Building an Agentic Company — Oxford
A completed talk at Santander Work Café, Oxford on Thursday 9 July 2026, 12:30–13:30.
About the talk
Tom Dean built an AI agent to run the day-to-day operations of Stackstone Consulting. This talk documents what happened over the first months in production — the architecture, real failures, and the permanent fixes that made the system more reliable over time.
What it covers
- The architecture: skills-based design, persistent memory, cron automation, retrieval systems
- Real failures: dropped tasks, timezone errors, misdirected documents — each one a permanent improvement
- Governance: TOTP approval gates, action logging, decision separated from execution
- Business value: no manual CRM updates in months, pipeline managed while away, under £50/month on a Raspberry Pi