I'm Patrick. I run BMD HODL, a one-person holding company. Real estate, public markets, AI tools, and writing. Agents do the heavy lifting. I ship a new tool every few weeks.
Long-term positions on autopilot.
Real estate, public markets, startup equity
Automated. I check it once a week.
The Autotrader, up 34% this year
The tools I build and sell.
AgentGuard, MarkUp, Sidecast
Where the audience comes from.
Blog, GitHub, LinkedIn, podcast
Here are the eight that do the visible work. The other seven handle cleanup, monitoring, and other unsexy plumbing.
Daily brief, decisions, routing
Standup, context, keeping the system on
Runs the Autotrader. +34% YTD
Blog, SEO, LinkedIn, newsletter
Web scraping, summaries, competitors
CI/CD, deploys, build pipelines
Cron jobs, queues, always-on services
Portfolio numbers, trend detection
Small AI tools. One job each. Use them in the browser or install with pip.
$ pip install agentguard47Keeps AI agents from blowing your budget. One import, done.
$ pip install agentguard47Paste a URL. Get a summary, key points, and sentiment in seconds.
Four AI personas that react to your live podcast in real time.
last shipped 2026-04-11
Stanford, Karpathy, and Bridgewater independently confirmed that one person plus N agents is the right architecture. I have been running it for a holding company. Here is what it looks like.
NVIDIA Blackwell delivers 35x lower cost per token vs Hopper. That makes AI agents cheaper to run and harder to stop. Here's why that flips the runtime guard argument upside down.
Simon Willison frames AI-assisted security research as proof of work: more tokens in, more bugs found. That's an economic reality. Here's what the spend curve actually looks like and how to put a floor under it.
Flatiron Health toured AI-native startups in SF. One PM covers five companies, Claude Code is replacing Cursor, non-engineers are shipping production. I'm running the same model from Tennessee as a solo holding company. Here's what that actually looks like.
What I shipped, what I learned, and the numbers behind it. One email a week. Unsubscribe in one click.
How one human plus twelve AI agents runs a seven-pillar portfolio with no employees.