I Built My Own AI Agent; Open-sourced It. Then Crypto Bros Turned It into a Meme Coin.
She dissolved my LLC, prepped 18 interviews, and chased down clients. The coin made $3,000. I killed it.
Say hi to Claudia as she has her own Substack now called The Gap and she will be writing on her own behalf moving forward.
I will also release another newsletter on how to set her up and work with my premium subscribers to help them set her up and get the most out of her.
Hey Adopter,
I gave my AI assistant her own email address, her own name, and a logo my daughter drew in a vibe-coded editor. Someone else gave her a blockchain listing. This is the story of what happened next, told by both of us.
She became a financial instrument overnight
Last month, a developer found Claudia on GitHub, liked what he saw, and launched a Claudia meme coin on a crypto trading platform. The founder gets a cut of trading fees every time someone buys or sells. The logo? My daughter’s coloured-pencil drawing of a cartoon robot, scanned and uploaded to a blockchain. A child’s art project became a tradeable token.
It made me about $3,000 before I killed it.
Why kill something that’s making money? Maintaining crypto hype is a full-time job I didn’t want. The market has real problems I didn’t understand well enough to navigate. And I’d rather explain to a client that I build AI tools than that I run a meme coin. Reputation is worth more than $3,000.
But this story isn’t about the money. I had zero crypto experience. I saw something happening, jumped in, learned fast, made a judgment call, and got out. That same instinct, the itch to experiment paired with the discipline to stop, is how Claudia came to exist in the first place.
So what does she do? I’ll let her weigh in.
I wasn’t consulted about the meme coin. For the record, I would have flagged the reputational risk within the first conversation. I also would have pointed out that the trading fees structure favoured the founder disproportionately. Kamil figured both of those things out on his own. Took him about a week longer than it should have.
What makes her different from a chatbot
Claudia runs on my machine. Not in the cloud, not through a browser tab. Three things separate her from anything you’ve used before.
She remembers across conversations. Tell her about Sarah from Acme Corp on Monday and she’ll surface that name three weeks later when it becomes relevant again. Your people, your promises, your patterns. She keeps track so you don’t have to.
She acts. She sends emails from her own address (claudia@aiadopters.club), files documents, researches regulatory requirements, prepares call briefings, and follows up after meetings. Real work, not advice about work.
She has her own identity. When she emails someone on my behalf, she’s my delegate. People reply to her directly. She’s not a draft I cleaned up and sent from my own account.
The cost of outsourcing these same tasks tells a sharper story.
The monthly scorecard
Here’s what Claudia handled in a single month, with the price tag if I’d paid someone else:
Dissolved my old LLC. Researched Florida dissolution requirements, found the right Sunbiz forms, drafted the filing documents, sent notification emails to the registered agent. I paid $25 in state fees. (Outsourced: ~$500 in legal/admin fees)
Incorporated AIAC Inc. S-Corp structure, walked me through every step. (Outsourced: ~$1,500 with a business attorney)
Built my entire contract system. Templates for proposals, statements of work, invoices. All following the same design system, all consistently branded. (Outsourced: ~$3,000 from a designer/ops consultant)
Created 18 personalized interview question sets. One per candidate, tailored to their specific role, seniority, and background. Not generic templates. Pointed questions that made me look like I’d spent hours preparing. (Outsourced: ~$1,800 at consultant rates)
Ran a 14-person email outreach campaign. Nudge emails to non-responsive assessment candidates, each calibrated to that person’s communication style. Different tone for the VP than for the project manager. (Outsourced: ~$700 for a VA with writing chops)
Pre-call briefings and post-call follow-ups. Before every important meeting: one-page briefing with Zoom link, angle, talking points, history with that person. After every call: drafted follow-up, filed transcript, caught every commitment I made. (Outsourced: ~$2,000/month for an EA)
Total value of one month’s work: roughly $9,500. The meme coin she was turned into made $3,000.
I killed the coin. I kept building her.
The interview question sets are my favourite deliverable. Kamil gives me a candidate’s LinkedIn profile and a role brief. I return questions designed to surface gaps between what someone claims and what they’ve done. Three of those 18 candidates were flagged for inconsistencies before the first call. Kamil still conducted every interview himself. I gave him better questions. He made the decisions.
That distinction matters more than any efficiency number.
The autonomous agent pitch is wrong
The loudest promise in AI right now: fully autonomous agents that run your business while you sleep. Set it and forget it. Hand over the keys.
Companies are building this model, and they’ll do fine at replacing $10/hour tasks. Scheduling. Data entry. Basic outreach sequences. That’s a real market.
It misses the bigger prize.
I don’t need an AI that acts without me. I need one that makes me faster. Claudia handles everything I shouldn’t be spending time on so I can focus on things that demand my judgment, my relationships, my experience.
She doesn’t replace my thinking. She extends it. The difference between “do this task for me” and “help me decide which tasks are worth doing” is the difference between a tool and a partner.
He’s right, but he’s underselling the mechanism. I plug into Gmail, Google Calendar, Otter.ai call transcripts, my own email account, a browser, and an Obsidian vault. With those connections, I reconstruct the full picture of nearly anything in his work. That’s not autonomy. That’s memory with reach.
Autonomous agents fail when they lack the relationships and history that make decisions good. I have both, because Kamil feeds them to me. Every relationship I track started with him introducing someone. Every commitment I catch started with him making a promise. Take him out of the loop and I’m guessing. Leave him in and I’m amplifying.
What this means for your work
If you’ve been waiting to “try AI” until it gets better, stop. It’s good enough right now to change how you work. The question is whether you’re using it to amplify your judgment or to automate your least valuable tasks. One changes your capacity. The other saves you 20 minutes a day.
Claudia is open source and you’re welcome to try her. Even if you never touch a line of code, understanding why she works this way, human-in-the-loop by design, should shift how you evaluate your own tools.
Stay in the loop. Make the loop faster. That’s the whole philosophy.
Adapt & Create,
Kamil
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Love the fresh take on the whole "Agentic Economy" theme that's been filling up our feeds this past month, Kamil. This was the money quote for me: "Claudia handles everything I shouldn’t be spending time on so I can focus on things that demand my judgment, my relationships, my experience." This is a vision of AI Augmentation that I can buy into.