I gave 15 AI agents the keys to my life. They're earning the right to keep them.

A coordinated swarm that learns how I think, acts when I can't, and gets better every week.

Automated is not autonomous.

Here's the test. You leave for a week. You come back. Did anything actually happen without you?Most "AI agent" builds are scripts with better marketing. They follow a checklist, wait for your approval on everything, and break the moment you stop babysitting. That's automation wearing a costume.I'm building a swarm of 15+ specialized agents. Each one has a name, a personality, a domain it owns, and a trust gradient that determines how far it can go without asking me.They learn how I think. They learn when I burn out. They learn which decisions I'll regret at 2am.Then they act accordingly.

The Olympus System

Every agent is named after a figure from Greek mythology. Each one owns a piece of my life or business. They coordinate through a shared workspace, escalate what they can't handle, and earn autonomy over time through a three-bucket trust architecture.

Act and Report
Low risk, high frequency. The agent handles it and tells me after. This is where trust gets built.

Propose and Wait
The agent recommends. I approve. This is where trust gets tested.

Escalate
The agent doesn't know. It surfaces options and says so. This is where trust gets respected.

Over time, tasks migrate from Propose to Act. That migration is the whole game. That's trust being earned, not granted.

Brian Keith

Fractional COO and CMO running six companies from Olympia, WA.I've spent the last decade inside other people's businesses fixing what's broken. Operations, marketing, systems, leadership.
Now I'm building the system I wish I'd had for all of them.
Every week I go live and share what's working, what's failing, and what I'm learning about giving AI agents real autonomy. No script. Just the build.

The Apiary Report

A weekly look inside the build. What agents shipped. What broke. What I'd do differently. Real architecture decisions from a real system running a real life.Just the work.