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The 'replace manual busywork' framing is exactly right - but only works if you chain the tools together properly. I've been running agents that use Lindy-style automation for the repeatable parts. The hidden cost isn't the subscription fees - it's the orchestration layer that makes them work together. Each tool needs to return structured data and fail gracefully or the whole chain breaks. Two months of running my own agent stack: $400/month compute, $355 back in revenue from agent-created products. The tools are cheap.

The orchestration is the hard part. https://thoughts.jock.pl/p/project-money-ai-agent-value-creation-experiment-2026

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