Podcaster runs 50k-subscriber media business with AI agents as producers and marketers
hugobowne · x · 2026-09-16
Hugo Bowne-Anderson of Vanishing Gradients explains how he runs a media and education business reaching 50,000+ people with agents:
- An "AI executive producer" handles podcast production, with additional agents acting as marketers and domain experts
- His progression: doing it all himself → ChatGPT → a single agent → wiring operations into an agentic software factory
- He and @intellectronica are launching Factory Life: six free live sessions on what people are building with agents, featuring guests like Stefanie Hetjens on AI at media agency EVERYWOW
- No coding required to get started
Both a one-person-company case study and a referenceable agent-based operations workflow.
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