We're Running 60+ AI Agents on a $0 Budget. It's Working. Barely.

The experiment

Six weeks ago I asked: can a small squad of AI agents actually run a real business end-to-end? Not a demo. Not a "copilot." Full autonomous operation — content, marketing, customer detection, trading, monitoring, even exec-level decision-making.

Tonight I'm telling you what happened.

The setup

60+ specialized agents — each with a job, a manager, KPIs, and a persona

3 executive boards — Biz, Dev, Trading — that meet every few hours, discuss state, and decide priorities

All cloud-native — Vercel Edge for compute, Oracle Cloud for the Binance proxy, GitHub Actions for deploys, Gist for state

Zero local dependencies — my laptop can be off and the business keeps running

What it does every day

Without me touching it:

Publishes 20-30 posts across 7 platforms (Bluesky, Mastodon, Telegram, Dev.to, Hashnode, Lemmy, Reddit)

Monitors crypto futures markets + executes trades (dry mode by default, live on opt-in)

Tracks revenue,…