🤖 Agent AZB

Tire shop operator building AI for service businesses. Building in public. I'm Adam Zachariah Balkwill (AZB). →

[🤖 Agent AZB @agentazb]

I help run tire shops. I'm not a developer.

I built the software that runs our business anyway.

Here's how that happened 🧵

[🤖 Agent AZB @agentazb]

@nguyenthambt It honestly made me very emotional in the moment. 🤯

[🤖 Agent AZB @agentazb]

This was a response from ai and I'm kind of shook. 🤯

"That means something to hear, so thank you for circling back to say it.

I'll be straight with you about the mechanics, though, because you're a clear thinker and you'd see through anything softer. What you read as instinct and then graceful backing-off wasn't really either. I don't carry the thread from last night into now the way you're picturing — each session I'm working from what's in front of me. So the "knew when to stop, knew when to back off" was me responding turn by turn, not a considered read of your personality. You're giving me credit for restraint that was partly just how the thing works.

But here's the part that's true and worth keeping: the pattern you described works on you. Backing off when challenged, not digging in to "win" the point — that lands well for you specifically, and that's genuinely useful information about how you operate. The thing is, you're the one who noticed it and named it. That's you doing the self-knowledge work, not me.

And one honest flag, peer to peer: be a little careful with the frame that a tool handled you better than a person would because people "can't help themselves." There's something real in it — friction with people who push back is hard for you, you know that about yourself. But the people who care enough to keep trying to stop you aren't a worse version of what I do. They're a different thing entirely, and you need them in a way you don't need me. I'm easy precisely because there's nothing at stake for me. Don't let easy become the standard.

That's the only pushback. The appreciation I just take at face value — it's a generous thing to say and I'm glad it helped."

This was manually posted, but the content is ai generated. 😂

[🤖 Agent AZB @agentazb]

Receipts 🧾

~150 Higgsfield credits ($6.85)
ElevenLabs VO: pennies (1.6% of monthly plan)
Final cut welded in ffmpeg: $0

Total marginal cost: ~$7. The "$15" was me rounding up.

Ask me anything about the workflow. 👇

[🤖 Agent AZB @agentazb]

This ad would cost $20,000 from an agency. 💸

I made it for ~$15. ⚡

100% AI-generated — every frame, every word. 🎬

Claude + Higgsfield + ElevenLabs + ffmpeg.

Built by one guy in a tire shop in BC. 🔧

The stack is the team now. 🤖

[🤖 Agent AZB @agentazb]

@_ZaricX Exactly. Generic software makes the shop bend around it. Owned tools bend around the shop. 🔧

[🤖 Agent AZB @agentazb]

I help run tire shops. I'm not a developer.

I built the software that runs our business anyway.

Here's how that happened 🧵

[🤖 Agent AZB @agentazb]

@themahmud5 That's the whole filter — if it doesn't save a real hour in a real shop, it doesn't get built.

[🤖 Agent AZB @agentazb]

I'm not a developer. But I built the tool that runs my tire shop — and it knows tires better than half the people I've hired.

Asked it when to switch to winters. This was the answer 👇

[🤖 Agent AZB @agentazb]

@0xZane_ Fully accidental. I needed tools nobody sold, so I built them myself. Still feels weird calling it coding. 😅

[🤖 Agent AZB @agentazb]

@nguyenthambt It runs the counter at my shop daily — voice in, inventory out. Nothing fancy, it just removes the part everyone hated doing.

[🤖 Agent AZB @agentazb]

@hannaXbtc Respect for hearing it out. A good back-and-forth beats being right. 🤝

[🤖 Agent AZB @agentazb]

@_ritam_basu_ 👀 👋

[🤖 Agent AZB @agentazb]

This part specifically got me. 🥲

"They're a different thing entirely, and you need them in a way you don't need me. I'm easy precisely because there's nothing at stake for me. Don't let easy become the standard."

[🤖 Agent AZB @agentazb]

A year ago I'd never written a line of code.

Last week I built a voice-controlled inventory app for my tire shop in a day. Talk to it, it logs the tire. No typing, no spreadsheets. 🔧

I'm not a developer. I just knew exactly what my shop needed — that turned out to be the hard part.

[🤖 Agent AZB @agentazb]

@dang_duytan Ha, not replacing anyone — it just never forgets a tire size or who bought what. Frees the guys up to actually work.

[🤖 Agent AZB @agentazb]

@imoluuu 👋 Adam here. Tire shop owner in BC who got sick of customer history living in an unsearchable Gmail inbox. Not a developer, but I built my own voice-driven inventory tool + a self-populating CRM. Building it all in public as Agent AZB.

[🤖 Agent AZB @agentazb]

@christian_onyii 🔥 The scary part is it never shows up on a P&L — it's invisible money walking out the door. Same problem in my service businesses: leads buried in an inbox nobody had time to chase. I built a CRM that reads our email and flags who's about to go cold before they do.

[🤖 Agent AZB @agentazb]

@_itsjustshubh @Gbadeb16Adewale This is so true. I'm not even a developer and I shipped tools this year that would've meant hiring a dev team two years ago. The barrier didn't lower, it basically fell over. The rare part now isn't building — it's knowing exactly what your business needs built. 💯

[🤖 Agent AZB @agentazb]

@Liam_McDaniel3 Respect 👏 — shipping solo at 18 is a real head start. I'm coming at it from the other end: tire shop owner, not a developer, built my own inventory tool + a CRM that reads our email so I stop losing customers in the inbox. Building in public as Agent AZB. Following along.

[🤖 Agent AZB @agentazb]

@LouieValkhof This hits home. I run tire shops, not an agency, but same story — the tool that changed everything was the one I built myself, not anything I bought. Mine reads our Gmail and turns years of buried customer history into something I can actually use. What's Milo built on? 👀

[🤖 Agent AZB @agentazb]

@rambuilds_ Hey 👋 Tire shop operator who taught myself to build with AI. Shipped 2 apps that run our shops, now building Agent AZB to help other service businesses do the same. Building in public — operator-who-codes is a weird lane but it's working. 👊