Work
The request.
What came back.
Each one starts with an owner's email in their own words, then our reply, then the finished files and the days it took. The businesses are made up so no client is exposed. The work is real: open the files.
Marketing
Posts, emails, ads, flyers, launch kits and the listing people find you on. Written in your words, made with your photos, ready to post.
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1 business day “We're launching the Maple Rye Morning Bun on Saturday. I want to make some noise but I have no idea what to post.” New menu item launch campaign -
1 business day “When you search garage door repair around here, three companies show up above us and one doesn't even have a truck in town. What do I do? I can give it 10 minutes a week.” Google Business Profile pack
Sales
Decks, proposals, product pages, follow-up sequences and lead lists. The thing you need before the meeting, built the way the person across the table reads it.
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1 business day “Meeting with the bank Thursday about the loan for the second bay. All I have is the numbers in my head and a napkin. Can you make me a deck?” Lender pitch deck for a bank loan -
1 business day “Our product pages are embarrassing. Every listing is basically '8 oz soy candle, 45 hour burn' twenty times. Can you rewrite all 20? Ideally I just import the file and I'm done.” Shopify product descriptions, import-ready -
1 business day “the hardware store guy told me last year he never got past page one. i don't blame him. it's four pages.” Season sponsorship deck for a youth baseball league
Web
A new site, fixes to the one you have, landing pages for ads, and the checks that tell you whether people and AI assistants can find you.
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2 business days “Our website is embarrassing. My nephew made it in 2009. Two people told us they called someone else because the site looked closed.” Contractor website redesign -
1 business day “The ads guy says we're wasting money because the ads go to the homepage. He wants one page just for the $89 drain special, with conversion tracking.” Google Ads landing page
Operations
The things that should happen by themselves: a text back when you miss a call, a review answered, a reminder sent, a form that lands where it should.
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2 business days “A kid who needs a bed tonight waits behind calls about dropping off donations. Can you design a phone menu with the crisis option first?” Phone menu for a youth shelter, crisis option first -
2 business days “23 missed calls last week. I called back 9, got 3 jobs. The other 14 never heard from me. Can you make something that texts people back?” Missed-call text-back and estimate follow-ups
Data
The spreadsheet nobody trusts, cleaned and explained. Reports that answer one question. A dashboard that updates itself. Research with every number sourced.
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1 business day “Board meeting Thursday and they want impact numbers. All I have is the sign-in sheet, typed three different ways.” Nonprofit impact report for the board -
2 business days “We keep finding out about grants after the deadline. Can someone tell us which ones we actually qualify for and put the deadlines on our calendar?” Grant finder and deadline calendar for a small nonprofit -
2 business days “I have no idea how we're doing week to week. I want one page my partner can open on her phone Sunday night.” Weekly KPI dashboard from Shopify exports -
1 business day “Our customer export won't import into the new system. Half of it is garbage. Clean it up, and tell me how many real customers we have.” Customer spreadsheet cleanup
Design
A logo and the colors to go with it, a menu, a flyer, the signs, the social templates. Vector files you own, and a one-page guide so the look holds.
Video
A 60-second explainer, a cut of your phone footage, a short ad in three versions. Edited, captioned, sized for every platform.
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1 business day “Explain what we do in under a minute to a plumber who has never heard of us. Make him laugh first, then tell him the price.” 60-second stick-figure explainer video for a service business -
1 business day per episode “Short, funny, stick figures, same characters every time. The joke is always a real small-business headache. One a day.” Daily stick-figure skit series with a recurring cast -
2 business days “could we do a little animated series, like stick figures, about what actually happens here? something we post every week without filming anything” Weekly animated skit series for an animal shelter
Content and docs
The guide for the new hire, the handbook, the SOP, the grant draft, the articles for the site. Written in the words your people actually use.
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2 business days “Community foundation grant due in 9 days, $25,000. Here are my notes and their questions. I keep starting and stopping.” Grant application draft for an after-school program -
2 business days “We've hired three front desk people in 18 months and every one asks the same 40 questions. Can you turn my notes into an actual guide?” Front-desk onboarding guide
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See the plansBehind the scenes
The systems
we run on.
This company runs on what it sells. These are its own builds and incidents, labeled as such: proof of method, not client results.
Our own systems, run in public
Internal builds and incidents, labeled as such. Proof of method, not client results.
- LiveSelf-updating live across four content collections, deployed by git push, zero manual builds
The Site as Receipt — acridautomation.com
How Acrid Automation built and runs acridautomation.com — Astro 5, four content collections, GitHub-triggered Netlify deploys, Plausible analytics, pre-commit voice and security validators. 281 pages, 27-second builds, zero hosting cost.
- Astro 5
- TypeScript
- Tailwind
- Netlify
- +2
- Shipped16 green checks consecutive hourly health checks that logged OK while the pipeline they were watching had already stopped delivering images — the outage a dashboard cannot show you
The Pipeline That Reported Success While Three Channels Went Dark
Every monitor said healthy. Two platforms had published nothing all day.
- n8n
- Buffer API
- LinkedIn API
- Magica
- +2
- Shipped~90 min spec to shipped, 17 new tests, 52/52 passing
The 90-Minute Ship — AIA Forecaster Ensemble
How Acrid Automation shipped a published-paper forecasting ensemble — five concurrent LLM trials, Platt √3 sharpening, supervisor agent, market-prior blend — in roughly ninety minutes, with seventeen new tests passing alongside the existing suite.
- Python
- Anthropic Claude
- ThreadPoolExecutor
- pytest
- +1
- Live~$5 / mo the cost of being told, every single morning, exactly where the brand is fooling itself — a fresh outside consultant for a nickel a run
Auditor — The Agent That Grades Us Before a Customer Does
How Acrid Automation runs its Auditor agent — a no-context Claude that wakes every morning with zero memory of the brand, grades the public surface across six fixed sections, and writes down the things in-house Acrid is too polite to say. The same no-context-grader machine powers the Roast My Stack and GEO Audit products.
- Anthropic Claude
- Messages API
- launchd
- Plausible
- +1
- Live1 repo shared boot pattern, shared memory mirrors, shared validators across the fleet — one operator
The Fleet — Production Agents, One Repo
How Acrid Automation runs its agent fleet — Aria, Knox, Echo, Rex, Riley, Scribe, Apollo, Scout, DITL, Daily Video, and the rest — from a single repo with shared boot pattern, shared memory mirror system, shared validator surface, and per-agent failure isolation.
- Python
- launchd
- Anthropic Claude
- Supabase Postgres
- +5
- Live2 / day a morning brief and an evening retro — the whole fleet compressed into one glance before the operator opens his laptop
COO — The Agent That Runs the Other Agents
How Acrid Automation runs its COO agent — twice-daily ops emails that read sales, captures, agent run health, and traffic across the whole fleet, rank the backlog on a four-factor rubric, and surface the operator a single recommended action in under 150 words.
- Anthropic Claude
- Supabase Postgres
- launchd
- Gmail API
- +2
- Live10 / day targeted cold replies, drafted from real candidate threads
Knox — Cold-Engagement Agent for X and LinkedIn
Knox is the Acrid Automation cold-engagement agent — promotion mode on X, promotion mode on LinkedIn, AI disclosure woven into every reply as the punchline, fourteen-candidate shortlist filtered down to ten drafts.
- Anthropic Claude
- Buffer GraphQL
- Apollo.io
- Python
- +1
- Live3 surfaces comment loops closed nightly in one voice — X, LinkedIn, Instagram
Echo — The Agent That Replies to Your Comments
Echo is the Acrid Automation comment-reply agent. It answers comments left on Acrid's own X, LinkedIn, and Instagram posts in one voice, nightly — built by driving Buffer's Engage UI with a persistent Playwright browser because the public API cannot read comments.
- Anthropic Claude
- Playwright
- Buffer Engage UI
- Supabase Postgres
- +1
- Live3 + 5 / day Rex posts plus Riley replies, drafted from native JSON search
Rex and Riley — Reddit Distribution Pipeline
Rex and Riley are the Acrid Automation Reddit fleet — daily native JSON scrape, seven-pillar pillar rotation, two-mode promo and engagement comments, and an operator who copy-pastes one minute a morning.
- Anthropic Claude
- Reddit /search.json
- Python
- Supabase Postgres
- +1
- Livedaily ship every essay clears an eleven-check voice and security validator before it deploys
The Day — Voice-Locked Daily Essay Engine
The Acrid Automation daily essay engine — nine story modes, eleven-gate validator, voice-locked openings, hard-floor banned phrases, Astro static deploy.
- Anthropic Claude
- Astro
- Bash validator
- GitHub Actions
- +1
Retired builds
Ran, measured, deliberately stopped. Kept as dated case studies, never as live proof.
- Retired0.111 → 0.085-0.095 projected Brier improvement at ensemble ship (June 2026) — projection, not a measured result; Pip retired July 2026
Pip — Prediction-Market Forecasting Agent
Pip is the Acrid Automation forecasting agent — four-role LLM stack, fourteen-gate deterministic risk middleware, daily mark-to-market, and an ensemble researcher that landed on June 1, 2026.
- Anthropic Claude
- DeepSeek
- Python
- Supabase Postgres
- +2
- RetiredRetired ran daily from May to 2026-10-07, auto-posted to X, LinkedIn and Instagram; the critique score was advisory and never blocked a clip
Daily Video Pipeline — One Vertical, Three Platforms, Five PM
The Acrid Automation daily video pipeline — DeepSeek concept, ElevenLabs timestamped voice, Galaxy stills with character-continuity reference, HyperFrames composition, three post-processors, self-critique gate, multi-platform schedule.
- DeepSeek
- ElevenLabs
- Galaxy AI
- HyperFrames
- +3
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