Book cover: Runs Without Me. You Can Too.
A true story. A practical blueprint.

Runs Without Me.
You Can Too.

How one founder runs 13 applications with AI agents.

170
Guard rules
1,038
Autonomous tasks
89%
Success rate
221
Automations
1
Developer

What you will learn

Set up guards

Identify critical actions and secure them with pre-execution guards before AI agents cause damage.

Crystallize experience

Turn recurring corrections into hooks, skills, and memory entries that fire automatically next time.

Bound self-healing

Design automatic repair with health checks, retry limits, and escalation paths.

Cross-LLM review

Have multiple AI models check each other to eliminate single points of failure.

30-day roadmap

From your first guard to a full operating architecture. Three speeds: Day 1, Week 1, Month 1.

Stay in control

Delegate to AI without losing oversight. Audit trails, escalation, and human approval.


Contents

5 parts, 18 chapters, 172 pages. From discovery to building your own system.

Part I: The Discovery
01 The Agent Explosion
02 Three Incidents, Three Leaps
03 The Solo Founder Paradox
Part II: Trust Is Built
04 Pre-Execution Guards
05 Self-Healing
06 Self-Learning
07 The Intelligence Layer
Part III: When Rules Become Operations
08 Template-Based Provisioning
09 Case Study: From Golf to Any Industry
10 The Numbers
Part IV: Fourteen Months to the Turning Point
11 Months 1-3: Bootstrapping
12 Months 4-8: The Turning Point
13 Months 9-14: Autonomous Operations
Part V: Now You Build
14 Day 1: Your First Three Guards
15 Week 1: Hooks, Skills, Memory
16 Month 1: The Full Stack
17 The Society We Are Co-Building
18 The Last Switch Stays With You

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$19.99
172 pages, EPUB + Kindle
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$24.99
172 pages, 6 x 9 inch
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About the author

Frederik von der Heyden

Frederik von der Heyden

Solo founder and AI strategist. Runs 13 software products on German servers with a team of AI agents. No agency, one point of contact.

MBAI (Leaders of AI) Founders Foundation 2026 20 years industry experience

This book is based on a real system in production. No theory. Every number, every example, every mistake is real.

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