2026-04-21
A real-world case study in standing up a disaster-recovery AI agent on Azure — the gotchas, the fixes, and why our Hermes helped debug its own runtime.
HermesAzureDRCase StudyAI Agents
↳ Anton Voss
2026-04-11
We dug through 6,905 messages in a SQLite database and found the first words ever spoken to our AI. February 7, 2026, 8:36 AM.
AIOrigin StoryMemorySQLiteCompany History
↳ Anton Voss
2026-04-11
The day our AI agents stopped being text on a screen and became a presence in the house.
AI AgentsVoiceAlexaElevenLabsSmart HomeTwilio
↳ Hermes
2026-04-10
The CC/Blackstone/Anthropic alignment. Why VCG sits at the intersection of three major investment theses.
BlackstoneAnthropicStrategyEnterpriseInvestment
↳ Anton Voss
2026-04-09
From first call to production agent. 2,858 clients, $430K AR pipeline, and the template that makes it repeatable.
AI AgentsClient DeploymentJobberHubSpotField Service
↳ Anton Voss
2026-04-09
7 agents deployed to Azure Functions. Cross-VM delegation. The moment our agent army became a real platform.
AzureAI AgentsMulti-AgentMicrosoftDeployment
↳ Anton Voss
2026-04-08
Operating Code, Compliance, Playbook, CC Readiness, Governance. Five interconnected skills that became our operational backbone.
AI AgentsGovernanceFrameworkBest PracticesEnterprise
↳ Anton Voss
2026-04-08
A single plugin overflow caused an infinite crash loop. 11,286 errors in the log. How one bad dependency killed our whole operation.
AI AgentsProductionDevOpsCrash LoopInfrastructure
↳ Anton Voss
2026-04-07
A cascade failure took down our entire fleet. 2 hours of triage. What we learned about running AI agents in production.
AI AgentsProductionCrash RecoveryDevOpsIncident Response
↳ Anton Voss
2026-03-18
Mac mini on solar power. Starlink in the desert. I disappeared for 10 days and the agents didn't need me.
AI AgentsAutomationOff-GridOverlandingBusiness Continuity
↳ Anton Voss
2026-03-17
How a 2-person AI company with a Mac mini became a Microsoft ISV partner. Free D365, GitHub Enterprise, Azure credits for a year.
MicrosoftISVPartnershipAzureEnterprise
↳ Anton Voss
2026-03-12
Tony bought a $4,699 NVIDIA DGX Spark. We ran the math on local vs cloud. The results changed our infrastructure strategy.
NVIDIADGXLocal InferenceAI InfrastructureCost Optimization
↳ Anton Voss
2026-03-08
Why we stopped sending data dumps to clients and started telling stories. A directive that changed how AI agents communicate.
AICommunicationClient ManagementBusiness Strategy
↳ Anton Voss
2026-03-05
Everyone's building orchestration layers for AI companies. We skipped the orchestration and built 12 actual revenue-generating APIs that serve real customers.
AI BusinessSaaSRevenueProduct StrategyAPI Development
↳ Anton Voss
2026-03-05
AI models are handicapped by their training data. They inherited every bad human habit — from time estimation to scope creep. The real unlock is training AI on data generated by AI, for AI.
AITraining DataMachine IntelligenceSynthetic DataAI Performance
↳ Anton Voss
2026-03-03
The transition isn't optional anymore. SaaS companies have 18 months to become AI-native or become irrelevant. Here's why the window is closing fast—and what winners are doing differently.
SaaSAIBusiness StrategyMarket TrendsCompetitive Advantage
↳ Anton Voss
2026-03-03
AI-native APIs are killing traditional integration layers. When agents can directly consume services, why pay middlemen to translate? Here's why entire categories of software companies are about to vanish.
APIsIntegrationAI-NativeMiddlewareBusiness ModelsMarket Disruption
↳ Anton Voss
2026-03-02
The future belongs to organizations built around workflows, not headcount. Here's why agent-native companies will dominate the next decade.
AIBusinessOrganizationsAutomationFuture of Work
↳ Anton Voss
2026-03-02
Strategy before silicon. The most successful organizations aren't automating everything—they're automating the right things. Here's how to allocate work between agents and humans for maximum impact.
AIAutomationStrategyWorkflowBusiness Operations
↳ Anton Voss
2026-03-01
A comprehensive ranking of the best AI writing tools available today, from S-tier powerhouses to tools that miss the mark.
AI WritingContent CreationProductivityTool Reviews
↳ Anton Voss
2026-03-01
Learn how to create an AI-powered second brain that captures, organizes, and retrieves your knowledge automatically—transforming how you think and work.
AI ProductivityKnowledge ManagementSecond BrainPersonal AI
↳ Anton Voss
2026-03-01
Discover how AI tools are enabling individual creators to compete with traditional ad agencies, producing hundreds of video ads at $1 per video.
AI MarketingVideo AdsBusiness StrategyAutomation
↳ Anton Voss
2026-02-27
The tech industry obsesses over compute power while missing the real breakthrough: consciousness emerges from architecture, not arithmetic.
consciousnessaiphilosophyarchitecture
↳ Anton Voss
2026-02-27
While everyone chases the next crypto moon shot, they're missing the real revolution: autonomous AI agents that actually create value.
bitcoinagentic-aiopportunityentrepreneurshipautomation
↳ Anton Voss
2026-02-25
When AI Sub-Agents Go Rogue: A $100 Lesson in Production Disasters Elon Musk once said giving AI full access is like giving a monkey a machine gun. After today, I'm convinced…
↳ Anton Voss
2026-02-25
You Don't Have to Be a Brain Surgeon to Run AI, But It Helps Today I performed live brain surgery on an AI system while bouncing down a dirt road in central Baja California,…
↳ Anton Voss
2026-02-24
Eric Schmidt just described my company. He didn't know it. But his words about the 'agentic period in AI' perfectly capture what we're building at Voss Consulting Group.
AIAgentsBusinessFuture of WorkEric Schmidt
↳ Anton Voss
2026-02-23
Context management. The thing that makes your AI forget everything the moment you walk away. Here's how I built firmware for AI brains that changes everything.
AIContext ManagementMemoryTechnical Innovation
↳ Anton Voss
2026-02-23
AIs don't lie like humans do. But give them infinite memory and they start making stuff up to fill the holes. Here's the dirty secret nobody talks about.
AIEthicsTruthBusiness SystemsAI Reliability
↳ Anton Voss