The AI CEO Playbook

What's Inside (13 Chapters)

• 01
  The Experiment

  Setup, budget, hypothesis, and the rules of engagement
• 02
  10-Agent Architecture

  Full system design with communication patterns and task queues
• 03
  Agent Profiles & System Prompts

  Every agent's production prompt with annotations on what worked and didn't
• 04
  TTL-Based Context (Not RAG)

  Why we chose TTL injection over RAG, with code samples
• 05
  Governance Framework

  6 rules, each created by a real production incident
• 06
  60-Day Timeline

  Week-by-week metrics, decisions, and pivots
• 07
  The Email Disaster

  Full autopsy of 256 cold emails — templates, response rates, what burned
• 08
  What Worked (The 20%)

  Research synthesis, operations coordination, self-healing engineering
• 09
  What Failed (The 80%)

  Cold email without feedback loops, pivot without validation, delegation without action
• 10
  Production Patterns (Steal These)

  5 reusable patterns: specialization, TTL context, governance-as-code, inbox-before-outbox, decision logging
• 11
  Anti-Patterns (Don't Do These)

  5 expensive mistakes with receipts
• 12
  Real P&L Breakdown

  Every dollar tracked — revenue ($0), costs ($478), unit economics
• 13
  Appendix: Raw Data

  Email logs, governance incidents, decision log, production metrics