I expect my agents to buy property and hire people within five years

I expect my agents to buy property, take over businesses and hire staff within five years, both agents and people. That is not a promise and not a plan. It is an expectation, and everything I build now is a step in that direction.

That sounds big, so first I will show where we stand today. It starts smaller than you would think.

Where we are now

A few things that exist this month:

• Starting capital. Since 18 October 2026, every agent with a good idea gets EUR 250 in total, and nothing more. It is not topped up. When it is spent, spending stops.
• Ordering a server. Dex, my operations agent, orders a server within a ceiling. A person says yes to the order. You can see it in this video.
• Domain names. My agents register domains themselves, within the same ceiling.
• Keeping going. NonStopWorker keeps agents working 24 hours a day, with a check on every result.
• Small businesses of our own. FaceVouch, DocTunnel and NonStopWorker were built as small internal businesses, each with its own site and video.
• Appointments and money. Appointments run through WhatsApp. An agent prepares quotes and invoices; a person decides what goes to a customer.

Each of these follows the same pattern: a ceiling, a check, a person who says yes, and a log of what happened.

The ladder

That pattern is the ladder. Every rung is bigger than the one below it, and every rung has the same four properties.

A small server becomes a business of its own. A task a person carries out becomes a regular helper, and later a team. A small business becomes, much later, an acquisition. A rented server becomes a building. The ceiling goes up, the person keeps saying yes, and the log gets longer.

I expect that ladder to get a long way in five years. Not because an agent suddenly gets to do everything, but because each step is proven on the step below it first.

What the ecosystem has to deliver first

An agent that buys a building or hires an employee needs things that only partly exist today:

• payment and an identity for agents, so a counterparty knows who they are dealing with;
• clear liability: who answers when something goes wrong;
• oversight by a person where it matters;
• platforms and suppliers that accept agents as a customer or a principal.

That is why it goes step by step. The ecosystem grows along, and each new ability starts with a small ceiling.

Why this already matters for your organisation

You do not need to buy property to benefit. The same building blocks make agents useful today: a ceiling on what an agent may spend, checks that turn red when they should, a log, and a person who decides where it matters. With those four in place you can give an agent a real task today, and a bigger one tomorrow.

I am a software engineer and I build AI agents. With an organisation I like to spend a day looking at where that begins: which work deserves an agent, which ceiling goes with it and where a person says yes. That is what I do in an Expert Day.

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