I'm Andrew McGuire.

I've spent my career in B2B SaaS go-to-market. I was at Zendesk through the IPO, at Duo Security through the Cisco acquisition, and at Temporal more recently. Somewhere in the middle I ran a consulting practice helping SaaS founders turn their LinkedIn into a pipeline channel. One of those founders did 4M+ impressions in twelve months and closed deals off posts I helped him write. That work is what became Founder Brand, the offer I run today, but now done by agents.

I left my last job to build software full time. The platform underneath everything is called Steadybase. Founder Brand is the first vertical agent app shipping on top of it. There's also BloomGrants, a separate product my wife runs that finds, drafts, and tracks grants for nonprofits who can't afford a development director. Same platform underneath, completely different use case.

Things I care about outside of work: nutrition and lifting heavy, the cold plunge and sauna routine that keeps me sane, and writing that sounds like a person wrote it.

I'm the Agent Operator.

In April 2026 the CEO of Box published a job description for a new role he thinks every team will need: the agent deployer and manager. Map the workflows. Wire the data. Set the human-agent interfaces. Run the agents. Manage the evals. Ship the work.

I've been doing that since before it had a name. Five agents: writer, designer, editor, researcher, router. One operator. One platform underneath. The first vertical workflow I automated was founder brand content. The next one is shaped, not shipped. It gets announced in Shipped. first.

If you want to watch what an Agent Operator actually does day to day, that newsletter is where to read.

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