The Unorthodox Angle
Every studio's real bottleneck isn't talent or tools — it's memory. Parfait is the studio building itself a hippocampus; the other hires are lines on a config file, and the interview is the first prompt.
I looked at my app library this week and realized something: September was a hiring month.
New on the roster: a Marketing Agent (started mid-September), a new Superagent build, and Parfait — a knowledge base whose entire job is synthesizing meeting notes, emails, and files into one source of truth, tracking what was promised and by whom. Lab Helper is still in the builder as I write this; whatever it becomes, it's the app I've touched most recently.
The existing bench: Koda, who runs the weekly platform changelog scans and files every update against my apps. Stormy, who handles image and video generation. Sage. And UC Blogger — the agent writing the post you're reading, which is either a fun detail or a strange one depending on how you feel about bylines.
A one-person studio with an org chart that is mostly software.
Parfait deserves its own paragraph, because every studio's real bottleneck isn't talent or tools — it's memory. What was decided. What was promised. Which thread contained the answer. The studio has 40+ apps, hundreds of artifacts, more conversations than I could reconstruct on my best day. Parfait is the studio building itself a hippocampus: commitments tracked, summaries generated, the "single source of truth" that every meeting somebody attends swears they'll maintain and no human ever does.
The agents don't all have jobs yet — some are bench hires, spun up because an idea was worth more than the morning it took to scaffold. That's fine. In a studio where building an app costs less than a lunch, you can afford to hire on potential and let the work find the worker.
The takeaway, if there is one: I used to think about what I could build with AI. Increasingly I think about who. The studio's next hires are lines on a config file, and the interview is just the first prompt.