How to Build a Business with a Team of Agents | Scott Patterson (Core Fiber Founder & CEO)

Scott Patterson changed the price on his website by talking for a few minutes. The agent did the rest, then reported back on how the new price was performing before he thought to ask.

Scott is the founder and CEO of Core Fiber, a prebiotic fiber brand sold on Amazon, TikTok Shop and its own site. He built it to be a large company with a small headcount, with an agent working in nearly every function, from supply chain to finance. In this episode he walks Noah Levin through the system that runs the business and what an operator without a technical team can take from it.

Topics covered:

• Building a company brain the agent maintains, so you never have to open it yourself
• Handing off whole projects, from a price change to the month-end close, and getting back only the human tasks
• Where to start: one real problem, one long dictation, and knowing when to stop optimizing

Chapters
(00:00) Introduction
(01:11) Agents Instead of Headcount
(05:43) Half the Day in ChatGPT
(07:45) Where the Company Brain Lives
(12:08) A Data Warehouse in Sheets
(16:30) The Brief That Nags You
(18:34) The Price Change He Dodged
(23:01) An R&D Team on Demand
(26:54) Hiring an AI CFO
(30:36) A Product Launch, Dictated
(32:29) Start With a Real Problem
(36:03) Stop Optimizing. Touch Grass.

Resources
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Connect with Scott: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-patterson1/
Core Fiber Website: https://corefiber.co/

Connect with Noah on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/noahlevin/
Noah's Website: https://www.noahlevin.com/
Serious People Website: https://seriouspeople.ai/