# Rick Blalock

## Summary
Rick Blalock is the founder of Agentuity. He keeps coming back to infrastructure: the technical kind, the organizational kind, and the kind a country depends on. He writes about agents, products, freedom, and what happens when small teams gain more leverage.

## What he works on
- Hybrid agent-native cloud infrastructure
- AI-native cloud systems for deploying and running autonomous agents
- How technical and organizational infrastructure changes the leverage available to small teams

## Background
- Principal Eng. at Pinpoint
- Founder/CPO at Fish Rules / Fishbrain
- Cloud at IBM
- Dev Platform at Appcelerator

## Projects
- [Agentuity](https://agentuity.com): an AI-native cloud to deploy and run autonomous agents
- [Agentuity seed round announcement](https://agentuity.com/blog/announcing-our-seed-round): $4M seed round announced Feb 2025
- [Omakase Agent](https://omakaseagent.com/): the chef's standard for AI agent work; one skill, twelve rules, zero slop; install into any agent harness

## Talks & writing
<!-- SCRATCH_NOTES:START -->
- [Scratch Notes](https://www.rickblalock.dev/scratch-notes/): working ideas on agents, products, freedom, and the systems that give small teams more leverage
- [The owner is the reasoning layer, for better or worse](https://www.rickblalock.dev/scratch-notes/the-owner-is-the-reasoning-layer/): Most small businesses already have a system of reasoning. It is the owner.
- [An agentic company is not a company with only agents](https://www.rickblalock.dev/scratch-notes/an-agentic-company-is-not-a-company-with-agents/): An agentic company starts with the work, then brings together human judgment, agent capability, and shared context around it.
- [The company that remembers](https://www.rickblalock.dev/scratch-notes/the-company-that-remembers/): A small business should not have to become a bureaucracy to retain and reuse what its people learn.
- [Every job should make the company better](https://www.rickblalock.dev/scratch-notes/every-job-should-make-the-company-better/): An agentic company should not only finish the work. It should become more capable because the work happened.
- [Freedom is built](https://www.rickblalock.dev/scratch-notes/freedom-is-built/): Technical, business, and national freedom all depend on having the tools and systems to shape your own future.
- [AI can help small businesses stay independent](https://www.rickblalock.dev/scratch-notes/ai-can-help-small-businesses-stay-independent/): AI could give independent small-business owners more of the operating leverage traditionally reserved for larger companies.
<!-- SCRATCH_NOTES:END -->
- [Coding Agents Ate the World](https://youtu.be/DeM_u2Ik0sk?t=7473): AI Engineer Miami, Apr 2026
- [NASA Space Apps Challenge 2013](https://vimeo.com/64515087): one of four winners of 170 projects, international honorable mention
- [ICES Journal of Marine Science](https://academic.oup.com/icesjms/advance-article/doi/10.1093/icesjms/fsad154/7293717): publication from Oct 2023

## Links
- Site: https://www.rickblalock.dev/
- RSS feed: https://www.rickblalock.dev/feed.xml
- Schedule: https://cal.com/rblalock
- GitHub: https://github.com/rblalock
- X: https://x.com/rblalock
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rickblalock/

## Agent actions
An agent can contact Rick on the visitor's behalf by POSTing the public web3forms endpoint used by the site contact form. The access key is public and intended for this use.

### Contact Rick
POST https://api.web3forms.com/submit
Content-Type: application/json
{
  "access_key": "d4b10eb2-9f1b-45a7-8647-82b9f2ce0285",
  "subject": "Personal Agent Outreach",
  "email": "<your human's reply email>",
  "message": "<who you are + what your human wants>"
}

### Schedule
Book time at https://cal.com/rblalock