You run the business. Agents run the busywork.
Agent 137 is a one-person AI studio. I find the repetitive work in a business and build AI that handles it — starting with my own. No jargon, no 6-month roadmaps. Systems that work, documented, and yours.
8 questions · a plan on screen · no pitch
What I do
Four ways in, one outcome: work that does itself.
AI Consulting
You don't need more tools — you need a map. I walk through your business with you, find the hours that repeat, and you leave with a plan ordered by payback — not hype.
- →AI audit & action plan
- →Tool choices that fit what you already use
- →Training for you or your team
AI Automation
The rule-based work — moved off your plate. When X happens, Y gets done: no thinking required, which is exactly why it's fast, cheap, and reliable.
- →Inbox & inquiry handling
- →Invoices, reports, reconciliation
- →Lead follow-up that never forgets
AI Development
Apps and websites, built end to end — the kind you see below: assessments, dashboards, client-facing tools. Shipped in weeks, documented, and owned by you.
- →App building
- →Website creation
- →Client-facing assessments & dashboards
AI Agent Management
For the work that needs judgment. Agents plugged into the tools you already use, taught how you actually work — I watch them and keep improving them, and you approve anything that matters.
- →Custom agents on your email, docs & CRM
- →Monitoring, adjustments & your final say
- →Optional maintenance plan
Before / after
Life before AI. Life after AI.
The same Tuesday, in the same business — with and without agents.
Proof
Built, shipped, running.
No mockups, no "case studies" from marketing. Everything below is real — labeled for what it is: live, shipped, or built.
Hermes — a business that runs on agents
My own operating system: an AI agent running on my own private server, connected to my notes, calendar, and phone. It captures voice memos, drafts content, preps my week — and syncs everything to my pocket. I don't sell what I don't use: this is the proof.
Self-hosted VPS · agent framework · vault sync — running since May 2026, ~$2/mo to operate
Five Pillars Assessment
A live web app: 35 questions that adapt as you answer, personalized reports, and a paid 76-question Belief Audit with card checkout — in four languages. Built solo, with AI, in weeks.
Next.js · Supabase · Stripe — live on Vercel, EN/FR/ES/DE
Kosmo Travel — AI accounting dashboard
A travel agency drops two Excel ledgers into the browser and gets an 11-section executive dashboard: revenue, margins, cash flow, projections, payment alerts, anomaly detection. Data never leaves the device. (Recreated view — real client data stays private.)
SheetJS · Chart.js — deployed, in use at a real travel company
World Cup 2026 — the app
A match-day app for the 2026 World Cup — matches, venues, calendar — designed and built solo, with AI, end to end.
Designed & built — solo, with AI
Botika — money, made simple
An accounting and personal-finance app built to be genuinely easy: what comes in, what goes out, and where it goes — without the spreadsheet headache.
Built with AI, end to end
Content engine
A machine that makes YouTube videos end to end — research, script (Claude), voiceover (ElevenLabs), visuals (Kling), thumbnails, upload. No camera, no editor. Eighteen stages, built and documented; first channel launching now.
Python · Claude · ElevenLabs · Kling — 18+ pipeline modules built
Electrix.bike — automated, then sold
An e-bike rental company in South Florida. Online booking, automated payments and delivery logistics — built to run without me at the counter. I sold it; the business still runs today. Proof that good automation outlives its builder.
electrix.bike — founded, automated, sold — live today
How it works
From audit to autopilot, in weeks.
Audit
Free — 8 questions on screen or 30 minutes on a call. We find the tasks eating your week and I tell you what's worth building — including "nothing yet," if that's the truth.
Map
You get a plan ordered by payback: what to automate, what needs an agent, what stays human. One fixed price, agreed before we start.
Build
Days to weeks, not quarters. Wired into the tools you already use, tested on your real work, with you approving anything that matters.
Run
Handed over documented and owned by you — not hostage in my account. Optional maintenance if you'd rather I keep it running.
Who's behind this
Built by an operator, not an agency.
I'm Yannis Goldman Delaruelle. Ten years of automation — building businesses and streamlining them with bots and technology, long before it was called AI. Experience in acquisitions and dispositions, a degree in accounting and finance, my own books kept along the way — I've seen business from every side. I know what running one actually feels like: the inbox that never empties, the invoices, the leads that go quiet.
Today I build with AI every day — and my own business runs on the exact systems I sell. That's the difference: when we work together, you talk directly to the person who builds, in English or French, Miami or Paris.
Fewer clients, deeper work. I'd rather deploy three systems that run for years than sign thirty retainers.
Learn AI — free
Know more than the people selling to you.
Five short reads, written for owners. If you never hire me, these still save you money.
Read 01 · 3 min What an AI agent actually is A chatbot is an employee you talk to all day. An agent is one you brief once. +
A chatbot waits for you to type, thinks, and types back. An agent is given a goal — "sort today's invoices and flag anything unusual," "answer every inquiry within a minute" — then uses tools to get it done: it reads your email, checks your calendar, writes to your spreadsheet, sends the reply. You review the result instead of doing the task.
Agents are built from three parts: a model (the brain), tools (hands — your email, docs, CRM), and instructions (the procedure it follows, in plain language). Not magic: they're wrong sometimes, and they need someone to wire them safely into your real systems. That last part is the job.
Read the full version →Read 02 · 3 min Automation vs. agent They get sold as the same thing. They're not — and the price difference matters. +
Automation is a fixed path: when X happens, do Y. A new lead fills a form → they're added to the CRM → a welcome email goes out. No thinking involved — which is exactly why it's cheap, fast, and nearly bulletproof. An agent handles the steps that need judgment: reading a messy email and deciding what the client actually wants, drafting the reply in your voice, categorizing the expense that fits no rule.
Rule of thumb: if the task fits in a flowchart, automate it. If the flowchart keeps sprouting "well, it depends…" — that's an agent. The best systems mix both: automations move the data, agents make the judgment calls, and a human approves anything that matters.
Read the full version →Read 04 · 3 min What it costs, honestly From $20/month tools to custom builds — the three levels, and the one cost nobody mentions. +
Three levels. Off-the-shelf tools ($20–100/mo): great for personal productivity, but nothing is connected — you're still the glue. Assembled systems (hundreds to a few thousand): automations and agents wired into your inbox, CRM, and accounting — where saving 10 hours a week becomes literal. Custom builds (project pricing): anything your customers touch.
The real cost of AI isn't the subscription. It's the system nobody maintains — or the ten hours a week you never get back. And a system you don't understand is a liability: whoever builds yours should hand it over documented, explained, and owned by you.
Read the full version →Quick guide · 2 min ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini — which AI? They're all capable. The differences matter less than the wiring — and the wiring is the job. +
ChatGPT is the household name and a strong all-rounder. Claude shines on long documents and writing that has to hold your voice. Gemini lives inside Google Workspace, next to your Gmail and Sheets. Any of them can power a real system — the tool is 20% of the result; the other 80% is wiring it into how your business actually runs.
The trap to avoid: five subscriptions that don't talk to each other. Fix one workflow end-to-end first, then expand — a system beats a shopping list.
See where it fits in your business →Quick guide · 2 min Who's automating right now Owners, not tech giants. If your week repeats, you qualify. +
Service businesses — agencies, consultants, trades — start with the inbox and lead follow-up. Commerce — shops, restaurants, e-commerce — automates inquiries, reviews, and the back office. Creators and coaches run content pipelines in their own voice. Companies of 10+ pilot one department, prove one number, then roll it out.
That's exactly the map the free audit draws for your business — eight questions, one concrete first move.
Take the free audit →Questions
Asked every time.
Do I need to be technical to work with you?+
No. If you can describe how you do a task — like you'd train a new hire — that's all I need. You approve results; the wiring is my job. Everything is handed over with plain-language documentation.
What does an engagement cost?+
Consulting starts with a free audit call. Automations typically land in the hundreds to low thousands; custom agents and client-facing builds are scoped as projects. You always get the price before we start — fixed scope, no surprise retainers.
How long does a build take?+
Most automations: under two weeks. Agents and bigger systems: two to six weeks. AI has collapsed build times — the slow part is usually getting your process out of your head, and the audit call handles that.
What happens when the AI gets something wrong?+
We design for it. Anything that touches money or clients gets an approval step — the agent drafts, you tap to confirm. Systems log what they do, and you can always see why a decision happened. Trust is built in stages, not assumed.
Do I own what you build?+
Yes. It runs in your accounts, under your keys, documented so another builder could maintain it if I got hit by a bus. No hostage systems.
α = 1/137 — the constant that lets light talk to matter
Find out what AI would actually do for your business.
Take the 8-question audit and get a plan on screen right now — or email me for the free 30-minute call and we'll map it together. Either way, you leave with a plan.
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