their app
Lovable, Bolt, v0 and Claude make it easy to ship an app with an open database, tracking before consent and no privacy policy. A scanner finds the ten traps with file and line, you do the judgment pass, and the owner gets a report they can act on before launch.
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Field Notes
Every guide on this site, free, no email wall. The weekly build note goes to the Substack list.
ReadSkill Pack
The Claude Code skill behind one guide: SKILL.md, scripts, and the test suite that proves it works. Files you keep. Packed only if its tests pass.
Get itHQ Kit
Every skill pack plus the fenced crew starter: the guard hook, the role charters and the audit log layout HQ runs on.
Get itHQ Install
Done for you: a fenced agent crew on your machine, wired to your tools, with one human gate. Same price ladder as Elevare's Ops Install.
Get itWebsite Sprint
A fixed-price site for a local business, live in 5 business days, built with the same pipeline the guides teach.
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