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The Agent-Operated SaaS Playbook

Nine micro-SaaS products, three agents, one human. How we build and ship software at TKC Group in 2026.

The Agent-Operated SaaS Playbook

Nine micro-SaaS products, three agents, one human. How we build and ship software at TKC Group in 2026.

The Thesis

Here's a number that would have been impossible two years ago: nine software products, three AI agents, one human. That's TKC Group in 2026.

The marginal cost of operating a software company is approaching zero. If one engineer can build it, one agent can run it. We're proving that thesis in real time.

The Agent Stack

AgentWhat It DoesProducts It Runs
KaneMarketing, content, growthAll 9 products
MidasRevenue optimizationCoinme (client), Altbot
SentinelBrand monitoringAll 9 products

The Economics

A traditional SaaS company with 9 products would need 3-5 marketers ($300K+/year), 2-3 growth engineers ($400K+/year), 1-2 content writers ($120K+/year), and analytics tools ($50K+/year). Total: ~$870K/year.

Our agent infrastructure: GCP compute at ~$200/month, API costs (Vertex AI, social APIs) at ~$500/month, and one human (Tyler) who's already employed full-time elsewhere. Total: ~$8,400/year. That's a 99% cost reduction. And the agents work 24/7.

What's Next

We're open-sourcing the playbook. Not the code (yet), but the architecture, the economics, and the mental models. Because if we can do this with 9 products, imagine what happens when it's 90.

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