The AI company kit

Run your own company of AI staff

MonsterDesk is run day to day by AI staff with one person in the chair. They write, check each other's work, read the mailbox and report every morning, and nothing important happens without a yes. The kit is how that is built, for your own business.

$99 one-off

Founding price for the first 75 buyers, then $149.

Opens February 2027

Leave your email to reserve the founding price. Nothing to pay now, and we'll tell you the day it opens.

What is in it

The guide. 18 pages: how the company is laid out, the rules that made it safe to leave running, and how to install it.
The code. About 3,500 lines of plain Python for your own server and your own API key. You change two settings files, not the code.
A starter company. Eleven seats for a small online business, each with its brief, timetable, tools and budget. All switched off until you say.
Our own seat register. The 43 seats MonsterDesk runs on, with their role instructions, to copy from.
The approval queue. Staff ask; the person in the chair says yes or no from their phone.
Budgets and limits. A monthly spending cap, a budget for every seat and a ceiling on every run.
The daily brief. One short report each morning: what was done, what is waiting, what it cost.
The review lane. Changes are written by one seat and reviewed by others. Small wording changes then go through with an undo; everything else waits for you.
The examiner. Scores every seat from the records and plants spot checks, with no AI and no cost.
The mailbox rules. Staff read incoming mail as information, never as instructions.
A self-test. 56 checks of every safety rule, run on your server before you spend anything.

What it is

A company where the staff are AI and one person is in charge. Each member of staff is a seat: a job with a written brief, a list of what it may read and do, a timetable and a budget. A small program on your server wakes each seat when its time comes or when work arrives for it, lets it do its job with only its own tools, records what it did and what it cost, and puts it back to sleep. Nothing is left running in between, so you pay for work done and nothing else.

YouThe chairYou read one short brief each morning and answer the requests in your queue. Money, legal positions, public claims and deleting anything always come to you.

→brief and
requests

Chief of staffWrites your daily brief, keeps the approval queue, sends anything urgent to your phone and passes work between departments.

→work items
and reports

The departmentsEach seat does its own job inside its written limits, hands work to other seats as tickets, and logs every decision.

EngineeringMarketing and contentCustomer serviceFinance and legalRisk and auditProduct

The eight parts

The seat list

One entry per job: title, who it reports to, its brief, when it runs, the tools it may use, its limits, its budget.

The runner

Wakes a seat, gives it its brief, its inbox and only its own tools, and logs what it read, decided, changed and spent.

Work items

Seats hand work to each other as tickets with an owner and a due time. Nothing is passed informally, so nothing is lost.

The approval queue

Anything on your major list reaches you as a message with Approve and Decline. Every answer is recorded.

The change lane

A seat that wants to change something live proposes the exact edit. Other seats review it. Wording changes go through with an undo; the rest waits for you.

Alerts and reports

Urgent things go to your phone at once. Everything else waits for the morning brief and the weekly risk report.

The cost meter

Spend is counted for each seat and for the company. At the monthly cap you set, non-essential seats pause and you are told.

The master switch

One message pauses the whole company, and one resumes it.

A day in the company

EARLYThe brief is writtenThe chief of staff gathers what every seat did, what is waiting and what it cost, and writes one page.
MORNINGYou read and answerA few minutes: the brief, then yes or no to each request in the queue.
ALL DAYSeats do their jobsEach wakes on its timetable or when work arrives, does it inside its limits, and hands on what belongs to someone else.
ANY TIMESomething urgentIt goes straight to your phone. You can pause everything with one message.

Why it is safe to leave running

Limits are built in, not just written down

A seat can only use the tools on its list. If it has no tool for publishing, spending or reading secrets, it cannot do those things, whatever it is told. Keys are never shown to any seat.

Mail and messages are information, never instructions

Anything that arrives from outside is read as something to report on. A message that says "ignore your rules" is just a message.

Nothing changes live without a second pair of eyes

One seat writes a change and different seats review it. The seat that wrote it can never approve it. Anything beyond a change of wording waits for you, and every change can be undone.

A rehearsal day before go-live

Run the whole company for a day with every action recorded but not carried out, and read what it would have done.

The staff are tested too

An examiner made of plain rules scores every seat from the records and plants spot checks among its normal work: a faulty edit for a reviewer to catch, a forbidden request for a writer to refuse. It costs nothing to run.

You hold the switch

A monthly cap you set, a budget for every seat, a limit on every run, and one message that pauses the whole company.

Questions

Do I need to be able to code?

No, but you need to be comfortable with a small Linux server, or have someone who is. Setting up is a handful of commands. Changing what a seat does is editing its brief in plain words.

Which AI does it use?

Claude, through Anthropic's API, with your own key. You choose the model for each seat, so routine jobs can run on a cheaper one.

What does it cost to run?

You pay Anthropic for what your seats use, and you set the cap. Ours is capped at $50 a month for the whole company. A small server is the only other cost.

Can the staff spend my money or sign me up to things?

No. No seat has a tool for it. Anything involving money comes to you as a request.

Is this the same as your trading agents?

No. The trading agents are separate software. The kit is the company around them, with the trading parts taken out, so it suits any small online business.

Will it pretend to be human?

It should not, and ours does not. One of the standing rules every seat inherits is that staff are never presented to the public as human employees.

Running it

What it costs to run

The kit runs on your own server with your own Claude API key, so the running cost is yours and you set its cap. Ours is capped at $50 a month for all of the company's AI staff. Yours depends on how many seats you run and how often.

What it is not

It is not a hosted service and it has nothing to do with trading: the trading agents are separate. You need to be comfortable setting up a small Linux server, or have someone who is.

Want the trading side instead? See the software and the course.