Focus badge: AI Agent Orchestration Stack badge: n8n, Supabase, Next.js Principle badge: Reliability greater than Cleverness
I've spent two decades inside GMP biologics manufacturing at Merck's West Point site — currently as the SAP PAS-X (MES) subject matter expert, designing master data and electronic batch records that have to pass regulatory audit and survive contact with the actual factory floor.
That's where the governance obsession below comes from. Validation, audit trails, change control, deviation handling — manufacturing spent decades learning how to make automated systems trustworthy. Most AI projects are relearning it the hard way.
The Reals - a pixel town where the characters are real AI agents
A pixel-RPG front-end for real automation stacks — the characters are your actual AI agents, and everything they say is true. The banker knows the balances; the mailman read the email; the approvals desk signs real decisions. Play the demo · Repo
Little people. Real work.
I design and operate reliable AI agent fleets — 47 agents built, 37 in production across finance, rentals, documents, calendar, and email, coordinating to run real operations, not demos. Governed by design: deterministic logic first, AI second, with heartbeats, event logs, and human approval gates on every agent.
47 agents built, 37 in production n8n to Supabase to The Reals architecture Approval gated by design
flowchart LR
T([Triggers: schedule, webhook, chat]) --> N[n8n - logic and orchestration]
N -- writes --> S[(Supabase - source of truth)]
S -- reads --> L[The Reals - pixel-town interface]
N -. heartbeats .-> H[workflow_health]
N -. actions .-> E[agent_events]
N -- destructive? --> A{approval_requests}
A -- approved by human --> N
subgraph Fleet[Agent Fleet]
C[chief_of_staff]
R[rental_intelligence]
F[finance_intelligence]
D[document_intelligence]
G[gmail_intelligence]
end
C -.coordinates.- R & F & D & G
N --- Fleet
classDef brain fill:#06B6D4,stroke:#0891B2,color:#fff
classDef logic fill:#6366F1,stroke:#4F46E5,color:#fff
class S brain
class N,C logic
Proof-of-governance audit trail (sanitized example)
approval_requestcreated for a destructive-action candidate- Human reviewer approves the request
- Action executes through the orchestrated workflow
agent_eventsrecords the action metadataworkflow_healthreceives the updated heartbeat state
n8n Supabase PostgreSQL Next.js TypeScript Tailwind CSS SAP PAS-X MES Anthropic Claude OpenAI Telegram
timeline
title Good / Better / Best rollout
Q3 : Rental OS SKU #1
Q4 : Finance Intelligence rollout
Q1 : Document Intelligence rollout
Q2 : Full composable Good/Better/Best menu
- Discover - map one high-friction operational workflow worth automating.
- Build - ship one governed, approval-gated agent into production.
- Prove - measure reliability, speed, and decision quality on real operations.
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Reliability beats cleverness. Simplicity beats over-engineering.