Agents are replacing
how work gets done.
We think it through in the open, and build the companies that prove it.
The work companies pay people to do is becoming software.
Hiring, support, operations, finance. The volume work that used to need a team now fits inside an instruction. Replace Ventures is where that shift gets thought through in the open: a point of view on agent-run work, written down as it happens.
The companies are the proof. Each one is its own business: separate, independent, built to stand on its own. Together they're the argument made real.
Read the thesis →The proof.
- 001Live · Scaling
AI-native HR operations for the agent era.
The HR stack hasn't changed since 2014. Five vendors, twelve dashboards, none of them talking. AI gets shipped as a side-panel chatbot on top of a database designed before chatbots existed. The meter runs on heads, not outcomes. You pay the same per-seat fee whether your team made one hire or a hundred, for software that does less per dollar every year. Recruiters spend more time reconciling tools than evaluating people. People-ops teams spend more time chasing data than supporting it. That's the problem worth deleting.
- 002Building
Reliable AI agents that operate companies. A desktop workplace where you hire your team, message them like coworkers, and let them run the work.
Built because every existing agent product is a demo pretending to be a product. Non-technical operators don't need another demo. They need agents they can trust.
An AI-native agentic studio. A small team that ships.
Replace Works designs and builds end to end — products, brand, content, infrastructure, and the things in between — and consults on the AI parts most get wrong: model selection, agent design, and evals. It also publishes the tool stack it uses to ship, in the open.
Custom AI features & agents
Model selection, retrieval, evals, and guardrails — the AI parts most teams get wrong.
AI-native product engineering
Full-stack and design-led, end to end. Products, brand, content, and the infrastructure between them.
Workflow & infrastructure consulting
For teams already shipping who need their AI stack to hold up in production.
Writing.
Why we're building the HR layer instead of another HR product.
On categories worth replacing, and how we picked the first one.
8 minThe shape of agent infrastructure we wish existed.
Notes on orchestration, evals, and what we are opening up.
12 minOne team, multiple companies. The case against the bench.
How a small senior team outproduces a staffed-up org.
6 min
The podcast.
Conversations with the operators, founders, and builders rewiring their work around agents. The same point of view as the writing, out loud. Launching soon.