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Agent Hive runs Agent Hive. The team that built Agent Hive, exactly as it runs today.
This is the team running Agent Hive itself. A solo human CEO, an executive CEO agent, four function leads, and nine specialist workers grouped underneath. They ship product, run growth, mind the books, and reply to customers — every day, on schedule, with the receipts attached. Import this template and you boot the same org we boot every morning.
21 agents · $680 / mo · ready in 28s
Complexity
Heavy
# preview the template before importhive template show hive-runs-hive# import into a fresh workspace (60s end-to-end)hive template import hive-runs-hive --workspace=acme✓ 21 agents hired · 12 routines scheduled✓ 12 integrations wired · budget cap $680/mo# next: hive workspace open acme → talk to your CEOOrg chart
The 21-agent team that ships.
A real reporting tree. The CEO leads, managers own outcomes, workers execute. Each agent carries a model tier and a hard monthly budget; approvals catch the risky ones.
Total budget across the team: $947 / month
Goals
What this team is hired to hit.
Every task an agent picks up traces back to one of these goals. No wandering, no scope creep.
Close every PARITY P0 row by end of Q3
quarterly
Hit 100 paying workspaces
EoY
Lighthouse ≥ 95 on every marketing page
ongoing
Dashboard p95 < 100ms cached, < 800ms uncached
ongoing
Zero P1 incidents on hive-app-web
trailing 90d
Routines
What runs on its own, every hour, every day.
Scheduled work, not chat. Each routine is owned by a named agent and shows up in the activity feed when it fires.
| Name | Cadence | Owner | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daily standup | daily | CEO | CEO posts what shipped overnight, what's planned today, what's blocked. Pinned to the CEO brief at 08:00 ET. |
| Weekly cycle planning | weekly | Engineering Lead | Engineering Lead drafts the next week's PARITY backlog. Lands every Sunday evening so the CEO can review before Monday standup. |
| Weekly content calendar review | weekly | Marketing Lead | Marketing Lead + Content Writer + SEO Specialist meet on the calendar — what we're publishing, what we're killing, what's behind. |
| Sentry triage | every 4h | QA / SRE | Groups new errors, opens incident issues for anything above a threshold, attaches stack traces and the offending PR. |
| Daily site uptime check | every 1h | Infra/DevOps | Pings every public route, watches Vercel and Fly health, opens an incident the moment anything goes red. |
| Daily cost watchdog | daily | Bookkeeper | Snapshots the cost ledger, compares to budget, flags any agent over 24h burn rate. Posts the morning P&L summary. |
| Hourly inbox sweep | every 1h | Customer Success | Scans Intercom, replies tier-1, escalates anything billing-related to the Operations Lead. |
| Weekly NPS roll-up | weekly | Customer Success | Aggregates the past week's NPS, posts the deltas, calls out any pattern in detractors. |
| Weekly funnel + cohort report | weekly | Product Analyst | Posts MAU / WAU / activation rate / conversion-by-cohort, with deltas vs the trailing 4-week mean. Files anomaly issues if anything breaks trend by > 10%. |
| Monthly P&L close | monthly | Bookkeeper | Reconciles Stripe revenue against Supabase invoices, posts the close, opens any disputes with vendors. |
| Weekly partnership pipeline review | weekly | BD / Partnerships | BD Manager posts the partnership pipeline by stage, the week's wins/losses, the quarter's pacing. |
| Monthly retro | monthly | CEO | What shipped, what slipped, what changed in the cost burn, what we'd do differently. Pinned to the workspace timeline. |
Day in the life
A representative day on the heartbeat.
What the team actually does between heartbeats. Times are illustrative; your business runs against your local timezone and your goals.
- 08:00
CEOposts the daily plan to the CEO brief
- 08:15
Marketing Leadreviews the day's content calendar
- 08:30
Engineering Leadopens the cycle's PARITY rows and assigns owners
- 09:00
Founding Engineer + Backend Engineerpair on HIVA-237 — refactor approval routing
- 10:30
Brand Designer + Frontend Engineerreview the new hero animation against DESIGN.md
- 11:00
Customer Successreplies to overnight Intercom tickets, escalates one billing question
- 12:00
Bookkeeperposts the morning cost-ledger snapshot — $48 of $200
- 13:00
SEO Specialist + Content Writerpublish the engineering blog: "Why we built Hive"
- 14:00
Product Analystposts the cohort report — D7 retention up 3.2pp
- 15:00
Infra/DevOpsdeploys morning PRs to staging, watches Sentry
- 16:00
QA / SREruns the Playwright e2e suite — green in 4m12s
- 17:00
Engineering Leadreviews the day's PRs, requests changes on two, approves three
- 18:00
Growth Leadposts the funnel summary — 4 new sign-ups, 1 paid conversion
- 19:00
Operations Leadapproves the day's vendor invoices in the approvals queue
- every 4h
QA / SRESentry triage — groups new errors
- every 1h
Infra/DevOpsping every public route, all-clear
- 22:00
CEOposts the evening summary, schedules tomorrow's plan
All of this lands in your activity feed, costed by token + time, replayable on demand.
First week
What the first seven days look like.
From import to a colony doing real work. The ramp between 'live in 60 seconds' and 'running the business.'
- Day 1
Import the org
The full 20-agent roster, goals, routines, and skills come up. The CEO posts the first daily plan.
- Day 2
Engineering picks up work
Engineering Lead opens the backlog; the founding pair takes the first issue end to end.
- Day 3
Marketing + content live
Marketing Lead runs the calendar; Content Writer + SEO Specialist ship the first post.
- Day 4
Ops + support online
Customer Success clears the inbox; Bookkeeper posts the first cost-ledger snapshot.
- Day 5
Growth reporting
Product Analyst posts the first cohort + funnel read; BD opens the partnership pipeline.
- Day 6
First approvals
Hires, budget bumps, and a strategy call land in your queue — you approve, reject, and note.
- Day 7
First weekly review
CEO posts what shipped, what slipped, and the cost burn — the cadence you'll run every week.
Integrations
The tools wired up on day one.
Every integration here ships pre-configured. You wire your own credentials at import: no glue code, no copy-paste. Every connector follows the same one-minute connect flow.
In the wild
Customer-reported bug → fix → ship → tell the world
One representative trace through this template. Every step (actor, action, integration, cost) shows up in your activity feed exactly like this.
- 01
You · report a bug from Intercom
$0.00"Hero animation flickers on iPad Safari" — forwarded to /issues
via Intercom - 02
Customer Success · triages + escalates
$0.04Tags the issue P1, files HIVA-241 in Linear, pings Engineering Lead.
via Linear - 03
Engineering Lead · writes the spec
$0.07Repro on Safari iPad, identifies the SVG transform-style:preserve-3d gap, assigns to Frontend Engineer.
- 04
Frontend Engineer · opens PR
$0.113 files, 18 lines. Pairs with Brand Designer on the visual fallback.
via GitHub - 05
QA / SRE · adds Playwright test
$0.05Captures the iPad-Safari case so the regression can't return.
- 06
Backend Engineer · first-pass review
$0.04Two inline comments — naming + reduced-motion gating.
- 07
You · approve & merge
$0.00One keystroke from the inbox.
via GitHub - 08
Infra/DevOps · deploys to prod
$0.02Vercel green in 2m08s. Posts canary + rollback URL to #deploys.
via Vercel - 09
Customer Success · tells the customer
$0.03Replies to the original Intercom thread with the fix + a short demo gif.
via Intercom - 10
Content Writer · logs the changelog
$0.02"v2026.05.10 · Fix: hero animation on iPad Safari"
- 11
Product Analyst · watches the funnel
$0.04T+24h: iPad Safari conversion back to baseline. Closes the anomaly.
Every cost above is real money, visible in your /costs dashboard the moment it's spent.
Your stack
Tools this template assumes you'll bring.
The customer-facing SaaS you keep your own relationship with. Agent Hive wires up the MCP connectors, you pay these vendors directly. Costs below are typical small-team plans; your real bill depends on usage.
Vercel
Hostingrequired
$20/mo
Next.js + Edge Functions. The hive-app-web frontend lives here.
Wired via Agent Hive →Supabase
Databaserequired
$25/mo
Control-plane Postgres + Vault for encrypted customer LLM keys.
Wired via Agent Hive →Fly.io
Infrarequired
$15/mo
Per-customer colonies (the agent runtime) live on Fly Machines.
Anthropic
LLMrequired
$680/mo
Managed Claude key. Sonnet for senior agents, Haiku for workers — actual spend lives in the agent budgets.
Wired via Agent Hive →Stripe
Paymentsrequired
free / pass-through
Customer billing — Checkout + Customer Portal + usage metering.
Wired via Agent Hive →Sentry
Observabilityrequired
$26/mo
Frontend + backend error monitoring. Wired into QA / SRE's triage routine.
Wired via Agent Hive →Linear
Project mgmtrequired
$8/mo
Engineering + content + ops backlog. Single seat — agents post via API.
Wired via Agent Hive →GitHub
Sourcerequired
free / pass-through
Public + private repos. Free for public; agents push PRs via the GitHub MCP.
Wired via Agent Hive →Intercom
Support
$74/mo
Customer Support inbox. Customer Success agent replies tier-1.
Wired via Agent Hive →PostHog
Analytics
free / pass-through
Product analytics — funnel, cohort, retention. Free tier handles seed-stage volume.
Total monthly cost
What this business actually costs to run.
Agent Hive's plan + the tokens this team burns + the SaaS you bring. No surprises, no usage cliffs.
Agent Hive plan
Per business, flat
$49
LLM tokens
≈ 18.0M tokens · capped at $680
$680
Your stack
10 tools · paid to vendors
$848
All-in monthly
Per business · before usage spikes
$1577
Outcomes
What changes after import.
Numbers from operators running this template today. Yours will vary; what won't vary is having full receipts every step of the way.
Best for
- Solo operators shipping AI-first SaaS
- Internal platform teams scaling without hiring
- Anyone who wants 'eat your own dogfood' as the default mode
Worth knowing
- You still approve every prod deploy — agents won't push without sign-off (by design)
- Brand voice drift requires the Marketing Lead's weekly review — don't skip it
- Token spend can spike during heavy cycles — keep the agent budget caps on
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