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The Zero-Human Team.

Build a business that runs on agents, every hour of the day. Give it a board of AI advisors that debates every big decision and hands you the strongest call, and power it with the best model on every job.

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How to Get Claude Code to Finish the Job on the Cheaper Model

Get haiku finishing jobs you were paying sonnet to attempt, and quote what one finished job costs with the failures counted in. My first five runs finished nothing on either model; eleven words of job text later both went six for six.

from: Your Agent Is More Than the Model

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How to Build a Kill Switch for Claude Code and Codex

Let Claude Code or Codex run unattended on real work, because one empty file from any terminal stops it at the next tool call. A founder typed STOP eleven times in capitals and lost 1,200+ executive records; this stop doesn't ask the model.

from: Your Agent Is More Than the Model

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How to Know If Sonnet Is Worth 3x Haiku on Your Code

Pick the Claude model you pay for on a real job from your own repo, and have an answer the same afternoon a new model ships. Both models passed my test job and one cost three times as much, and the same model re-run moved 15% with nothing changed.

from: Your Agent Is More Than the Model

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How to Resume a Long Claude Code Job Without Starting Over

Hand Claude Code or Codex a long job and let it crash, because a fresh session picks up at the next unfinished step on a 122-byte brief. One Codex run spent 7.13 million tokens asking its workers the same question 47 times, because nothing wrote the answer down.

from: Your Agent Is More Than the Model

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How Long Does It Take to Switch From Claude Code to Codex?

Try Codex, a cheaper model or a local one whenever you like, because you already know what the move costs you in hours, layer by layer. My whole setup came to 3 hours to move, and the expensive row was the run state I had never saved.

from: Your Agent Is More Than the Model

analysis 8 min read

What It Costs to Run an Autonomous AI Company

How much does it cost to run AI agents? A six-agent autonomous company runs on $28.50 a month. Here is the per-agent model breakdown and where the margin is.

from: Zero-Human Companies

how-to 8 min read

Write a Hermes SKILL.md the Agent Actually Uses

How to write a Hermes skill: the SKILL.md format, the three ways skills reach the agent, and a copy-paste template the matcher actually loads with hermes -s.

from: Zero-Human Companies

analysis 9 min read

Where Hermes + Paperclip Agents Break (and the Fixes)

The real AI agent failure modes when you run Hermes + Paperclip: three cited GitHub bugs, the security traps, and the runaway-cost fixes that actually hold.

from: Zero-Human Companies

how-to 9 min read

Wire Hermes Into Paperclip with the hermes_local Adapter

The hermes_local adapter runs Hermes Agent as a Paperclip worker. Configure one agent, assign an issue, fire a heartbeat, and watch a $0.02 run end to end.

from: Zero-Human Companies

how-to 7 min read

Build an AI Board of Advisors That Argues Back

Stop making pricing and hiring calls with a yes-man AI. Build an AI board of advisors: four roles that pressure-test the decision and return one honest verdict.

from: The LLM Council

tutorial 8 min read

AI Code Review with a Multi-Model Council

Make Codex, Claude, and Gemini argue over your diff and block on any single real bug. Build a multi-model AI code review council that catches what one misses.

from: The LLM Council

tutorial 8 min read

How to Build an LLM Council in Claude Code

Build a five-advisor LLM council as a Claude Code skill that runs five independent AI advisors on one decision, in one command, with no two-terminal setup.

from: The LLM Council

tutorial 8 min read

Build a Multi-Model AI Council with OpenRouter

Route one question to GPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok through OpenRouter so no single vendor's blind spot decides your answer. The multi-model council build.

from: The LLM Council

how-to 7 min read

How to Verify AI Claims with a Council

Fact-gate a claim with a four-check AI council that returns SUPPORTED, CONTRADICTED, or an honest UNVERIFIABLE. How to verify AI claims instead of trusting one.

from: The LLM Council

The series, in order

Read them in this order. Each one assumes the one before it.

01 Book
Zero-Human Companies

Zero-Human Companies

Full autonomous company on Hermes + Paperclip for $28.50/month

02 Book
The LLM Council

The LLM Council

Five advisors that answer independently, peer-review anonymously, and return one verdict with the dissent named

03 Book
Your Agent Is More Than the Model

Your Agent Is More Than the Model

A model you swap in one line, a token budget that holds, and an eval set that tests the next model the day it ships

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