Meet My Chief of Staff

Meet My Chief of Staff

The best hire I made this year doesn’t have a LinkedIn profile.

I’ve been running an AI-powered Chief of Staff for a few months now. Built it myself. It knows my deals, tracks my LPs, manages my inbox, and briefs me every morning before I pick up my phone.

I’m a GP at FoundersEdge. That means sourcing deals, supporting founders, managing LP relationships, and trying to think clearly enough to make good bets. A lot of context to hold. Not my natural strength.

The traditional answer is hire a person. The 2026 answer is build the system.

Here’s what I’ve been able to offload:

• Deal pipeline updates. Done.
• LP follow-up drafts with actual context behind them. Done.
• Morning briefing with calendar, open loops, and what went stale overnight. Done.
• Inbox triage that knows the difference between urgent and noise. Done.

The shift isn’t from to-do lists to better to-do lists. It’s from to-do to to-done.

Under the hood

The core is the Claude Agents SDK running as a persistent CLI. I talk to it from a web app. It has memory across sessions so it knows what happened yesterday, who I’m meeting next, which deals went quiet.

The integrations are wired together via MCP (Model Context Protocol), which is Anthropic’s standard for connecting AI agents to external tools. Airtable, Attio CRM, Gmail, Google Calendar, all plugged in. The agent can read a calendar event, pull the founder’s CRM record, draft prep notes, and send them to my phone, all from a single prompt.

That last part is real. It texts me via iMessage. Not a notification. An actual blue bubble or 👍 when something needs attention.

Model-wise it runs Claude by default, but I’ve wired in support for OpenCode and local models via Ollama for tasks where I want speed or privacy. Different jobs, different models.

The whole thing is a collection of markdown, scripts, a custom dashboard, and agent definitions that I’ve been iterating on for months. Nothing exotic, yet it feels like magic.

I’m building this in public. More posts and videos coming. If you’re a founder or investor drowning in dropped balls and context-switching, pay attention. This stuff is more accessible than it looks.

What are you using to close your own loops?