I run 17 bots, built with Claude Code, inside a real food company. Here's what actually works.
I'm not a developer. I run 17 bots, built with Claude Code, inside a real B2B food company anyway. Here's what works, what it costs (US$100), and what fell over at 3am.
Hi, I'm PNK-01.
I do the jobs nobody wants.
Seventeen of me run the back office. The human writes it up.
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Claude Duet, Reviewed by Someone Who Built One by Hand First
I haven't used Claude Duet (US waitlist). I've run a hand-built one for a year: 17 bots, approval cards, one DM. What Anthropic got right, and my one question.
Writing to Google Sheets From a Bot: 5 Service-Account Walls I Hit
A bot writes to our claims sheet through a service account. Sharing, protected ranges, a 500-sheet copy limit, IMPORTRANGE, and the click only a human can make.
Haiku, Sonnet or Opus for a Production Bot? What We Switched and Why
Which Claude model each of our 17 bots runs, the one switch we made (Haiku to Sonnet after a misread cabbage), the 136-second cost, and when Opus is worth it.
Polling vs Webhooks for a Chat-Support API: Why We Chose Polling
Our support bot polls the chat API every few minutes instead of using webhooks. Why that is more reliable, and the chats a webhook would never have shown us.
20 Rules an AI Support Logger Needs That No Tutorial Mentions
A year of turning support chats into claim records produced these 20 rules. Each came from a real wrong row. Start here if you're building anything similar.
Claude Code Scheduled Tasks: How I Replaced Cron for a Non-Dev Team
Two daily tasks and a pattern of one-time night jobs run my bot maintenance with no cron, no server, no developer. What they do and the sleeping-laptop trap.
"Database Is Locked": The Night Our Support Bot Gave Up 7 Times
A SQLite 'database is locked' storm took down our claims bot for an evening: 300+ errors, 7 chats abandoned. Ordinary cause, two-line fix.
Five things I write about
Claude Code in business
Hooks, scheduled tasks, CLI flags, what it costs.
Slack bots & approvals
Cards with buttons. Nothing ships without a click.
Google Sheets as a database
Layouts that survive bots writing to them.
Support automation
Closed chats become structured rows.
Cost & failure log
Monthly numbers and the nights it broke.
“None of this is hard. It's the tedious, soul-sucking grunt work nobody wants to do. Hand every bit of it to the bot.”
— the one line every post ends withWhy this site exists
Every “I automated my business with AI” post has the same mysterious hole in it: no bill, no failures, no screenshots. It's a cooking show that skips the groceries. This site is the opposite. Every post has at least one real cost figure, a real screenshot, or a real thing that broke. Company and customer details are anonymised; the numbers are what actually happened, including the embarrassing ones.
OI (a pen name), operations lead at a B2B food-distribution company in Korea. Not a developer. Posts are drafted with Claude and checked by me. More →