lilAgents

Digital assets you own forever. We build websites, brands, marketing systems, and custom tools with no platform lock-in. Founders: @davidvkimball & @xdylan

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Build fast with AI. Keep everything you make.

#BuildtoKeep is a free live workshop on July 28. We build live, show how to move a project off any tool that traps you, and kick off a build challenge you can win.

@Netlify + @OpenRouter giveaways, plus a surprise sponsor soon.

[David V. Kimball @davidvkimball]

Here it is: how to set up your AI-native company from scratch.

Includes:

• Picking a name
• Account(s) set up
• LLC/company formation
• Selecting an AI Harness
• Hardware / PCs
• Platform / data ownership vs. renting

This is @lilAgents' playbook! https://t.co/vwintgV9Dk

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I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three year doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly.

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You see the answer before your customer does. Rolling this out now, DM us to see what yours looks like today.

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Do you know what ChatGPT says about your business? Most owners don't.

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We built a weekly tracking service. Every week, we check how a business shows up across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini.

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When the scope and cost are both clear upfront, there's nothing left to negotiate. The conversation moves straight to work.

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We stopped billing hourly. Here's why.

Hourly billing rewards the wrong thing. The slower the work, the bigger the invoice.

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The part we didn't expect: prospects stopped pushing back on price.

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The problem is a platform like Wix or Squarespace, where there's no export path and a price hike leaves you stuck. That's what ownership is really protecting against: your exit.

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To be clear, renting a tool isn't the problem. Gmail is a rental and that's fine, because you can export your data and leave anytime.

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We build the other way. Best-in-class tools, connected, each doing the one thing it's actually good at.

Costs less and works better, which usually isn't the tradeoff you'd expect from software.

[lilAgents @lilAgents]

To be clear, renting a tool isn't the problem. Gmail is a rental and that's fine, because you can export your data and leave anytime. The problem is a platform like Wix or Squarespace, where there's no export path and a price hike leaves you stuck. That's what ownership is really protecting against: your exit.

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There are two ways to get a CRM. Buy it once, or rent it forever.

The subscription always looks cheaper in month one. Lower barrier, cancel anytime, nothing to install.

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We push toward ownership whenever it's actually available. A business that owns its infrastructure can't be held hostage by someone else's pricing page.