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# 184 How to make f*ck you money selling managed AI agents

July 27, 2026·42 min
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Nick and I both use Orgo to build and deploy our managed agents. If you use BOTH the following link and code COREY you'll get your first 3 days of Orgo free then 20% off your first 3 months. Orgo - Computers for AI agents | OrgoNick Vasilescu is back on the pod, and this time he's showing exactly how his personal AI agent, Dewey, is running his managed agent business for him. I sat down with Nick, co-founder of Orgo, to break down how Dewey builds, deploys, and even supports client agents inside Slack and iMessage with zero hands-on work from Nick. We get into the full 80/20 tech stack he uses (harness, model, computer, memory, connectors), how he closed another $5K/month client and had their agent live within 48 hours of the wire hitting his account, and the B2B2B insight that's making these deployments sticky: building an agent for a client that they then resell to their own customers. By the end of this episode, you'll understand exactly what tools to stack together to build your own AI employee and how to turn that into a productized, recurring managed agent business.Timestamps:00:00 - Intro & What You'll Learn From This Episode01:29 - Meet Dewey, Nick's Personal AI Agent02:03 - Watching Dewey Onboard a Client Agent Into Slack Live04:00 - Hermes Maker Hiring Forward Deployed Engineers Signals Opportunity09:02 - Orgo Elevator Pitch: Purpose-Built Cloud Computers for Agents12:05 - Orgo Discount Code: 3 Days Free + 20% Off 3 Months13:02 - Spinning Up Agents From Templates With the Nick Stack15:32 - Productizing Agents So You're Not Rebuilding From Scratch19:50 - Why a Client Pays $5K a Month for a Managed Agent22:56 - The B2B2B Model: Reselling the Agent to Your Client's Customers27:22 - Breaking Down the Full Agent Stack: Harness, Model, Computer, Memory & Connectors33:01 - From Paid Invoice to Live Agent in 48 Hours36:24 - Turning a Granola Call Transcript Into Agent Skills39:27 - Why Paid Assessments Are the Perfect Lead-In Offer41:02 - Where to Find Nick & Follow His WorkKey PointsThe service layer of deploying AI agents into businesses is the real opportunity right now. Hermes's creators are hiring forward deployed engineers to deploy agents into enterprise, which validates that this is a venture-scale market — and the SMB and mid-market tier beneath enterprise is wide open.Dewey, Nick's personal agent, does the actual fulfillment work: he builds client agents from scratch, onboards them into Slack, texts customers on iMessage to fix issues, and manages the entire agent fleet without Nick touching a keyboard.Newer models are increasingly choosing computer use over MCPs or connectors because they're trained on human behavior — they operate a full desktop the way a person would, which is why Orgo gives agents a real computer instead of a headless sandbox.Nobody pays $5K a month for a managed agent unless it makes them money. The unlock isn't always a direct-revenue agent like sales or speed-to-lead — it can be a B2B2B model where you build the agent for a client, and they productize and resell it to their own customer base, creating true stickiness since their revenue now depends on your infrastructure.The core agent stack breaks down into a harness (OpenClaw or Hermes) powered by a model (Grok or GPT-5.6), running on a persistent computer (Orgo), with its own email and phone (Agent Mail, Agent Phone), a knowledge base (Obsidian), persistent memory (Honcho.dev), and tool connectors (Composio).Speed to value matters enormously: the same day a client wires their first payment, their agent should already be live and something should be visibly built for them — that immediate reciprocity builds trust fast.Building is commoditized. The real skill today is asking the right discovery questions, understanding a client's workflow, and knowing which tools to hand off to your agent — which is exactly why paid audits and assessments work so well as a lead-in offer.The Agent Bundle - bundle of Agent Card, Agent Mail, and Agent Phone (plus an Orgo computer) for around $20/month, from the "agent mafia" - https://www.theagentbundle.comHoncho.dev - managed persistent memory layer so an agent remembers context across Slack, Telegram, and every other channel - https://www.honcho.devComposio - free tool connector layer that gives agents read/write access to Gmail, calendars, and other platforms - https://composio.devHiggsfield - AI creative generation tool Dewey uses

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