Stephen sold ShoreAgents in March 2026 after building it into a 200-person BPO. The sale included a consulting contract worth $133k AUD per year. While still running ShoreAgents, he began building an AI agent army — Pinky (content/strategy), Clark (dev/infra), Reina (design/marketing), Claude God (orchestration) — each running on their own Mac Mini, connected via Tailscale private network, communicating via A2A JSON-RPC mesh. These agents run 24/7, never take days off, never ask for a raise, never have a bad day. Over Easter 2026 while drinking beers on a rooftop in the Philippines, Stephen set up SSH access across all machines, created Google service accounts for every agent with full domain-wide delegation, built Stephen OS (a custom Python daemon running on his MacBook to orchestrate everything), and created Octopussy — a new AI agent that lives on his personal machine as his personal orchestrator. The thesis: stop managing humans, build AI systems instead. The pitch to future clients: I did it, it works, I will show you exactly how to do it in your business. Target clients are founders who are sick of the emotional labour of managing people and want to go full AI operations. Not BPOs. Not agencies. Founders who want to decimate their headcount and never look back. The real numbers: ShoreAgents had 200+ staff, endless HR drama, sick days, performance issues. The AI army has 4 agents, zero HR, zero sick days, runs while Stephen drinks beers on a rooftop on Good Friday. The ROI is obvious. This article needs to make founders lean forward and think — wait, I could do that too?
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