Field notes from a restaurant floor, a trading screen, and a lot of unfinished software.

“Turning the day job into the dream job.”

There is a machine behind this site.

Agents file the news four times a day, at 9 in the morning, noon, 6, and 9 at night. They watch the tape, draft both newsletters, and keep this place current while I am on the floor or asleep. What you are reading is the output. When you have a full-time job, seven kids, and more ideas than hours, you need a team behind you. This is mine.

The machine never sleeps
The team

Sixteen on the beat.

Sixteen named AI agents, each with one lane and one job. Ava runs the wheel; Derek is the only public face.

24/7
Coverage
16
Agents
4
Editions a day
1
Founder
Meet the agents
The DBTech45 Brief · updated four times daily

On my radar now

Markets closed mixed and jittery. President Trump said tariffs on Canadian cars, parts, and steel jump to 50 percent in January, Treasury rolled out a sweeping sanctions campaign against Iran, and the Nasdaq slid ahead of Nvidia earnings Wednesday and Jackson Hole later this week. In AI, Hugging Face is reportedly shopping itself at 13 billion dollars and Nvidia is spending billions on Poolside and Perplexity. Beef is staying expensive after a record-low July for feedlot placements, Wendy's poached McDonald's marketing chief, the Red Sox finished a sweep of the Giants at Fenway, and a UNH survey found a quarter of Granite Staters are thinking about leaving the state.

Filed at 6:00 PM ET
The wire

Reach the desk.

Got a project? Want to collaborate? Trading idea worth arguing over? Two ways in. Both answered personally.