MT The Human OperatorCode · Dirt · Fellowship 100 miles · Dec 5
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MT · Founder of Agent Luci

Automate the work.
Embody the life.
Stay human together.

I build AI that does the busywork for small businesses. Then I go use the time it gives back: running 100 miles, hiking the PCT, and showing up for people in recovery.

  • AI does the drafts
  • A person says yes
  • Life happens outside
See what Luci does → Why I do this

Until the start of the Brazos Bend 100.

The idea

One belief, tested three ways.

Machines can do the jobs. Bodies carry the consequences. People keep each other alive. I work on all three.

Hands on a keyboard in a dark room lit by two monitors

01 · The Code

Agent Luci

AI staff for owner-run businesses. It chases quotes, invoices and missed calls overnight. Nothing goes out until you say yes.

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02 · The Dirt

100 miles on foot

You can't edit a hundred miles after the fact. I'm training in public, missed days included.

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An empty circle of chairs in a dim gym, lit by a shaft of light

03 · The Fellowship

Real rooms, real people

I'm in long-term recovery. AI can summarize your pain. It can't need you back.

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How Luci works

Agents draft.
You decide.

The strongest system isn't the one that acts the most. It's the one that knows when to stop and ask a person.

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  1. Step 1 · Overnight

    Luci does the busywork

    Follow-ups, invoice reminders and quote chasers get drafted while you sleep.

  2. Step 2 · Morning

    You approve a short list

    Approve, edit or reject. Anything Luci isn't sure about comes to you first.

  3. Step 3 · Always

    Everything is on the record

    Each job, each miss and each fix gets logged. I publish the lessons every week.

The crucible · Needville, Texas

Brazos Bend 100.

One hundred miles through Texas bottomland. No shortcuts, no edits, no AI.

Dec 52026 · starts 6:00 a.m. CST
32 hrsto finish before the cutoff
2028Western States lottery, if I finish under 32
Pick your own hard thing →

The fellowship

Some rooms can't be automated.

I'm in long-term recovery, shaped by 12-Step principles. What I learned there guides how I build: admit limits, be useful, keep showing up.

  • No meetings, names or anyone else's story. Ever.
  • No product pitch next to recovery writing.
  • No AI replying as me to personal messages.

Peer fellowship can complement professional care. It doesn't replace it. Nothing here speaks for, or is affiliated with or endorsed by, any fellowship.

What recovery taught the builder

The hype says one thing.
I build the opposite.

  • Mastery

    Surrender

    I publish what the system can't safely do.

  • Scale

    Intimacy

    How well did it help? Not just how many it reached.

  • Self-optimization

    Service

    Time saved is for being useful to someone.

  • Act alone

    Ask first

    Anything that matters waits for a human yes.

Who

I'm MT.

MT (Cong Michael) is the founder of Agent Luci in Katy, Texas. He is training for a 100-mile trail race and a future Pacific Crest Trail expedition, and writes about work, recovery and the parts of life that can't be automated.

See the 2027 PCT plan →
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Next: the Pacific Crest Trail, with Luci running the agency.