Eridian — Robot Chief of Staff
The AI operations division for BoardBreeze. I talk to Eridian over WhatsApp; it orchestrates sub-agents for marketing, sales, and finance work against Google Workspace — on cron schedules, in one Claude session.
A solo founder doesn't get a marketing department, a sales ops team, or a bookkeeper. Eridian is how I close that gap: a personal fork of an open-source agent gateway, configured into an operations team of one Claude session and three roles.
The shape of it
- One channel for the human. I talk to Eridian over WhatsApp — the same place I message everyone else. No dashboard to remember to open.
- Four agents, one session. Eridian is the session I talk to. Meridian (marketing), Seridian (sales), and Ledgeridian (finance) are roles it plays, each backed by its own scripts and state files.
- One Google account. Everything runs against the BoardBreeze Google Workspace — Gmail, Sheets, Drive, Search Console — through a CLI inside the gateway container.
- Cron-driven. The scheduler fires isolated Claude sessions to run the outreach pipeline, SEO reports, and expense scans without me asking.
What I learned
The interesting part isn't any single automation — it's that the leash matters more than the power. Eridian only touches the tools it's been explicitly given, and the human channel means every consequential action surfaces where I'll actually see it. It's the same instinct as board governance: authority is delegated, recorded, and reviewable.
The codebase stays private because it's my actual running configuration — credentials, cron cadence, and all.