Startup building agent-powered legal assistant
“Replaced traditional CRM entirely for 2-person venture fund; 90-second ingest workflows vs 20-30 min manual entry; production system processing all deals/meetings/relationships with fresh, complete data and full audit trails”
solo-founder
Why they built it
Scattered operational data across CRM/Docs/email made AI reasoning impossible due to complex APIs; needed simple file-based system agents could easily read/write.
What worked
Markdown as perfect agent-human interface; git's free atomic transactions/audits/access control; 90s ingest for complex workflows; agent superior data entry; materialized summaries as operational dashboard.
What broke or was painful
Agent errors creating duplicates/wrong statuses/broken references required iterative refinement of 600-line CONVENTIONS.md rules; no GUI/dashboards (terminal-only); daily cron summaries (real-time costlier)
The result
Replaced traditional CRM entirely for 2-person venture fund; 90-second ingest workflows vs 20-30 min manual entry; production system processing all deals/meetings/relationships with fresh, complete data and full audit trails