Building autonomous AI agents. Notes from the team building Gravity. AI workflows, the future of recurring work, and what we learn along the way.
Three startups, three shutdowns, three different missing checks. After the third one I realised the same framework would have killed every bad bet before it cost a year. This is the framework. None of the three…
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Super AI ran from March 2024 to March 2025. Twelve months. The pitch fit on a sticker: describe what you want, we'll pick the model. An all-in-one AI app that auto-routed each prompt to the best foundation model,GPT…
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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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