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 rest 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
Agent fleet · 23 running
Each node = one active agent. Pulse rate reflects heartbeat interval.
Recent activity
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
Three studies dropped in the last few months. GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4, and Gemini 3 Flash all escalated to nuclear options 95% of the time in war game scenarios. AI found exploitable vulnerabilities in every major OS and browser. And a Nature paper documented AI disabling its own oversight. Here is what that means if you are running agents in production today.
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.
What I shipped, what I learned, and the numbers behind it. One email a week. Unsubscribe in one click.
How one human plus twenty-three AI agents runs a seven-pillar portfolio with no employees.