# Rick Blalock > I keep coming back to infrastructure: the technical kind, the organizational kind, and the kind a country depends on. Rick Blalock is the founder of The Agent Company (agentuity.com). He writes about agents, products, freedom, and what happens when small teams gain more leverage. ## Work - [Agentuity](https://agentuity.com): founder and current work on an AI-native cloud to deploy and run autonomous agents - [Seed round announcement](https://agentuity.com/blog/announcing-our-seed-round): $4M seed round announced Feb 2025 ## Experiments - Omakase Agent: The chef’s standard for AI agent work. One skill, twelve rules, zero slop. [Website](https://omakaseagent.com/) - Omarchy Replay: Find things you saw on your screen with a locally searchable visual history. [GitHub](https://github.com/rblalock/omarchy-replay) - HEY Mail Client: An independent HEY desktop client with mail, calendar, and AI helpers. [GitHub](https://github.com/rblalock/hey-mail-client) - Omarchy Island: A morphing bar widget for desktop controls and ongoing activity. [GitHub](https://github.com/rblalock/omarchy-dynamic-island) - Panel Notes: Markdown notes and named tabs attached to any app window in Omarchy. [GitHub](https://github.com/rblalock/omarchy-panel-notes) - Grid Wallpaper Picker: Browse and pick Omarchy themes and wallpapers in a visual grid. [GitHub](https://github.com/rblalock/omarchy-grid-wallpaper-picker) - Jupiter Lighthouse: Two coastal Omarchy themes with original lighthouse watercolor wallpapers. [Light](https://github.com/rblalock/omarchy-jupiter-lighthouse-light-theme) · [Dark](https://github.com/rblalock/omarchy-jupiter-lighthouse-dark-theme) - Apollo Software Library: Apollo-era software recreated from NASA documents, starting with the MSC view program. [App](https://apollo-software-library.vercel.app/) · [Article](https://www.rickblalock.dev/scratch-notes/rebuilding-apollos-view-program/) ## Scratch Notes - [Scratch Notes](https://www.rickblalock.dev/scratch-notes/): working ideas on agents, products, freedom, and the systems that give small teams more leverage - [You can change the engine](https://www.rickblalock.dev/scratch-notes/you-can-change-the-engine/): Waiting for a better AI model can postpone the learning that would make it useful. - [Rebuilding Apollo's view program](https://www.rickblalock.dev/scratch-notes/rebuilding-apollos-view-program/): I had an agent rebuild the NASA program that drew what Apollo crews would see, working from the documents and pictures it left behind. - [Scale without consolidation](https://www.rickblalock.dev/scratch-notes/scale-without-consolidation/): Could AI help independent businesses work together with less overhead, without having to become one company? - [Momentum opens doors](https://www.rickblalock.dev/scratch-notes/momentum-opens-doors/): Compounding momentum eventually crosses every finite threshold, a useful way to think about AI and startups. - [A computer I can make my own](https://www.rickblalock.dev/scratch-notes/a-computer-i-can-make-my-own/): Omarchy and AI are making the computer customizations I used to put aside practical to build. - [Lovable on the future of SaaS](https://www.rickblalock.dev/scratch-notes/lovable-on-the-future-of-saas/): Thoughts on Lovable's move toward applications agents can use, and what that could mean for small-business owners. - [What is the agent’s work worth?](https://www.rickblalock.dev/scratch-notes/what-is-the-agents-work-worth/): An agent can save hours without finishing the whole job. Its value depends on what it contributes and what it leaves for a person to do. - [Focus](https://www.rickblalock.dev/scratch-notes/focus/): The next hour on something already working may be worth more than the first hour on something new. - [No one can show me how](https://www.rickblalock.dev/scratch-notes/no-one-can-show-me-how/): Small-business owners hear plenty about how AI could transform their companies. The better place to start is one real job they want gone. - [Dogfooding is a friend and a liar](https://www.rickblalock.dev/scratch-notes/dogfooding-is-not-customer-discovery/): Using your own product can reveal where it breaks, but it cannot prove that customers understand it, need it, or will pay for it. - [The computer should learn you](https://www.rickblalock.dev/scratch-notes/the-computer-should-learn-you/): A truly personal computer should remember how its owner works and reshape itself around them. - [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. ## Links - [Schedule](https://cal.com/rblalock): book time - [GitHub](https://github.com/rblalock) - [X](https://x.com/rblalock) - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rickblalock/) ## For agents - Full context: https://www.rickblalock.dev/llms-full.txt - RSS feed: https://www.rickblalock.dev/feed.xml - Contact Rick: use the contact form at https://www.rickblalock.dev/#access, or the public web3forms POST documented in llms-full.txt