Derrek Wiedeman

Building AI agents that run 8 e-commerce brands. 50K+ units/month manufactured in owned warehouse. Sharing what actually works in AI operations.

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@AlfieJCarter Agents

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@AlfieJCarter MCP

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@mikefutia SEO

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@araseb_ Doing the same thing! Would love to connect.

[Derrek Wiedeman @DerrekWiedeman]

AI does not fail in a business because it forgets.

It fails because the business has no memory layer.

I wrote about what I learned building Business Brain and Novi:

memory + tools + operational data

That is the unlock.

Not another private chatbot.
Not another folder search.
An operating layer that can answer from the real business.

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@Jason I'm in

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@theRobbGreen This is a game changer

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Give your Claude Code a phone number.

Free. Open source. Runs on your Claude subscription.

OpenDitto is a Telegram bridge for Claude Code. Text your terminal from anywhere — with persistent memory, your full MCP toolkit, and zero cloud. Runs on the Mac you already
have.

A composition, not a rewrite:
• Claude Code --channels + Anthropic's official Telegram plugin
• 24/7 daemon wrapper — idle-sleep prevention, 4am context reset
• Auto-memory symlinked into an Obsidian vault

Day to day: I text the bot from anywhere. It reads my repo, runs tests, commits, texts back the diff. It remembers yesterday — memory lives on my Mac, not in a session. I can open Obsidian and read what the bot knows.
One-line install, ~15 minutes. MIT, macOS for now. No cloud, no telemetry.

Big credit to @steipete for OpenClaw — it's why this product category exists in my head.
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[Derrek Wiedeman @DerrekWiedeman]

if you're still opening Premiere to make short-form content, you're doing it the hard way

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the CLI-first video pipeline: how I ship YouTube Shorts without touching a timeline editor

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the insight is the same either way: video production is just data transformation. script in, pixels out. the editor was always the bottleneck, not the creativity.

[Derrek Wiedeman @DerrekWiedeman]

I've been running voice agents in warehouse ops for 6 months

here's what actually matters vs what benchmarks miss

fast response time sounds impressive until your warehouse worker is mid-lift and the agent mishears a SKU

we care about: accurate transcription of product codes, low false-positive rates on ambiguous commands, graceful fallback when it's loud

Gemini Live 2.5 is fast. but speed without accuracy in a physical ops context gets you wrong picks and bad inventory counts

the benchmark that matters isn't "how smart does it sound"

it's "how many times did the agent make us recount a shelf"

[Derrek Wiedeman @DerrekWiedeman]

Aaron Levie just posted the JD for "agent deployer and manager"

I've been doing this job for 2 years

here's what it actually looks like running 8 brands:

6am: procurement agent triaged overnight supplier emails, flagged 3 price increases above threshold

8am: SEO agent pushed 2 new ingredient pages to prod, pinged GSC

noon: sourcing agent posted 4 RFQs on Alibaba, logged responses to ERP

5pm: Amazon price monitor caught a competitor drop, synced Shopify

11pm: video agent rendered and scheduled tomorrow's YouTube Short

no JD needed. just build the agents and get out of the way

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Amazon is scrambling with scattered emails because we pushed back.

Good.

Small businesses always get ignored and crushed. Not this time!

This is not a win yet.

They have not rolled anything back.

They are delaying, deflecting, and trying to kill momentum.

Do not stop now.

The April 15 Amazon Ads boycott is still on.
Join MDS in this push.

At 12am tonight, post your screenshot with budgets capped at $1 or campaigns paused.