Building a 'company in a box' with AI agents handling accounting and CRM
“But, like, funny, the same weekend that this whole Claude bot thing exploded on x, I was actually sitting myself and playing around with a project, which I was just calling company in a box.”
a Monday replica or a, you name it, replica? That's not our core business. Why spend the internal resources on it? How do you justify that? I I think that's to some degree correct. But, like, funny, the same weekend that this whole Claude bot thing exploded on x, I was actually sitting myself and playing around with a project, which I was just calling company in a box. And the idea was just I was just I just wanted to test a little bit. And the idea was to do very similar to what Cloudbot did, but for a small company. And I just put, like, a small workspace in there was accounting. And in that, I put an open source accounting software. And then I put, like, CRM, and I put an open source CRM. And then I put a Cloud agent on top of that. And then I told my Claude agent, hey, can you bookkeep this invoice for me? Or, hey, can you set up this customer account for me on top of that software? Right? And it worked really, really nice. I just wanted to test the idea because the point is that and that's actually where it's also
About this clip
Sebastian describes his weekend experiment creating a 'company in a box' system that uses Claude AI agents to manage open source accounting and CRM software. He demonstrates how AI can automate basic business functions like bookkeeping invoices and setting up customer accounts, suggesting a future where companies rely less on traditional SaaS tools.
Why this clip
This clip provides a concrete example of how AI agents could replace traditional SaaS tools, supporting the episode's broader thesis about the death of SaaS.
What they said next
American VCs forced European startup to move to Silicon Valley - it was a disaster
50:38 - 54s · founder story
More from this episode
Similar clips from other shows
From the blog
Want clips like this for your podcast?
We find your top 5-8 clips, write the hooks, and deliver ready-to-post content. First 2 episodes are free.
Get 2 Episodes Clipped Free