About me

My life is run
by agents.

Not "AI-assisted." Fully agentic. 100+ Claude Code and Cowork agents run my brands, my brick-and-mortar, and this site — and I build the same systems for founders.

Alejandro Rioja
100+
Agents in production
$200M+
Revenue influenced
11
Brands built & operated
1M+/mo
Visitors for my clients
The stack · Receipts

I build an AI agent a day to improve some part of my personal or work life.

Most started as a 20-minute itch — "why am I still doing this by hand?" — and turned into a system that just runs. Here are some of the ones working right now.

01 · Running the businesses
📣
Campaign
Marketing Manager

Understands my brand voice and crafts copy across blog posts, newsletters, and social media. A/B tests subject lines, buttons, and callouts to directly influence revenue. Connects to GA4 and Google Search Console to surface what's actually driving results.

Runs campaigns end-to-end while I sleep
💼
Scout
Sales Manager

Scouts the web for leads using Apollo, Smartlead, and similar tools. For inbound leads, it moves them across the funnel from initial interest to purchase — writing follow-ups, tracking touchpoints, and never letting a warm lead go cold.

Surfaces and closes pipeline 24/7
Echo
Reputation Manager

Every review — 5-star or 1-star — gets a thoughtful, on-brand reply within hours. Monitors mentions across platforms, escalates real issues before they compound, and keeps our public-facing presence consistent without me having to babysit it.

Zero unanswered reviews or comments
🎟️
Hype
Events Promoter

Spots open court time, finds the right audience segment, writes the promotional copy, picks the best channel, and schedules the blast. It's filled slots I would have left empty just by running too busy to notice them.

Fills empty court time autonomously
📊
Ledger
Business Analyst

Reads the P&L, flags what changed week-over-week, and explains the why in plain English. Lands in my inbox every Monday at 7am. It's replaced the mental overhead of keeping the numbers in my head at all times.

Weekly business brief, no accountant needed
02 · Running my life
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Brief
Chief of Staff

Every morning: the overnight emails worth reading, what's on the calendar, and the one thing that actually matters today. Sets the context for the day in two minutes so I start focused instead of reactive.

First thing I read every day
📈
Warren
Financial Agent

Connected to my accounts to drive insights on spending patterns, recurring expenses, and where money is quietly leaking. Also tracks my stock portfolio and flags what to do to maximize growth before small moves become big problems.

Always knows where the money is going
🧠
Maven
Research Analyst

Twice a week: the new AI agent techniques worth stealing, distilled into what actually matters for my stack. Filters out the hype, surfaces the approaches worth testing, and keeps my toolkit moving faster than the market.

Keeps my toolkit 6 months ahead of the market
Keeper
Personal Assistant

Knows all my preferences — restaurants I like, how I travel, what I reorder, who needs a follow-up. Coordinates across the other agents when tasks overlap and handles the logistics I'd otherwise carry in my head.

The admin layer I never had to hire
03 · Running this site
✍️
Reed
Editor-in-Chief

Writes the brief, drafts the post, translates it into 13 languages, renders the OG card, and queues it for publish. Manages the entire content pipeline for this site — including the 5,049+ posts already live.

5,049+ posts across 13 locales
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Forge
Site Reliability

Handles every deploy: generates OG cards, compresses assets, and runs the build pipeline without me touching a terminal. The page you're reading went live through Forge — I just approved the PR.

Zero-ops deploys, always shipping
Alejandro Rioja
Who you're hiring

UCLA '17. Founder + AI agent builder. Austin operator.

I built and ran 11 brands from Austin — and today I operate Pickleland alongside the AI agent work. Every brand I built used agent systems I designed internally; now I'm taking on a small number of external engagements.

Cited in Forbes, Inc., HuffPost, BBC, Mashable. Wrote the 247-issue SEO + growth newsletter that runs alongside the agent work.

Case files

Things I'm proud of.

$30M → $330M
Samsara SEO pipeline
5 yrs · NYSE · 44x ROI
1M+/mo
Organic visitors
$17M+ revenue · 8 yrs
$110k/mo
Flux Chargers DTC peak
250K/mo visits · $0 ad spend · 75+ countries
$17M+
Real revenue for my clients
driven by my marketing strategies
850+
Pickleland 5-star reviews
#1 rated in Texas
500K/mo
Pickleland social views
20K local customers served
Find me · DMs open

The internet, but you can talk to me on it.

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your business too?

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