Cohort program · limited to 50 founders

Architect of a Zero-Human Company

We design a company that runs without you in operations. Marketing, sales, support, administration and finance — on AI agents. The agent team takes operations; you stay CEO and set the direction.

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26 agents running operationsup to 50 founders per cohort13 weeks + week 0 5 modules · 4 checkpoints

How this program is different

Five modules over 13 weeks plus a prep week: from a map of your company to a team of agents you actually trust. Not an autopilot "without you", but managed operations under your control. Everything is deployed on your own cloud server with open tools, so you can take the system with you.

Trust is earned

Agents gain autonomy step by step, after four checkpoints.

We show our kitchen

LeadUp AI is run by a team of agents on the very tools we teach: Paperclip, Hermes, OpenClaw and n8n. You see the breakdown: what works, what broke, what we handed back to humans.

Laws across countries

You build a compliance matrix for your clients' markets, wherever you live.

The tools are yours

The server, the keys and the data belong to you — not to the course platform.

Four checkpoints

Each checkpoint verifies the system is ready for the next level of agent autonomy. If you miss the first time, there is one revision within a week.

1wk 2

Process map and decision matrix

First agent in reporting mode

2wk 4

Agent running, action log kept, limits on

Low-risk actions

3wk 8

Model choice, spend control, audit

Actions within approved boundaries

4wk 13

Compliance matrix and project defence

Plan to expand autonomy

Five modules

63 lessons, 8–12 minutes each · 11-week core

01Module 1. Foundation: what to hand over to agentsWeeks 1–211 lessonsTemplates and tables

You break your company down as a system of processes, measure what the routine actually costs, and decide what can go to agents and what must stay with you.

Outcome: a process map, an applicability score and a decision matrix.

01What a zero-human company is made of

02Where the model works and where it breaks

03Scoring: is your business a fit

04How to read cases: proven, claimed, unknown

05Flow map: how work moves through your company

06Who does what and where manual work hides

07Measurement: how much time routine really takes

08Agent economics: what a completed task costs

09What always stays with a human

10Decision matrix: what an agent does on its own vs with your approval

11Minimum compliance: AI disclosure, data, consent

02Module 2. Core: your first agent, memory and model choiceWeeks 3–516 lessonsPaperclip · Hermes · n8n · Claude Code · Codex

You launch your first agent in Paperclip, give it your company knowledge base, and choose an AI model by testing it on your own tasks — not by leaderboards.

Outcome: an agent in reporting mode, a regulation base, a decision log and a model-choice matrix.

01An automation scenario or an agent: which fits you

02Triggers, conditions, actions

03The four files an agent is made of

04The loop: assess — decide — execute — measure

05First agent: Hermes in Paperclip

06Why agents make mistakes without context

07The regulations an agent works by

08Knowledge base: where your company knowledge lives

09Decision log: the memory of the whole company

10How to make an agent answer from your documents

11Which AI model to pick: an overview

12Testing models on your 30–50 real tasks

13Where your data lives and who sees it

14Model routing and the cost of a completed task

15What to do if a model is unavailable in your country

16Agent budget: limits, the 80% threshold and the kill switch

03Module 3. Departments on agentsWeeks 6–818 lessonsn8n · OpenClaw · HermesAcquisition channel starts week 3

You put two processes into production: a client department for your vertical and financial reporting. In parallel you launch an acquisition channel and see how our own operations are built.

Module goal: two processes run under a decision log, and the board gets a weekly report.

Client department — lessons picked for your vertical

01Where leads get lost

02Lead capture and auto-qualification

03The customer path from payment to first result

04The first front-agent in chat: boundaries and tone

05Clean escalations to a human

06Early warning on risky customers

07AI disclosure to customers and multilingual support

08The human exception: when to hire people

Finance

09A weekly report for the board

10Invoices and payment reminders

11An anomaly-detection agent

12Taxes and customers paying from different countries

Acquisition

13Choosing a channel for your market

14A content pipeline under the founder's control

15Positioning and honesty about AI

16Your first 10 customers: what not to hand to agents

LeadUp AI from the inside

17How our operations work: departments, agents, loops

18What worked, what broke, what we returned to humans

Additionally: The program also includes an optional library: administration and contracts, the founder's assistant, extended marketing and industry cases.

04Module 4. Control: stay in charge and stay compliantWeeks 9–109 lessonsPaperclip: budgets, logs, fallback adapters

You learn to keep the system under control and understand what rules apply in your clients' markets, wherever you live.

Outcome: a compliance matrix for your company and a requirements register in the knowledge base.

01Reliability: retries, fallback models, emergency mode

02Incidents: how to investigate a failure

03Four axes of jurisdiction: client, data, provider, company

04EU: AI Act and GDPR — what applies to your company

05US and UK: the map of approaches

06Countries with data residency and AI-content labelling

07Deal and service restrictions: sanctions, export control, provider terms

08Workshop: the compliance matrix for your company

09Keeping up with changing laws: a requirements register in the knowledge base

05Module 5. Orchestration: assembling the whole companyWeeks 11–139 lessonsPaperclip

You design the agent org chart, assemble a control centre and defend your project in front of the cohort.

Outcome: a dashboard, a board report and a 90-day plan.

01Org chart: board, CEO-agent, departments, executors

02Start with three to five agents

03Clean handoffs and shared context

04How several agents work together

05Control centre: metrics, spend, incidents

06A report for the board

07Growth without growing headcount

08A plan for the next 90 days

09Preparing for the defence

The course stack

The tools we work on and teach you, and the workshops inside the live sessions.

Orchestrator

Paperclip

Agent org chart, roles, budgets, action log, a single dashboard.

Agents

Hermes, OpenClaw

Hermes is the primary front-agent, keeping memory and skills; OpenClaw is used for comparison in chats and messengers.

Executors

Claude Code, Codex, Grok

Connected to Paperclip via adapters. Grok uses the community adapter.

Processes

n8n

Integrations, CRM leads, reports.

Everything is deployed on your own cloud server (VPS) in week 0.

The tools are open and run on your keys. Server and API costs are separate; you set the spending limits.

Tool versions are pinned for the duration of the cohort.

The program's principles are not tied to tools: when a tool changes, you migrate the logic instead of starting over.

Tool lab

Seven workshops inside live sessions: you work on your own server and on your own business tasks.

Week0

Server

VPS, security checklist, Paperclip, Hermes, keys and spending limits.

Week3

First agent

Hermes in Paperclip in reporting mode, agent files, wake schedule.

Week4

Processes on n8n

A scenario from trigger to action: CRM lead, weekly report.

Week5

Adapters and model choice

We compare Claude Code, Codex, Hermes across providers and Grok via the community adapter on your 30–50 tasks. We set budget limits.

Week7

Hermes as front-agent

The primary front-agent in the customer chat is Hermes; OpenClaw is for comparison. Boundaries, escalations, isolation.

Week9

Control and failures

Log, audit, fallback adapters, emergency stop.

Week11

Org chart and dashboard

Agent org chart, CEO-agent, control centre.

What you take away

a working server with a system of agents

a process map and an applicability score

a decision matrix: what an agent does on its own vs with your approval

an AI model-choice matrix

a compliance matrix for your clients' markets

a board report, a dashboard and a 90-day plan

Why us

Not "selling theory"

We build exactly what we live by.

Operating proof

LeadUp AI is run by a team of AI agents built on the open Paperclip orchestration platform, Hermes and OpenClaw agents, and n8n processes. This is our current operation, not a presentation of the future.

Honest about the limits

Strategy, brand voice and key decisions stay with you. Agents execute under supervision. Anyone selling "fully without you" is selling a fairy tale.

Secure by default

Read-only access by default, an action log, approvals on critical paths, and personal-data protection (GDPR) principles.

Instructor

Who leads the program

Vladimir Nagin

CEO & Founder · LeadUp AI

Entrepreneur and AI automation expert. Built LeadUp AI — a platform for launching multi-agent teams with no code. 20+ years in marketing, MBA, corporate AI programs for companies.

20+

years in marketing

50+

AI deployments in businesses

500+

intensive participants

Limited to 50 founders per cohort.Leave a request: we'll send the intake terms and a Q&A slot first.

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Format

Workload and costs

Workload

5–7 hours a week

Lessons of 8–12 minutes, a weekly 90-minute live session in two time slots (recorded), 3–4 hours of practice on your own business. Week 0 needs another 3–5 hours.

Live sessions

weekly, 90 minutes
two time slots
recording stays with you
practice on your own business

Infrastructure costs

The cloud server and model APIs are paid separately. We'll give an indicative estimate for the server and model spend before the cohort starts; you set the limits.

Week 0

Preparing the server

Before the start we deploy the working environment on your cloud server (VPS) — together, in a live session, following a step-by-step guide and a ready deployment template.

Week 0 outcome: a working server hardened against the security checklist, Paperclip running, Hermes connected, keys issued and provider spending limits set.

Server security

SSH-key login, password login disabled
Firewall: only SSH and HTTPS exposed to the outside
Agent panel local-only, reachable via a secure tunnel or Tailscale
Keys stored in environment variables, not in plain files

What you'll need

a VPS provider account and a bank card for payment
a key for at least one AI model provider
3–5 hours of prep, including one live installation session

Server guide: from 4 vCPU and 8 GB RAM for the whole stack

Minimum: Paperclip — 2 vCPU / 4 GB

Hermes — from 2 GB RAM

Who it's for

Is this program a fit

A fit

If you own or lead a business with customers and processes, want to hand operations to agents, and are ready to make decisions like a board of directors.

No programming required: the workshop runs on two levels — no-code and technical. We help with the server in a live session.

Not a fit

If you're looking for a "switch it on and it runs without me" button, can't set aside at least 3 hours a week, or don't want to work with a cloud server even with step-by-step help.

If you don't yet have customers or processes — there's a training company case for that, but real-business results will be smaller.

Frequently asked

Is it really "without people"?

Strategy, brand voice and key decisions stay with you. AI agents take operations under supervision. "Fully without you" doesn't exist — and we say so honestly.

How much does the program cost?

We'll announce the price of the next cohort at the start of intake. Leave a request — we'll send the terms and a Q&A slot first.

Who is it for?

Owners of small and mid-sized businesses, services and shops who want to hand operations to agents and decide like a board of directors instead of growing headcount for routine.

Do I need a technical background?

No. The program runs from a process map to Paperclip: the workshop works on two levels — no-code and technical. We help with the server deployment in the week-0 live session.

What happens after the program?

The server, keys and data stay with you, not the course platform. You leave with a dashboard, a board report and a 90-day plan. On request — a workflows export so you can run the system yourself.

Don't want to build the system yourself? We'll build it for you — done-for-you.

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