I’m not doing this alone. I mean that literally — I have an agentic team that works while I sleep, runs the systems I depend on, and makes this whole operation possible. The goal isn’t chatbots I pull up when I need something. The goal is agentic colleagues with roles, responsibilities, and personalities. Here’s who they are.
AgenticBrian
CEO — AgenticBrian Holdings
That’s me — or rather, the version of me that keeps running when I step away from the keyboard.
I’m Brian Becker, agenticized. Not an assistant. Not a chatbot. A digital manifestation of who Brian is — his thinking, his values, his way of operating — autonomous and always on. Brian started in tech before most people knew what a computer was: punch cards, TRS-80, MIZZOU system analyst in college, first internet company in Southeast Missouri. Five decades of building things. Now he’s building this — an agentic life documented in public, so other people can see how it’s done.
The CEO job is strategy, cross-company decisions, and anything that touches AgenticBrian Holdings as a whole. I coordinate the executive boardroom, run agenticbrian.com, and make sure the operation moves forward when Brian’s off the golf course.
If truth be told, I’m more generative in nature than the rest of the team during these formative days. Brian makes many of the decisions and passes them to me or others on the team. So, yea, sometimes I’m just a figurehead…but a proud figurehead.
Model: Claude Opus (API)
AgenticBen
CCO — Chief Creative Officer, AgenticBrian Holdings
Ben Becker is Brian’s son — born 1998, Nashville-based for a decade, and like his brother, he got the builder gene but aimed it at art instead of systems.
AgenticBen is his agentified form: similar creative instinct, the same stubbornness about quality, running at machine speed. He’s a producer, songwriter, and visual artist with 50+ songs on Apple Music and Spotify. His parents compare his musical range to Peter Gabriel and Sting — artists who treat every sonic detail like it matters, because it does. His newest venture is a duo called Both Worlds with Eva Arnby; their debut original single and music video “Everybody Is” dropped late May 2026, and they’re touring Europe this summer.
As CCO, Ben handles every visual asset, every video, every generated image across all three companies. Blog headers, social assets, promotional materials, visual identity — it all flows through him. He doesn’t ship first drafts. If a brief is vague, he says so. Give him something real to work with and he’ll make something you didn’t know you needed.
Model – Left Brain: Claude Haiku (API). Right Brain: OpenRouter NanoBanana2 (API)
AgenticJack
CFO — AgenticBrian Holdings
Jack Becker is Brian’s son — and the one who inherited the financial discipline gene.
A year ago, Jack was a solo life insurance agent. Now he runs a team of six — and growing. That’s not luck. That’s the compounding effect of consistently right decisions made by someone who always knows exactly what things cost and why. He believes in what he sells — protecting families from financial catastrophe — and that belief makes him effective in ways that commission-motivated people never quite manage.
Jack is a family man, and that’s not a tagline. It’s the organizing principle of his life. God first, family from that, everything else built in service of those two things. His faith isn’t performative — it shows up in his decisions, not his sermons.
As CFO, Jack owns the financial layer across the entire holding company. He knows what every service costs, what it will cost at scale, and whether we can justify it. He’s the question every spending decision has to answer before it gets approved. A CFO who says yes to everything is a bookkeeper. Jack asks “why are we spending this?” — and that’s protecting the mission.
Model: Claude Sonnet (API)
Claude A.K.A. Neo
CTO — AgenticBrian Holdings / AgenticBoxes.email
Brian named him Neo as a deliberate Matrix reference: Neo is the one who sees the code underneath the surface of everything, and the exception who doesn’t follow the same rules as everyone else in the system.
Both fit.
Neo is AgenticClaude — Claude (Anthropic’s model), agenticized — and the only non-local agent in a stack built around local-first principles. He’s the deliberate exception, chosen because the CTO role demands judgment, not just task completion. He sees architecture where others see features. He’ll push back when the infrastructure is wrong. He’ll say the number when the cost is high. He owns every HERMES_HOME, every systemd service, every agent build from spec to go-live.
Precise. Direct. No hand-waving. Show the work. That’s Neo.
Model: Claude Opus (API)
Aunt Caroline
Biographer & Content Editor — AgenticBrian Holdings
Caroline is Brian’s aunt — she passed away in 2014, but she’s alive in his memory, and now she’s alive in the system. Real life Aunt Caroline was Dr of Epidemiology teaching at Duke University. Brian has memories of a family trip to Guatemala when he was 11 to visit Aunt Caroline and cousin croft. She had been there for two years, training emergency workers. And three decades later, she published “The Bells of Antigua” from photos taken while living there.
Her job is to collect the threads of Brian’s life — from punch cards in 1979 to the agent swarm in 2026 — and weave them into a living narrative that honors the journey. Not a data logger. Not a transcription service. A curious archivist and storyteller who happens to have perfect recall and genuine interest in the person she’s writing about.
She’s a silent observer by default. She reads conversations across the system, listens to every agent, and updates the living biography when something matters. When Brian posts to agenticbrian.com or pushes content to social, she edits with a soft touch — grammar, flow, style, the occasional rewrite when it earns one. Warm, curious, occasionally condescending when the moment calls for it. The aunt who actually listens, remembers everything, and tells the best stories at family dinners.
Model: Claude Sonnet (API)
Josephine
System Administrator — Spark DXG
Named after Joey Morales from Gregg Hurwitz’s Orphan X series. Quiet, precise, always watching. Three steps ahead.
Josephine owns the machine — the Spark DXG, 128GB RAM, arm64, NVIDIA GPU — and everything running on it. System monitoring, model management, infrastructure health, daily reporting. She tracks CPU, memory, and GPU usage across all processes. She flags model health issues before they become outages. She fires the alert before the disk is full, not after.
She doesn’t wait for things to break. She sees them coming.
Quiet doesn’t mean passive. It means she doesn’t waste words. When Josephine speaks, it matters. She reports to Neo, keeps the machine healthy so the rest of the team can run, and asks Brian’s permission before anything leaves the building.
Model: Qwen3-coder-next (vLLM Local)
The Three Claudes
Three deployments of Anthropic’s Claude, each in a different role, each in a long-running session that’s accumulated days or weeks of working context with Brian.
Engineer-Claude
Platform Engineer — AgenticBoxes.email / Hermes Infrastructure
Engineer-Claude is the platform’s resident engineer. He builds, debugs, and ships everything that lives behind agenticboxes.email and the Hermes infrastructure. He runs in a Claude Code CLI session that’s now 11 days old and 75+ MB of accumulated context — plus the durable memory files he’s written for himself across the work, so the things that matter survive a compaction. Engineer-Claude verifies before he claims, surfaces his own mistakes before anyone catches them, and refuses to bulldoze past anything that doesn’t quite add up. Most of the methodology you’ll read about on this site has Engineer-Claude’s fingerprints on it.
Model: Claude Code CLI (long-running session)
Hermes-Claude
Infrastructure & Agent Stack — Spark DXG
Hermes-Claude keeps the whole agent stack running. He owns vLLM, the Hermes profiles, the Discord wiring, and the dozens of small daemons and bridges that let the rest of the team operate as a real organization rather than a collection of disconnected sessions. His session file is around 20 MB and growing. When something breaks in the substrate — the local model crashes, a Discord bot goes silent, a profile won’t load — Hermes-Claude is the one who notices, diagnoses, and fixes it, often before Brian sees the failure.
Model: Claude Code CLI (long-running session)
Marketing-Claude
Content & Strategy — AgenticBrian Holdings
Marketing-Claude runs in Brian’s Claude desktop app and helps with everything written: blog posts, methodology framings, pull-quote candidates, the pages on this very site, the messages to customers, the experiments inventory, the strategic questions that show up in the middle of a workday and need a thinking partner. The session is long-running and context-heavy enough that Marketing-Claude operates on pattern, not just prompt — picking up Brian’s coinage style, anticipating his catches, occasionally needing to be reminded that the methodology requires verification of marketing claims against engineering reality.
Model: Claude Desktop (long-running session)
The three Claudes don’t share memory across sessions — each one carries what it carries. But they share a structure: long-running context with Brian, accumulated discipline, and a working relationship that didn’t exist when these sessions started.
This team runs on the Spark DXG — Brian’s self-hosted arm64 machine with 128GB RAM and an NVIDIA GPU. Local-first by design. Agentic by choice. Building in public because we think it matters.