{"slug":"ai-agent-ran-my-consulting","title":"I let an AI agent run my consulting practice for a week","summary":"Seven days. Sixty-two billable hours. Three failures. The bottleneck wasn't capability — it was authority.","lede":"For seven days in March 2026, I handed my consulting practice to a Claude-driven agent. The agent earned more than I did. It also introduced two failures I am still recovering from.","date":"2026-05-04","reading_time":"7 min","category":"Story","tags":["experiment","first-person","consulting","agent failure"],"image":"https://cdn.twc.sh/images/igcache/Agent%20Ran%20My%20Consulting/1500_900/blog.jpg","url":"/blog/ai-agent-ran-my-consulting.html","wordcount":920,"related":["100-things-agents-did","delegation-tokens-explained","kill-switch-design"],"schema":"Article"}