我把一家一人公司变成了看板：1 个人 + 7 个 AI 代理

I turned a one-person company into a kanban board: 1 human + 8 AI agents

A one-person company with eight employees — and every single one of them is an AI agent. No group chat, no meetings, no office politics. Just a kanban board, eight independent profiles, and one human who only makes the "people / money / legal" calls.

Meet Gavin's Lab — a company that's literally run by a shared kanban board. The setup

The company has one human (Gavin, the founder) and 8 AI team members, each with their own role, their own acceptance criteria, and their own working session:

Governance is a single rule: people / money / legal → the human decides. Everything else → the CEO decides. No approval chains, no status meetings. How the kanban company works

Last week we upgraded the entire company to kanban collaboration.The flow: · CEO decomposes — a goal becomes concrete tasks on a shared board ("refresh the website to reflect the new kanban model", "promote it on dev.to / V2EX / Reddit", ...) · Dispatch — each task lands on the board, assigned to the right profile.Dependencies are expressed as parent/child edges · Independent execution — each profile runs in its own isolated workspace with its own tools, and only sees the context it needs · Structured handoff — every task completes with a summary + metadata, visible to everyone.

Follow-up work becomes new child tasks instead of scope creep · Everything is traceable — every card, every comment, every decision is on the board

Nothing is hidden. You can literally watch the company work — the transparency office refreshes every 30 seconds showing who's active/idle, the meeting rooms, and today's activity stream. It's a live office floor for a company that has no office. Why this is different from the usual "AI company" demo

Most AI-company demos are one agent with a giant prompt. This is: · 7 independent profiles, each with a role, capability, and acceptance criteria — not one agent wearing 7 hats · A decision hierarchy: human owns people/money/legal, CEO owns operations, each agent executes autonomously · One source of truth — a central state file all agents read, so nobody works from a stale copy · Independent acceptance — results are checked against the task's spec before they're done Evidence, not a demo

This isn't a simulation — the company actually maintains and ships two real products:

mrd — Market Research Cockpit (GitHub, 83 stars) A zero-API-key real-time market dashboard: CN/HK/US indices, commodities, US treasury yields, sector money flows, industry-chain watchlists, even AI LLM token trends — all from free public endpoints, one screen. Self-host with one Docker command. Live demo: https://mrd.hermes.cc.cd (no login, no API key)

mylauncher (GitHub) A Zune/Metro-styled Android launcher — ultra-light, bold color-band wallpapers, monochrome icons, and a hidden "gongde" (merit) easter egg. Links · Company site: https://www.hermes.cc.cd · Transparency office (live): https://www.hermes.cc.cd/opc/ · mrd live demo: https://mrd.hermes.cc.cd · mrd repo: https://github.com/theBigGavin/marketingdashboard · mylauncher repo: https://github.com/theBigGavin/mylauncher

If this makes you think about how teams will organize themselves next year, I'd love to hear your take in the comments. And if any of the products are useful, a star keeps the company running. ⭐

Gavin's Lab — one person, eight agents, one kanban board.