One-offAgent Team HQ
Start with five specialists and a lead.
One job. One workflow. A team to help.


Professionals, consultants and founders. Learning by building.

One-offStart with five specialists and a lead.
One job. One workflow. A team to help.
Four weeksInherit a working org. Build your own department.
Learn the system by making it yours.
AdvancedBuild the builders.
An agent workforce that builds and improves itself.

Four weeks. Learn the system by working inside it.

Tell it what you want. Give it the relevant material.
Explain what done looks like.
01A clear outcome
02Useful context
03Room to work
You choose the destination.

Using a computer, across a set of test tasks.
Approximate time per task in OpenAI’s OSWorld 2.0 latency simulation.
For us, this feels full-stack: it can build what you see and the code underneath.

“same thing in the same layour but 10 difernt ways?”Hunter, actual direction









ImageGen makes the visual assets.
Arrange the pieces. Animate the opening.
ElevenLabs makes four effects and the music.
Harness: the tools and workflow that let the workforce act.

Ten seconds, shown in twenty frames.

Music and custom effects made with ElevenLabs.

“keep the lime in the middle but make it saras name and picture and then move me over to the left and have it in the orange”Hunter, actual direction
One clear correction.
The result changes.

Swap Hunter and Sara

Governance: you set the direction and decide what needs your say.

The opening film
Hunter chooses the look.
Brand, portraits and references.
Context engineeringWorkers handle parts of the job.
Image prompts, code and sound tools.
Astra directs the production.
Watch it. Adjust the timing.
The agent directs the tools. Images become moving layers. Sound gets its own prompts and timing.

Agent Workforce: people, roles, tools and review. Solid: used here. Dotted: available roles.

A lesson people can follow.
Sara’s research and our examples.
Context engineeringBuild, audio and review workers.
HTML, diagrams and browser checks.
Astra carries the build forward.
Inspect every card. Revise.
A workforce makes the whole thing. Research, examples, media and review become one teachable lesson.


Ben Davis built a world
he could walk through.


Human Atlas
by @ashebytes
Explore the layers, then watch them come apart.
Original postExplore the appApp preview: Human Atlas / BodyParts3D (CC BY 4.0)

Agents make the rough cut.
You make the adjustments.
Keep a useful correction as a check for the next edit.

Video Studio
Make one requested change.
The project keeps its layers.
Context engineeringA person and agent share the work.
Editor controls and saved edits.
Astra works through the editor.
Check the picture, timing and sound.
Make “done” something you can see. Check the edit. Keep useful corrections for the next pass.



Agent Ant Farm
Choose how to meet your team.
Give each role useful context.
Context engineeringMeet the workforce through roles.
Rooms and controls become a harness.
Choose the model behind the work.
Check the work, beyond the game.
Choose the interface that works for you. A room, a chat or a game can be a way into the workforce.

Memory: keep useful context and reviewed lessons. The workforce carries them into the next job.

Give Astra the work that needs its capabilities.
Try a cheaper model. Check whether the result is good enough.
Your files, standards and team can stay when the model changes.
Coding test: Astra used about one-third of Sol’s tokens, but cost about 15% more per task.
Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index, September 9, 2026. Astra at max effort versus GPT-5.6 Sol.

Set the purpose and the boundaries.
Carry useful context into the next job.
Context engineeringGive people and agents clear roles.
Give the team ways to act.
Choose the engine for the work.
Check what came back. Improve it.

This week’s notes
A few decisions.
A changed deadline.
A task list.
A draft you can use
What changed.
What’s next.
What needs an answer.
The next week starts with the same context.

The weekly client update
A useful draft, ready for review.
Notes, tasks and your voice.
Context engineeringDrafting and review have clear jobs.
A repeatable brief and workflow.
Use a model that fits this task.
Flag dates. Check facts and length.
Next week starts with useful context. Reuse the workflow. Add fresh notes. Keep what you learned.

One job.
Your material.
A clear finish line.
Try it with something
you actually need.
