The inside story of
building AI employees.

A weekly newsletter documenting what AI employees actually are, how they're built, and what it takes to hire one — written by someone doing it in real time.

Everyone's talking about AI agents. Almost nobody is talking about what it actually takes to make one feel like a real employee. Each issue documents one part of the build: a design decision, a limitation, a capability, or a moment where something didn't work the way I expected. The honest version — including the dead ends.

• → Why one memory layer isn't enough — and the four-layer architecture I built instead
• → The difference between an AI agent and an AI employee (and why it matters)
• → What AI employees can actually do today vs. what's still not there
• → Real design decisions, trade-offs, and dead ends from the build