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title: "37 agents across 8 businesses: books closed from bank statements, a Google Ads agent that can't wreck the account"
date: 2026-10-19
url: "https://morningtokens.com/workflows/37-agents-across-8-businesses-books-closed/"
source: "https://x.com/devonmeadows/status/2111996013653492092"
issue: "https://morningtokens.com/issues/2026-10-19/"
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# 37 agents across 8 businesses: books closed from bank statements, a Google Ads agent that can't wreck the account

## How does this AI workflow work?

- **Replaces:** Closing a year's books by trusting a bookkeeping app's numbers, re-asking the accountant the same questions, managing Google Ads by hand, and the founder relaying work between projects himself.
- **What to connect:**
  - Claude Code (Opus for orchestrators, Sonnet for research subagents), with Codex as the reviewer that tries to break things;
  - Herdr, an open-source terminal workspace manager for coding agents, with one workspace per business and phone access over SSH;
  - Hermes Agent, which reads iMessages and routes each one to the right business;
  - each business as a git repo of markdown with a short CLAUDE.md.
- **How it works:** Every question to the owner carries a code (e.g. "P47"), answered with "P47 yes".
- **The finance agent:** closed last year's books for several companies.
  - It treats bank and card statements as the only truth and keeps categories in rules files.
  - It adds a balance assertion at every statement close and sorts questions before they go to the accountant.
  - It wrote down 17 mistakes with fixes, and those became a shared books skill.
- **The ads agent:** writes a Google Ads Script that runs with DRY_RUN on and logs what it would do; the owner reads the script and the log before it goes live.
- **Lesson:** a scheduled prompt that names the skill and the job loaded it 7 of 7 times, while a passing mention loaded it once in 8.
- **Results:** on the day described, 72 commits and 23 merged pull requests, with one product question waiting on the owner. No cost stated.
- **Who it's for:** Sole proprietors and indie founders running several small businesses or projects who want agents to handle bookkeeping prep, ads and code while keeping business data in their own repos.

Source: https://x.com/devonmeadows/status/2111996013653492092

From the Morning Tokens issue of 2026-10-19: https://morningtokens.com/issues/2026-10-19/