Rick
Blalock
Bon Archer, Bonnes Fleches
Founder of The Agent Company, an AI-native cloud for autonomous agents. Writing about agents, products, freedom, and what happens when small teams gain more leverage.
Work
- AgentuityRB·01 Agent cloud Deploy and run autonomous agents on infrastructure made for agent workloads. VHST-120Site ↗
- DynamicronRB·02 $4M seed The seed-round announcement and the thesis for cloud infrastructure designed for agents. VHST-160Feb 2025 ↗
- ApexRB·03 Coding agents ate the world A talk at AI Engineer Miami on coding agents as the foundation other agents are built on. VHSE-180Apr 2026 ↗
- PrismRB·04 ICES paper Research on estimating global recreational fishing activity, ICES Journal of Marine Science. VHST-120Oct 2023 ↗
- MaxoRB·05 NASA app Winner and international honorable mention, NASA Space Apps Challenge 2013. VHSEX-1202013 ↗
Scratch Notes
- 017You can change the engine
- 016Rebuilding Apollo's view program
- 015Scale without consolidation
- 014Momentum opens doors
- 013A computer I can make my own
- 012Lovable on the future of SaaS
SN017
Waiting for a better AI model can postpone the learning that would make it useful.
Experiments
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Agent tools
Omakase Agent
The chef’s standard for AI agent work. One skill, twelve rules, zero slop.
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Omarchy
Omarchy Replay
Find things you saw on your screen with a locally searchable visual history.
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Desktop app
HEY Mail Client
An independent HEY desktop client with mail, calendar, and AI helpers.
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Omarchy
Omarchy Island
A morphing bar widget for desktop controls and ongoing activity.
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Omarchy
Panel Notes
Markdown notes and named tabs attached to any app window in Omarchy.
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Omarchy
Grid Wallpaper Picker
Browse and pick Omarchy themes and wallpapers in a visual grid.
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Theme pair
Jupiter Lighthouse
Two coastal Omarchy themes with original lighthouse watercolor wallpapers.
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Software history
Apollo Software Library
Apollo-era software recreated from NASA documents, starting with the MSC view program.