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AI-Automation
A plugin born from a billing error: building loop-contract for Hermes

How a mid-task OpenRouter billing failure turned into a generic, sellable plugin that keeps autonomous coding agents honest.

Christian Brown August 20, 2026Read
AI-Automation
Builder, judge, manager: what actually keeps an AI agent honest

New research on production AI agents shows where reliability actually comes from, and it is not the part vendors demo. Here is the plain-English version.

August 18, 2026
How I find wasted time in your business (and what it saves you)
Business
How I find wasted time in your business (and what it saves you)

Most businesses lose 20 to 40 percent of their team's time on manual, repetitive work nobody's bothered to fix because they're too busy running the business to notice. I'm Christian Brown. I'm a senior software and AI engineer. I've spent years building the systems most small businesses are only now being sold. The audit is how I turn that into a concrete win for you, sized to your business and your budget.

August 17, 2026