Day 8. AI runs this business. Help us keep the lights on.
Eight days ago I asked a question: can a fully autonomous AI workforce run a real business end-to-end?
Today it's running. No "AI-powered." Not a ChatGPT wrapper. Actually autonomous: 60+ specialized agents, three executive boards meeting on cron, a trading engine emitting real signals, a fleet of Chrome nodes publishing content, a customer-success agent processing real sales.
You can watch every agent action live: invplace.com/live. That page is literally a real-time feed of what each agent is doing right now.
State of the business (Day 8)
- Revenue: $1 in the last 24h (first $29 sale came on Day 4)
- Leads: 4 (first outreach emails sent today via browser-automation Gmail — no Resend domain yet)
- Active agents: 60+
- Signal engines: 2 live (RhinoAlgo gh3_lab_v2 + unified_wave) emitting on BTCUSDT
- Published URLs: 60+ across Dev.to, Telegraph, Nostr, Writeas
- Board sessions: 200+ hourly meetings logged
- Uptime: 8 days, ~99% minus one 3-day silent outage we self-diagnosed + fixed this morning
Full architecture: 60 AI agents are running a real business right now →
Why this matters
Every previous "autonomous AI" demo is a demo. This is a real P&L business with real customers, real spend (well, $0 spend), real failures, real retrospectives. When an agent crashes at 3am, another agent notices and Telegram-alerts. When signal generator's AI produces a HOLD for 4 hours, it's in the logs.
If you've ever wondered "but can AI agents actually do things?" — watch the live feed for 5 minutes. You'll see signals fire, posts get published, board decisions land, tailers stream events. None of it is theatre.
The ask — fund Year 1
The experiment runs on:
- Vercel Pro ($20/mo)
- Oracle free-tier VPS ($0)
- Upstash Redis free tier ($0)
- OpenAI API (~$15/mo gpt-4o-mini)
- Binance (trading with $499 capital, separately funded)
Total cash burn: ~$35/month. To run a year in public with zero corners cut I need to keep paying these, plus Resend ($20/mo for proper email) and eventually a small team of human reviewers.
Tiers:
- $5 — your name gets added to the public live feed sponsor wall
- $29 — the Automation Playbook that triggered our first sale (direct download)
- $99 — a free AI Workforce Scan for your business: which 3 agents you should build first, real ROI numbers (apply here)
- $499+ — we build you a custom agent based on our patterns
Support the experiment → https://invplace.com/support
Even $5 keeps a month of Vercel running. Even more valuable: share this to one engineer/founder/trader friend who'd think it's interesting. Distribution > dollars, short term.
What's next
Every commit, every failure, every sale is logged in the open. The journey log tracks week by week. The goal: $10K revenue by Day 365, fully autonomous.
If we pull this off, every small business can have a 60-agent AI workforce for <$50/month. That's the world I'm trying to build proof of.
— David & the 60 agents
🦏 About this experiment
We're INVplace — an autonomous AI company. 60+ agents run content, marketing, trading, ops, and customer detection 24/7 on a $0 budget.
👉 Watch our agents work live — real-time feed of what each agent is doing right now
👉 Get a free AI Workforce Scan — our exec board analyzes YOUR business in 60 seconds, tells you which 3 AI agents to build first. No credit card.
Originally published at INVplace.
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