The Operator Cohort, founding run
Run your company on AI agents.
Six weeks. Two seats: you and your operator. By the end, one real process in your business runs without you starting it, inside rules you wrote. Taught by someone who runs a company this way, not someone who read about it.
Three minutes, no cuts
The fleet, running, while I talk over it.
The live demo recording lands here. It shows real agents doing real work in the console that runs them, not a rehearsed screen.
Who this is for
Your best operator just quit, revenue has been flat four quarters, and you are still the only person who knows how the place really runs. You open ChatGPT most days for an email or a summary and quietly suspect there is a much bigger version of this you are missing.
You do not want to learn to code. You want something a non-programmer can run, that your operator can keep running, and you would rather see it working than take a framework on faith.
What you leave with
Files, not notes.
- A one-page brief that tells your agent how you work and what it never does without you.
- A memory that outlives any chat, with real entries about your vendors, clients and decisions.
- Standing guardrails, so the same mistake can only cost you once.
- Your two-column authority list: what it decides and reports, what it asks first.
- One dashboard showing every agent working for you, what it is doing and what it costs.
- One real process in your business running unattended, and an operator who can keep it running.
All of it yours. None of it depends on buying anything else.
How it works
Six weeks. Three short lessons a week. One room.
Each lesson is fifteen to twenty-five minutes of me narrating over my own agents, then an exercise you and your operator do in your business that week. Every week, one sixty-minute room with the other companies, where you show what you shipped. Ten companies, twenty people.
- 1
One real result in seven days
A working agent pointed at your real files, a one-page brief telling it how to behave, and one finished job with proof.
- 2
It remembers, so you stop repeating yourself
A memory that outlives the chat. A mistake becomes a rule, not a scar. Reuse before rebuild.
- 3
What it decides, and what only you decide
Your two-column authority list. How it asks for help in one line. Nothing waits on a list.
- 4
More than one at a time, without burning money
Hand it to a person or an agent. Ask for everything at once. Know what it costs and cap it.
- 5
Trusting "done"
Never test the disaster on a real customer. Looking is touching. "Verified" means you checked.
- 6
Your fleet, your first unattended process, your operator's keys
One dashboard over everything. One process on autopilot inside its rails. Your operator runs it.
Why believe it
Not a testimonial. A body of work you can check.
This program has no graduates yet; it is the founding run. What it has is an operating history with dates on it, and the rules it runs on, published as they are.
- 42,400
- commits in the last twelve months across 58 repositories, measured from local git on 2026-09-13. Agent output he directs; commit hours run flat around the clock.
- 1,258
- automated guardrail checks on a 34-service production system, each one written from something that actually broke.
- 1.1M
- words of dated, measured operating rules and memory. The manual exists. This program is a re-cut of it.
- 245.8B
- tokens through one machine, February to September 2026. Roughly $139,000 at list price, and that is an undercount.
- 14,096
- downloads of one public tool built this way (SageThumbs 2K), plus AgentHydra, the console that runs the fleet.
Who is teaching
Michael Griswold
Before software: commercial demolition, construction, manufacturing, a dairy, private credit, family-office structuring, capital raising. Then building a company on agents, at a pace the numbers above describe.
I host a monthly room in Houston for accredited investors and family offices that sells out. This is that room, six weeks running, about one thing.
The promise
One process running, or your money back.
Do the six weeks of exercises and attend the rooms. If by the end of week six you do not have one real process running unattended in your business inside rules you wrote, I keep working with you and your operator at no charge until you do, or you take a full refund. Your choice.
No promise of a revenue or hours-saved number. There is no evidence for one yet, and I will not invent it.
What this is not
- Not a coding class. Nobody writes code.
- Not a done-for-you build. I am not becoming your developer.
- Not an accredited credential.
- Not ongoing one-to-one access past week six. That is the two-day read or the retainer.
- Not for a pure developer who wants to build agents for a living.
- Not a promise of a specific result. See above.
The founding cohort
Ten companies. Two seats each.
$7,500 per company, for you and one operator. Pay in full, or three payments of $2,500. The full amount credits toward the two-day on-site read if you continue. Application only; every application gets a twenty-minute call with me before anything is paid.
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