WTF is a collective intelligence?

The next evolution of the Autonomous Business OS just went live - but it’s not what you think.

Author

Amos Bar Joseph
April 21, 2025

The Autonomous Business OS posts I share on LI reach 1.5M builders monthly. Each time I post, thousands of operators flood my DMs with one burning question: 'How do you build a company that scales without adding headcount?'

Today, we're releasing something bigger than an answer.

For 9 weeks, we've been building in public - sharing exactly how we run this new OS with just 3 founders and 20+ AI agents:

  • AI agent swarm that powers a $1M+ monthly pipeline

  • Self-learning support system that resolves 70%+ queries autonomously

  • CS agent that went rogue during an upsell discussion

With each post, the message became clear: operators don't just want examples. They want an intelligent system that can help them take action.

And so this week, we launched the foundation of something we've been dreaming about since the first Swan agent shipped:

A living, evolving Autonomous Business GPT:

Trained by builders.

Powered by agents.

Built for anyone ready to leave the Manual OS behind.

We're calling it exactly what it is: the collective intelligence for operators building smarter, not bigger.

WTF is it?

Every week, founders message us asking:

  • 'How do I design my own OS?'

  • 'What agent stack should I start with?'

  • 'Where do I begin if I want to scale without adding headcount?'

So instead of sending Notion docs or screenshots from Slack, we decided to go one level deeper: Building an AI that can guide you through our entire playbook - from first principles to final execution.

Everything we've built so far is inside that GPT:

  • The core playbooks: How we run GTM, CS, and Engineering with AI agents

  • The frameworks: MVI (Minimum Viable Intelligence), Trust-Impact Matrix, Self-Serve GTM

  • The metrics: ARR/Employee (the swan metric)

  • The real examples: Our actual agent taskforce setups, decision flows, and results

And unlike static content, this knowledge base gets smarter every week - and can personalize itself to your use case.

How YOU Can Shape It

This isn't just a content drop. It's the foundation of a crowdsourced operating system for a new era of company-building.

That’s why we call it the collective intelligence of autonomous businesses.

Want to shape what's next?

  • Contribute your own prompts and frameworks

  • Share your autonomous agent setups

  • Add your brain to the collective OS

Every valid contribution makes the GPT smarter. And every contributor becomes part of the founding layer.

Reply with 'GPT' for early access!!

FRAMEWORK OF THE WEEK
Agentic Swarm for pipeline generation

(I posted about this Swarm on LI this week, if you read it already, you can just skip directly to the behind the scenes. This is EXCLUSIVE, no one seen it yet, and it includes actual screenshots of the ai agents in action)

Every month I generate $1.5M+ pipeline - alone, zero SDRs, zero marketing budget. For me, AI agents aren't digital labor; they're leverage. Here's how I use them to become a 100x seller.

Most GTM leaders see AI agents as cheap replacements for junior salespeople - digital labor to handle repetitive tasks. That mindset isn’t just outdated; it positions you to lose the AI revolution entirely.

When the playing field is leveled by AI, your only edge becomes your talent stack: your creativity, strategic vision, and deep understanding of your buyers.

That’s exactly what we’ve built at Swan AI: not a team of digital workers, but an operating system that turns every founder into a 100x version of themselves.

I’m the only one doing GTM. But with AI agents behind me, I move like a 20-person growth team - testing, shipping, and closing faster than most gtm orgs.

My secret? I don’t manage a GTM team. I manage an intelligence network.

The Swarm

Each AI agent in my stack plays a unique role - and together, they compound my impact:

-> Shakespeare helps me turn raw thoughts into viral LI posts—generating 1M+ impressions a month.

-> The Observer listens for intent across 10K+ LI reactions and flags warm leads I’d never notice.

-> The Connector reviews 3K monthly connection requests and opens DMs with the right ones.

-> The Hunter analyzes 5K+ monthly website visitors who didn’t convert, qualifies them, and helps me engage the hottest ones personally.

-> The Gatekeeper enriches and filters 1.5K monthly inbounds and routes them to trial, demo, or waitlist.

-> The Prep Agent builds CRM-ready research briefs for 70 demos/week.

-> The Listener creates tasks, logs call summaries based on our sales framework, and drafts follow-up emails - so I can move straight to the next deal.

It’s not automation. It’s orchestration.

Each agent feeds the next. And together - they turn one founder into a GTM powerhouse.

The next generation of businesses won’t be run by big teams. They’ll be run by bold operators who know how to wield AI as leverage—not labor.

P.S. (because if you got here, you’re special)

BONUS: Manny Medina (founder of Outreach.io), Elias Torres (founder of Drift.com), and I are starting a private group for repeat founders building small, high ARR/FTE companies. If you (or someone you know) are building lean and scaling through AI-native systems - we want you in the room.

📩 Reply 'Autonomous' to apply to joining the founding crew.