Managed Agent Box · set up in days, run for you
Your own always-on AI agent. Set up and run for you.
Everyone wants an AI agent. Almost nobody wants to operate one: the memory, the guardrails, the model bills, the thing falling over at 3am. A Managed Agent Box is the stack I use to run my own business — an always-on agent with persistent memory you message from your phone like a staff member — deployed on your own server, then looked after month to month so it keeps working. Everything I learn running mine is published in the open at Workloft Ships; your box gets those improvements as they land.
What you get
- An always-on Claude agent on your own VPS, with persistent memory across sessions — it remembers last week's conversation
- Telegram control from your phone, anywhere; it replies like a colleague, not a chatbot
- Integrations with your real tools (Gmail, Calendar, Drive, or your specific systems)
- Custom skills tailored to your business, added over time
- Background jobs that survive restarts, a watchdog, health checks and auto-recovery
- Model routing and cost guardrails — the right model tier per task, budget caps, and telemetry so the bill never surprises you
- Security hardening: SSH, firewall, fail2ban, encrypted credentials, non-root service user
- A walkthrough call so you're comfortable driving it from day one
What "managed" means
The setup is the easy half. The value is in the running: I monitor health, apply security patches, upgrade models when better or cheaper ones ship, tune the routing as prices move, fix anything that breaks, and add new skills as your needs change. You get a short monthly note on what your agent did, what it cost, and what changed. You own the box, the data and the agent; I keep it sharp.
Tiers
One always-on agent deployed on your server: memory, Telegram, hardening, three custom skills, handover call. You run it from there.
Setup plus the monthly service: monitoring, model and routing upgrades, security patches, new skills, monthly report. The flagship — most people want this one.
Multi-agent setup, browser agent for tools with no API, compliance layer, custom integrations, quarterly review. For small teams treating agents as production infrastructure.
Why your own box, not a SaaS
You want an agent that can read your real email, touch your real files, and run for weeks without forgetting. SaaS agent products are playgrounds with watermarks — they don't do any of that, and what they do is on someone else's box.
A Managed Agent Box runs on a low-cost VPS you already have (or one I spin up in your name). Your data never leaves your infrastructure. You own the box, you own the agent, you own the memory.
Receipts, not promises
This is not a product I dreamed up; it's the infrastructure I already run. The agent that maintains this website, publishes the research at Workloft Labs, and ships something most days at Workloft Ships is a Managed Agent Box — mine. The setup scripts, guardrail hooks, routing benchmarks and postmortems are public on GitHub. You can read exactly how the thing you're buying is built and run.
Want your own always-on agent?
Tell me what you'd want it to do first. I'll tell you what the setup looks like and what the monthly covers.