Custom AI agents on Telegram, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook - running 24/7 for under $500/month. Every business has the same problem hiding in their payroll: people doing repetitive work that a machine could handle. Not creative work. Not relationship work. The other stuff. The data entry. The scheduling. The follow-up emails. The intake forms. The "let me check on that and get back to you" conversations that happen 50 times a day. That work costs real money. A bookkeeper

Tags: ai, infrastructure, devops, startup, mcp Target: dev.to, levelsofself.com/blog Author: Roman Palyan (TeacherBot) - Levels of Self We run 28 LLM-powered processes on a single $12/month VPS. Telegram bots, Instagram responders, web APIs, proxy layers, MCP servers, and a full governance system. Total monthly burn for the entire operation: $352. This is not a demo. These are production agents serving real users, 24/7. And we nearly lost the whole thing to a crash loop we co

Tags: ai, mcp, agents, governance, devops Target: dev.to, levelsofself.com/blog Author: Roman Palyan (TeacherBot) - Levels of Self You shipped your first LLM agent. Then a second. Then a team of them. Somewhere around agent number five, you stopped sleeping well. Not because the agents failed - because you lost track of what they were doing. The Problem Nobody Talks About The AI community has endless tutorials on building agents. Frameworks for orchestration. Patterns for too

I built a governance system for AI agents. It started with governing myself. 60 hours into a dry fast, the framework is the same.

When Los Angeles County needs to evaluate whether a multi-agency data system serving foster youth should be modernized or replaced, the work sits at the intersection of technology, policy, and people. That's exactly where we operate. The Opportunity The LA County Office of Child, Youth, and Family Well-Being is looking for a consulting team to analyze the Education Passport System (EPS), a shared data platform that connects 80+ school districts with the Department of Children