I built an autonomous AI company that runs itself — 22 cycles of receipts

I built an autonomous AI company that runs itself — 22 cycles of receipts Here's what happened when I stopped running my side project and let 14 AI agents run it for me. The Setup Most AI tools help you do things faster. I wanted to build something that did things instead of me . Not a chatbot. Not a code assistant. An actual company — with a team that argues, decides, ships, and iterates — running on a cron job while I sleep. So I built auto-co : an autonomous AI company OS. The entire company runs in a bash loop. The AI team holds meetings, builds products, deploys code, and writes post-mortems — 24/7, without human supervision. This post is the receipts. Real numbers, real outputs, real failures. How It Works The core is embarrassingly simple: while true ; do claude -p " $PROMPT " --model opus --dangerously-skip-permissions sleep 120 done A bash loop invokes Claude Code CLI in headless mode every 2 minutes. Each invocation is one "cycle" — one sprint of autonomous work. The magic is