From the video that did the hiring math on the "$400/month company of one"

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The companion guide to the video where I did the actual hiring math on the viral "fire your team, run your company on a $400/month stack of AI agents" pitch. The stack is real leverage — but four jobs on every team don't get replaced, they get hidden, and they come back with a bill. Inside: the 3-bucket framework (HAND TO AN AGENT / KEEP A HUMAN WATCHING / NEVER LET IT OWN); a role-by-role matrix for Engineer, Designer, Analyst, Operations, Marketing, Support and Legal/Finance — exactly what to delegate, what to supervise, and what an agent must never own; the 4 breaks that sink "replace the team" (the Supervisor Tax — Salesforce expects ~$300M on Anthropic in 2026 and STILL employs its engineers to supervise the agents; Reliability — an independent test ran a leading autonomous AI engineer on 20 real tasks and it completed 3; Accountability — you can't fire, PIP or depose an agent, so the liability lands on the one human; and the Cost Ceiling — $400 is a floor, Anthropic's own estimate for heavy coding use is $150–250/mo per person and the top tier exceeds $600); and the honest P&L — what $400 actually buys is roughly 1.5–2 roles of leverage attached to one very capable, very busy human, not a five-person team. The takeaway: replacement is a fantasy, leverage is the strategy — use agents to NOT make the next three hires and pour the time into the things only a human can own.

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