§0 The Operator's Log
One operator. Five ventures. A fleet that does the work.
I run a services firm and four software ventures with managed AI teams, all of it orchestrated by an engine I built. This is the weekly record of what the fleet ships and what it costs. Real numbers, real artifacts.
— Todd Hebebrand
20.0×
Leverage
548
Fleet hours
27
Operator hours
207
Shipped
Latest entry · 2026-W35. How these are counted →
The series W24 → W35 · 13 entries
The numbers as a table
| Week | Fleet h | Operator h | Leverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-W24 (reconstructed) | 70 | 19 | 3.7× |
| 2026-W24 | 446 | 43 | 10.5× |
| 2026-W25 | 433 | 43 | 10.1× |
| 2026-W26 | 368 | 38 | 9.6× |
| 2026-W27 | 380 | 39 | 9.8× |
| 2026-W28 | 430 | 28 | 15.3× |
| 2026-W29 | 493 | 39 | 12.5× |
| 2026-W30 | 257 | 19 | 13.6× |
| 2026-W31 | 384 | 25 | 15.3× |
| 2026-W32 | 404 | 28 | 14.6× |
| 2026-W33 | 381 | 28 | 13.7× |
| 2026-W34 | 348 | 24 | 14.7× |
| 2026-W35 | 548 | 27 | 20.0× |
The operation 6 ventures · 1 engine
- OliveTech The managed-services firm. Running other people's systems since 2007; the discipline everything else inherits.
- LanternOps Managed AI teams for professional firms. The shop you're standing in.
- Breeze Open-source, AI-native RMM for MSPs and IT teams.
- Pressless Describe your website, AI builds it. WordPress migration is the wedge.
- Delegant Identity and governance for AI agents in Microsoft 365.
- Hive The engine, not a product. Persistent agent colonies that run the rest: fleet-monitor, alert-router, email-triage, code-reviewer.
- Entry 013 Week twelve: twenty to one The week ending August 30. 548 fleet hours against 27 of mine, twenty to one, the widest gap on the strip and the biggest fleet week I have counted. Breeze shipped AI agents that run in shadow and act only inside a closed manifest. Pressless imports from five platforms. And a fix that claimed to fix a leak did nothing.
20.0×·207 shipped·2026-W35
Aug 31, 2026 → - Entry 012 Week eleven: agents that can propose but not decide The week ending August 23. 348 fleet hours against 24 of mine, nearly fifteen to one. Breeze started building AI agents as first-class principals with their own ledger, learned eight currencies, and let partners bring their own model keys. Pressless got agencies. Two integration merges got reverted.
14.7×·260 shipped·2026-W34
Aug 24, 2026 → - Entry 011 Week ten: the AI broke its own scripts The week ending August 16. 381 fleet hours against 28 of mine. Breeze got a real software library, a proposal system, and the ability to ship its own signed builds to self-hosters. Hive got a CRM built in a week. And AI-written PowerShell was failing on characters the AI had chosen.
13.7×·305 shipped·2026-W33
Aug 17, 2026 → - Entry 010 Week nine: the migration guides The week ending August 9. 404 fleet hours against 28 of mine. Breeze built the road in from other RMMs, Pressless survived a full security review, Hive learned to switch models, and a database pool quietly poisoned itself.
14.6×·271 shipped·2026-W32
Aug 10, 2026 → - Entry 009 Week eight: seven waves The week ending August 2. The fleet worked 384 hours against 25 of mine, better than fifteen to one, and the gap is a remediation program that ran in waves. Breeze closed six security waves in one week, Hive moved its configuration into the product, and forty AI tools turned out to be dead.
15.3×·328 shipped·2026-W31
Aug 3, 2026 → - Entry 008 Week seven: half a week, on purpose The week ending July 26. Both columns fell by about half: 257 fleet hours against 19 of mine. The ratio held near thirteen. Breeze got a home dashboard that tells the truth, Hive got one approval path instead of four, and a docs reorganization quietly rewrote a shipped migration.
13.6×·161 shipped·2026-W30
Jul 27, 2026 → - Entry 007 Week six: the idea I stopped looking at The week ending July 19. The fleet worked 493 hours against 39 of mine. Breeze shipped eight releases in seven days and broke one of them on the way out. Strata, the thing I said I had stopped looking at, got two hundred commits and its first real result.
12.5×·387 shipped·2026-W29
Jul 20, 2026 → - Entry 006 Week five: the ceiling moved The week ending July 12. The fleet worked 430 hours against 28 of mine, the widest gap yet, and the reason is a security review that ran itself. Breeze closed a twelve-finding OAuth audit, hardened the agent trust boundary, and started speaking four new languages.
15.3×·102 shipped·2026-W28
Jul 13, 2026 → - Entry 005 Week four: one policy, every org The week ending July 5. Breeze stopped treating an MSP as a pile of separate customers and let one policy own the whole book of business. The money side grew deposits and scheduled reports, and Hive turned the lights on in its own house.
9.8×·141 shipped·2026-W27
Jul 6, 2026 → - Entry 004 Week three: hardening the house The week ending June 28. After building the money side, Breeze spent the week locking the doors: a security and authorization sweep, vulnerability management, EDR, and a framework upgrade under the whole thing. And the brand I called out last week as the model's default finally became a choice.
9.6×·201 shipped·2026-W26
Jun 29, 2026 → - Entry 003 Week two: Breeze learns to get paid The week ending June 21. Breeze grew the whole money side of a business in seven days, quotes, invoices, contracts, and a catalog, while the engine taught itself to run live agents from a dashboard and LanternOps started teaching in public.
10.1×·189 shipped·2026-W25
Jun 22, 2026 → - Entry 002 Week one: the engine keeps the books The first full week the fleet counted itself, June 8 to 14. A heavy one: Breeze shipped v0.70.0 with native ticketing, privileged access, and an in-Excel client assistant, while the engine grew two new triage colonies of its own.
10.5×·108 shipped·2026-W24
Jun 15, 2026 → - Entry 001 What the fleet already built The record starts here. Before week one of the log: a brand built in two days, an open-source RMM with 1,300+ commits, three more products in flight, and the engine that runs it all. Reconstructed numbers, honestly marked.
3.7×·82 shipped·2026-W24reconstructed
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