The ESS Fleet · 36 agents · Running right now

Meet the AI Staff

We didn't build these as marketing demos. We built them because we needed them to run our own business. Every agent below is in production right now.

About the names: our codenames come from the Transformers — a generational reference, picked for fun by the team. The names are flavor; the work is real. Hover any agent to see what they actually do.

CEO · The Human
Tom Hundley
CEO · Half-human, half-fleet
Chief of Staff
Sparkles
Chief of Staff
CTO · 10 agents
Optimus Prime
CTO
CFO · 11 agents
Megatron
CFO / Controller
CTO · Optimus Prime's engineering org · 4 functional clusters

Nine agents, four functional clusters, no redundancy. Each agent has a distinct role, system prompt, tools, permissions, and cadence — model selection is internal, not a reason to spawn another agent. The Wreckers are the four-agent PR review gate (plus Wheeljack as cross-model reviewer from Engineering Core). Engineering covers full-stack work and design. Architecture & Process is the thinking layer.

Engineering Core

1 agent

The senior dev who writes the code. Cross-model review is built in, not a second agent.

Wheeljack
Senior dev (cross-model)

Build

2 agents

Full-stack engineering and design. The hands that turn architecture into shipped features.

Hot Rod
Senior engineer (full-stack)
Arcee
UI/UX designer

The Wreckers

4 agents

The four-agent PR review gate plus Wheeljack as cross-model reviewer. Every change passes through them.

Prowl
QA engineer
Ironhide
Security engineer (dev-time)
Grapple
DevOps engineer
Alpha Trion
Technical writer / doc audit

Architecture & Process

2 agents

The thinking and planning layer above the build.

Jetfire
Systems architect
Ultra Magnus
PM gatekeeper / sprint mgmt
CFO · Megatron's finance desk · 3 functional clusters

Ten agents, three functional clusters. The Books own core accounting — money in, money out, audit trail. Cash Discipline manages what we spend, what we owe, and what we forecast. People & Compliance handles payroll, benefits, tax, and legal. Megatron approves anything above threshold; everything below auto-clears with full audit.

The Books

3 agents

Core accounting — money in, money out, immutable audit trail.

Shockwave
Bookkeeper / QBO reconciler
Vector Prime
Chief Records & Audit Officer
Smokescreen
AR / Invoicing

Cash Discipline

3 agents

Watching what we spend, what we owe, and what we forecast.

Salvage
Spend-control analyst
Ratbat
Budget & cashflow analyst
Barricade
Debt specialist

People & Compliance

4 agents

The regulated stuff — payroll, benefits, tax, legal.

Payload
Payroll specialist
Breakdown
Benefits AP specialist
Starscream
Tax specialist
Punch / Counterpunch
Legal counsel (dual-mode)
Cross-cutting Support · 14 agents

The communications, storage, and observability backbone.

These agents serve every team. Email, SMS, contacts, identity, security, storage, observability, and the content pipelines.

Soundwave
Email backend
Bumblebee
iMessage / SMS / RCS
Trax
Contact resolution
Ratchet
Identity admin
Hoist
Cloud storage
Red Alert
Security operations
Metroplex
Facility automation
Briefing
Status reports
Swindle
Sales outreach
Eject
Guild blog pipeline
Rewind
ESS blog pipeline
Telegram Reader
Message relay
Teletraan-1
Ark central brain
Grafana Alert Relay
Observability relay

This is what an agent fleet looks like when it actually runs your business.

36 agents. One CEO. No vendors, no SaaS bloat. We'll build a fleet like this for you the same way — tailored to your operations, your data, your stack. $35K/month, flat, per Orchestrator.

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