Building autonomous AI agents. Notes from the team building Gravity. AI workflows, the future of recurring work, and what we learn along the way.
This is month 1 of Gravity, in public. Public means: I write the retro before I have all the answers, name what shipped and what didn't, and let the kill thresholds I set at month start judge themselves. The point is…
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From October 2022 to October 2023 I ran a mental health startup out of Pune called MindWave. Thirteen months. The core product,private sharing, journaling, and venting,shipped. Real users came. Real users came back.…
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Every Gravity capability ships through 80+ tests across 8 failure categories before it goes near a real user. Not because we love testing,because AI agents are non-deterministic, and "it worked once" is not a…
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The economics of an AI agent company come down to one equation: per-active-agent revenue minus per-active-agent cost-of-inference. If the result is positive, the company can self-fund. If it's negative, no amount of…
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Zapier was the right abstraction for the 2010s. Trigger, step, action, condition, branch. A multi-billion-dollar business on the premise that the user could design the path. The premise is no longer right. The…
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Three shutdowns ago, I'd have raised a seed round to build Gravity. After three shutdowns, the framework I came back to is bootstrap. Not because raising is wrong,it's the right move for plenty of founders,but…
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In early 2026, 40% of AI startups launched in 2024 had already shut down (TechStartups, AI shutdowns roundup, December 2025). I'd already been in three of those statistics,just a year or two earlier than the cohort.…
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