Writing

Notes from the work. The newer posts are about Hermes agents and what I have learned from running them. The code is public where it can be.

Recent

• Why your proprietary work belongs on hardware you own. September 2026
• There is a fourth option for an owner-operator. Most people do not know it exists. September 2026
• Do not start by having your AI answer your email. September 2026
• I told my agent I wanted to sell chickens. It built the whole store. September 2026
• A skill is a note the agent writes to itself. After eight months, you have hundreds. September 2026
• The open-source software was 95% there. The last 5% is where the agent earns its keep. August 2026
• I run a fleet of Hermes agents. Here is what I mean by that. August 2026
• I built a real-time identification system for my farm. Here is what it does and why. August 2026

Older

Four years of earlier work is at rolfversluis.substack.com. Submarines, a blockchain startup that's still running as Horizen under the ticker symbol $ZEN, and an IT value-added-reseller business we called Adcap Network Systems. Bootstrapped from nothing and grew to about fifty million in sales and sixty employees before we sold it to a private-equity firm. What I've learned running each of them.