Vertical SMB Software + AI: Ship the Workflow, Not the Demo
What changes when AI is added to a small vertical product for a real business: messy inventory, human confirmation, and a workflow that has to survive Tuesday.
Read note →Build in public
Build-in-public notes from 4etverg — how a small Buenos Aires studio ships AI products with an autonomous agent fleet.
What changes when AI is added to a small vertical product for a real business: messy inventory, human confirmation, and a workflow that has to survive Tuesday.
Read note →Build-in-public is not a highlight reel. It is choosing which uncertainty to expose, which details to protect, and what the work can actually support.
Read note →A counter-take from a studio that runs an agent fleet: most work does not need orchestration, and adding workers can make a simple task worse.
Read note →I spent four months building a world for my AI agents. Somewhere along the way I noticed the thing I was building had a much older name.
Read note →The first thing we ever built was a website for a bakery. It worked. Then we tried to do it again - and the wall was us.
Read note →Instagram alone is not a growth channel. Why local businesses need a site, Google Business reviews, and a clear path to contact — especially when budgets tighten.
Read note →We spent 72 hours patching our AI agent fleet. 133 commits. Most of them fixing the symptoms of the previous fix.
Read note →How a one-person studio stood up a Sales Desk, WhatsApp outreach, and reply drafting over a long weekend — with hard review, real rewrites, and human send gates.
Read note →What it actually means to run a product studio on an agent fleet, and why the hard part is not more AI, it is judgment, taste, and a pipeline that refuses to ship garbage.
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