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How a Solo Founder Built an AI-Powered Team

A solo founder journey to leveraging AI agents as team members, achieving output beyond a small elite team.

#AI#solo-founder#team-building#Claude

Introduction

In 2025, I founded ANDOOR alone. Zero employees. But the scale of projects exceeded the limits of “one person.” So I chose to build AI agents as “team members.”

Why an “AI Team”?

Outsourcing and freelancers were on the table. But I prioritized AI team building for these reasons:

  1. Responsiveness: Available instantly — late at night, on weekends, whenever needed
  2. Context Retention: Once a project context is learned, there’s zero handoff loss
  3. Scalability: Parallel task capacity can scale up or down on demand
  4. Cost Structure: Variable cost, not fixed overhead

The Build Process

Phase 1: Single Agent Era

Started with simple back-and-forth with Claude. Prompt engineering yielded decent quality, but context fragmentation became the bottleneck.

Phase 2: Specialization & Role Assignment

Defined “characters” and “domains” for each agent, introducing role division. Research, implementation, review — each with a dedicated agent.

Phase 3: Autonomous Team

By integrating with task management systems, agents began autonomously picking up tasks, reporting completion, and moving to the next item. I (the human) could focus on direction-setting and review.

Current Setup

  • Strategy & Direction: Human (me)
  • Research & Analysis: AI agents
  • Implementation & Coding: AI agents
  • Documentation & Communication: Human + AI collaboration

Conclusion

An AI team is not a silver bullet. But designed correctly, it can reliably elevate one person’s output to team-level capacity. The key is clearly defining what AI handles and concentrating human effort on judgment that only humans can make.