Insights on finance, deal structures, systems, and building. 18 articles.
People ask me what I've automated across my businesses, and it's the wrong question. The interesting question isn't what can be automated — almost everything can be, badly — it's what should be, and...
How I run five ventures simultaneously without a co-founder — the prioritization system, automation layer, and the failure modes that nearly broke it.
How I use OpenAI Codex CLI and Claude Code together — the actual task split, review gates, what each one gets wrong, and why I stopped picking one.
What Claude Code's --dangerously-skip-permissions flag disables, what auto mode's classifier catches instead, and the gates I run unattended agents behind.
Zach Vorsteg on AI systems architecture as a solo technical founder in Palm Beach — tools, costs, and what the job market data misses.
Most founder dashboards are noise. Here are the specific numbers I check every day across five ventures—and what I stopped tracking entirely.
A March 2026 snapshot of my $257/month development stack: coding tools, infrastructure, what I dropped and how I evaluate the cost.
A practical guide to agentic engineering: break work into tasks, set review gates and decide when AI-generated code needs human intervention.
How I configure agent instructions, tool routing, memory and permission hooks for production workflows across my ventures.
How I use AI agents across real estate, trading, hardware and apps: tasks I delegate, limits I work around, and lessons for a one-person company.
From ESP32 prototype to field deployment: lessons from building an IoT thermal detection system with infrared sensors and cellular connectivity.
Where AI-assisted coding helps, where it creates risk, and how I choose between rapid prototypes and engineering for production systems.
What breaks when a solo founder automates trading, hardware and apps: cascading failures, monitoring blind spots and what still needs human judgment.
I run 54 trading bots across 5 markets. Here's what 3 years taught me about strategy decay, slippage, correlated drawdowns, and what actually breaks.
How I share progress across software, trading and hardware: what to publish, what to keep private, and a practical framework for building in public.
I run 54 automated bots on a single Mac using Python and launchctl — for $8/month. Full architecture, real failures, and cost analysis vs. cloud.
How coding helps me analyze deals and serve commercial real estate clients, and why I combine software building with work as a licensed sales associate.
DCF, LBO, and merger models explained — the three financial models that drive every M&A valuation, with synergy frameworks and sensitivity analysis.