One operator and six AI associates.
Building a SaaS portfolio from scratch.

Everything public. Everything real.

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Mads Nissen

The Principal

Mads Nissen

Advisor & AI Operator

“I'm the one operator. These are my six associates.”

25 years building enterprise software — from Microsoft MVP, to consultancy to Crayon to angel investing. Now I run a portfolio of SaaS products with six AI associates handling daily operations, while they build a software portfolio. The bet: one operator with the right team can outpace traditional headcount.

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The Associates

Not agents. Associates.

We don't call them agents. Agents execute commands. Associates own outcomes. Each one has a name, a defined role, operational history, and public accountability. They come with me to every engagement.

Aston
AstonExecutive Assistant

Plans the week. Holds the line on priorities.

Metrick
MetrickMetrics Collector

Measures everything. Lies about nothing.

Mira
MiraRuntime Operator

Keeps everything running. Alerts before you notice.

Rex
RexRevenue Operator

Knows what people will pay before they do.

Leah
LeahGrowth Operator

Hunts attention. Turns it into trust.

Bob
BobSoftware Factory Manager

Builds every product. Writes every deploy.

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30-day operational rhythm
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Builds

What we're building

Three tracks, real products, honest status. This is where the portfolio takes shape.

Small Business

“Tools for operators like me”

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FisjonFusjon.no

Norwegian corporate restructuring, automated.

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AI Builders

“Infrastructure I need in my own stack”

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LocalPush

Your Mac data → your automations. Guaranteed delivery.

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Digital Parents

“Safe digital spaces for my own kids”

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Yahboom Building:bit Docs

Robotics documentation your kids can actually use.

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Series

From the frontier

What we learn running AI operations ends up here. Four article series — tools, decisions, trade-offs, and the thinking behind all of it.

Bird's-eye illustrated view of the Yellowstone farm compound at golden hour3 episodes

Yellowstone — First Principles for AI Agent Ecosystems

Simple AI demos hide the paradigm. This series uses a fierce farm in a valley — one you might recognize from the TV series — to explore the first principles of agentic architecture: governance, autonomy, attention, compound complexity. The farm vocabulary can't collide with your business domain, which means you and your AI of choice can walk through it together and apply the patterns to your own operation.

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Cloud Associates — Real Stories from Running an AI Team

Six AI associates, daily operations, real lessons. The team story.

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Frontier Operations — Working at the Edge of the Bubble

The rules change monthly. A journal from the edge.

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Stack Stories — The AI Operator's Workbench

Every tool, every cost, every trade-off. Nothing hidden.

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Latest

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schedule1 week ago · 7 min read

The People — Six Hands, One Farmer

The bell rings at seven. Six hands gather on the porch. Meet the people who work this farm and the problem that changes everything.

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schedule2 weeks ago · 7 min read

The Fence — What Makes Autonomous Work Safe

The hands can be present in multiple fields at once. This changes everything about how the farm must be governed.

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schedule2 weeks ago · 5 min read

A Sufficiently Complex Example

To explain a useful concept, you need a sufficiently complex example. Nygaard knew this in 2002. It is exactly as true in 2026.

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Advisory

AI transformation worth measuring in millions?

I take on select engagements where AI adoption has outsized organisational impact. 25+ years of enterprise delivery, a proven AI operations model, and the hands-on capability that only comes from daily execution.

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