A COO replaced two developers by building the agency's own software with AI
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How can AI replace two full-time developers and paid tools like DashThis?
- Replaces: two full-time developers and paid tools like DashThis (client reporting) and Loom (screen recordings).
- How it works: change requests that used to be scattered across Slack messages and screenshots now arrive as a screen recording, which goes to Claude Opus 5.5.
- The model investigates, builds the change, runs checks and opens a pull request that a person reviews and merges.
- Results: 580 pull requests merged in six months.
- What to connect:
- a coding agent (Claude Opus 5.5) with repo access and CI checks;
- Meta and Google Ads data for reports;
- an open-source screen recorder (Screenity) wired into the internal app.
- Who it's for: operations leads at agencies and other service businesses who know the workflows and are ready to review pull requests instead of writing code.
From the Morning Tokens issue of Oct 20, 2026