Building Alone, Shipping Fast
Cleo is built by one person. I say that not as a badge of honour but as a fact that shapes every decision. There is no backend team. No design team. No DevOps. No QA. One person, a code editor, and AI tools that have fundamentally changed what "one person" means.
The Energy Model
Most SaaS pricing is simple. You pay per seat, per month. Maybe there is a usage component for storage or API calls. The model is well understood and investors like it because it scales linearly with headcount.
One Agent, Not Ten
The multi-agent pattern is having a moment. Every AI product demo shows a fleet of specialised agents handing off tasks like a relay team. An "analyst agent" passes findings to a "writer agent" who passes copy to a "publisher agent." It looks elegant on a slide.