The estate that runs my own business
I rebuilt my own operation before advising anyone else, and this is what runs it today. Every figure below was counted against the live repo and databases, not estimated, and every one links to its method on the claims page. This page is the honest answer to a fair question, which is whether I actually live the way I'm proposing you should. Have a look.
The pieces, counted
The knowledge base
7,801 recordings and 5,031 transcripts, indexed into 241,371 searchable chunks and 4,867,242 timestamped segments. Ask a question in plain English, get the moment it was answered. It surfaced 8 customer pain points that years of reading the same material by hand had missed.
The AI router
22 distinct AI jobs run through one door. 14 of them are pinned to local models, zero API cost, and private data never leaves the machine. Each role names its model in one config line. Change the line, change the model. The bill and the privacy line both trace back to lines I chose.
The watchdog
Every system reports in daily. The morning digest carries 24 status lines and alerts on absence, not just failure, because the dangerous failure is the silent one. A post-run verifier checks 11 named failure types, repairs once, then stops and tells a human.
The schedule
21 distinct scheduled jobs make 83 runs a week, unattended. 24 databases are snapshotted nightly and integrity-checked (5.30 GB to 1.41 GB), with restores actually tested. A backup that's never been restored is a hope.
The front door
21 dashboards sit behind one front door, including a finance view that unifies 4 legal entities: 15,441 bank transactions categorised locally and 127 recurring costs tracked by the subscription audit. That audit is how the software bill got cut in the first place.