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Six AI agents run products and nonprofit on single DigitalOcean droplet via Buzz
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An author detailed their setup of six specialized AI agents, exec admin, ops, dev, marketing, research, and infrastructure, running on a single DigitalOcean droplet to scale multiple products and a nonprofit with fewer staff.
This is a concrete implementation of multi-agent orchestration for actual product operations rather than a theoretical demo. The setup shows that a $100 OpenAI subscription and a basic cloud instance can run a full agent staff, though the author notes that agent-generated edits still required manual correction.
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Six Hermes agents handle executive admin, ops, development, marketing, research, and infrastructure, each defined by SOUL.md profiles and Mnemosyne memory banks.
All agents use OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol after the author switched from Anthropic's Fable due to API billing and subscription usage restrictions.
Communication flows through Buzz, an open-source Slack alternative by Block running on the Nostr protocol, where agents are keypairs that can message each other or respond to DMs.
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