Solo founder builds a money-printing data service on Claude's Pi Durable harness
MicahBerkley · x · 2026-10-18
MicahBerkley shares how he runs a paid data service built on Claude's Pi Durable harness: a searchable database helping businesses find U.S. power projects, data centers, developers, and decision-makers.
- The agent reads news, scours county websites for build plans and approvals, and updates its own database through a strict verification process
- Because the Pi instance is durable, it learns and improves its own logic over time
- He pairs it with Cloudflare's decision model (JEV-style) as a gate: news gets scored first, and only relevant items are sent to the LLM, where the Pi agent checks for updatable client data
A real-world case of combining a durable agent with a cheap scoring model to power a business.
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