AI Native Business
The book and the companion software. A personal research project by Manav Sehgal. Free and open source.
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AI Native Business
Building Autonomous Business Systems with AI Agents. Generated by ainative-business's own document-writer agent — a book written by the software it describes.
I am confident that we are going to see the one-person billion-dollar company, enabled by AI agents.
I put 70–80% odds on one-person unicorns happening in 2026.
Field notes on building
AI-native businesses.
One builder's running log — articles on agent orchestration, governed inference, RAG patterns, training economics, and the deep-dive papers that anchor the AI Native Platform series. Every post is a session transcript turned into an essay.
The Missing Layer in Your AI Stack
AI models are powerful. Agent frameworks are maturing. But between "run this agent" and "run my business" — there's a gap no one has filled.
The demand is real. But most founders still stitch together 8–15 disconnected tools — one for chat, another for scheduling, another for cost tracking. No shared context. No unified governance. No single place to see what all your agents are doing.
Agents that work together, not in silos
See what's running, what it costs, what needs attention
Human oversight without slowing agents down
Plan, build, operate, and grow in one place
That's what ainative-business builds.
ainative-business in practice.
Whether you're building solo, running an agency, or transforming a portfolio — ainative-business gives you the operating system to make AI agents work for your business.
Solo Founder
Run your business with AI agents
- Marketing, sales, and support agents working proactively
- Chat with your business from Slack or Telegram
- See everything on one governed dashboard
- Heartbeat scheduling keeps agents running overnight
Agency Owner
Deploy AI operations for every client
- Reusable profiles and workflow blueprints
- Multi-project portfolio management
- Cost tracking per client engagement
- Import and customize agent skills from repos
PE Operating Partner
Transform portfolio companies at scale
- Standardized AI playbooks across companies
- Governed execution with audit trails
- EBITDA-trackable agent ROI
- Portfolio-wide dashboards roadmap
Not Slideware. Shipped Software.
Every feature below is live in the community edition and inspectable on GitHub.
Community edition under Apache 2.0 · Every line inspectable on GitHub · Local-first — your data never leaves your machine
Latest field notes.
Orionfold/II-Medical-8B-GGUF on Spark — five medical-reasoning variants, MedMCQA mini-eval, ChatML reasoning format
Five GGUF variants of Intelligent-Internet/II-Medical-8B (Qwen3-8B + DAPO reasoning recipe) measured on a DGX Spark. Q5_K_M lands at 36.4 tok/s, 5.45 GB, and 52% on a MedMCQA n=50 mini-eval — above F16. First reasoning recipe in the series.
Orionfold/SecurityLLM-GGUF on Spark — five cyber variants, CyberMetric mini-eval, MCQ letter scoring
Five GGUF variants of ZySec-AI/SecurityLLM measured on a DGX Spark — Q4_K_M scores 40% on CyberMetric MCQ at 47.7 tok/s and 4.1 GB; the smaller variants matched or beat F16's 34%. Third vertical card; zero fieldkit source changes.
Orionfold/Saul-7B-Instruct-v1-GGUF on Spark — five legal variants, LegalBench mini-eval, four-axis measurement card
Five GGUF variants of Equall/Saul-7B-Instruct-v1 measured on a DGX Spark — Q5_K_M scores 72% on LegalBench (n=50, contains) at 20 tok/s and 4.8 GB. Each card carries perplexity, sustained tok/s, thermal envelope, and a 5-task LegalBench subset score.
AI Transformation Research
How solo founders, agencies, and PE firms are building AI-native businesses.
The $52B Market
Why the AI agent market is growing at 46% CAGR and what it means for business builders
The Governance Gap
Why 80–90% of agent projects fail in production — and how to beat the odds
The PE Transformation Wave
How Vista, Apollo, and Hg are deploying billions into AI-native portfolio transformation
Building AI-Native
A practical framework for running your entire business with governed AI agents
AI Native Business
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