Roshan Shahukhal agents on shift

I clock out. My agents clock in.

I'm a software engineer, 12+ years in, with a day job. So I built AI agents to work the hours I can't. Every night they make, check and schedule videos for six channels, and I approve their work from my phone. Now I build the same night shift for small businesses.

this is a real night,
straight from the logs

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Tuesday night, October 13.

All of this happened. Times are Eastern, copied from my agents' job logs. Nothing staged, and the failure stays in.

an agent did it I did it it broke
  1. race agent

    Read the day's TikTok comments and picked who races tomorrow.

    A viewer asked for the USA, so the USA got a lane. Then a fresh random seed, so no race is ever the same twice.

  2. race agent

    Built the video, then checked every single frame.

    2,465 frames scanned so no text hides under TikTok's buttons. Sound levelled to platform loudness. Cover made. 82 seconds, start to finish.

    Cover for Last One In, Race 05: country balls racing inside a glowing ring
    Last One In, Race 05: the video it built
  3. me, after dinner

    Sent a map video back for another pass.

    "It is really difficult to understand the map visually. Add graphics, motion and what not to make things visually clearer."

    The note went straight to the map agent. No meeting.

  4. publisher agent

    Tried to schedule the race on TikTok. It failed.

    So it stopped, held back the other two platforms, and flagged it, instead of half-posting.

    TikTok · failedYouTube + Facebook · held
  5. publisher agent

    Second try worked. Scheduled on all three for 8 am.

    TikTok ✓YouTube ✓Facebook ✓
  6. map agent

    Rebuilt the map video from my note.

    Borders now draw themselves on. Every enclave gets counted with a ring. The camera steps out one country at a time. Then it re-checked everything and made new thumbnails.

    Cover for Fine Print Atlas: Countries inside countries, a map of Baarle
    Fine Print Atlas, Baarle: revision 3
  7. me, in bed

    Watched it. Tapped Approve.

  8. publisher agent

    Scheduled it on YouTube, Facebook and TikTok for Thursday.

    3 platforms ✓
  9. I slept. The tracker didn't. It checked every channel every 15 minutes, all night.
  10. me, with coffee

    Approved the next map video, about two islands a day apart.

  11. publisher agent

    Scheduled it for Friday on all three platforms.

    Cover for Fine Print Atlas: Tomorrow next door, the Diomede Islands
    Fine Print Atlas, Diomede
  12. the schedule

    Race 05 went live while I was getting ready for work.

  13. community agent

    Posted "comment your country for the next race" under it, then reloaded to make sure it stuck.

    At 8:40 it checked again. Still there. Tonight's race starts from those comments.

By 9, I'm at my desk. So is the work.

That whole night cost me a few minutes of tapping, mostly from bed. The agents did the reading, building, checking, scheduling and retrying.

The part I care about most: a person signs off before new work goes out. And when something breaks, they stop and say so instead of covering it up.

Honest bit: I don't have client case studies yet. What I have is this system, running every night, and 12 years of building software for a living.

My studio app on my phone, listing each channel and its follower count
the control room. it fits in a pocket.

What the night shift has made so far

Six channels. The agents write, render, check and schedule. I pick the ideas and approve. Tap one to watch.

Tottles video stillTottles The Impossible Hotel video stillThe Impossible Hotel Back To Finance Basics video stillBack To Finance Basics Last One In video stillLast One In Fine Print Atlas video stillFine Print Atlas Hooked On Keys video stillHooked On Keys

80videos on YouTube6channels1person, with a day job

Count as of October 2026. Tottles stars Maya and Zoe, who are AI-generated characters, not real children.

Now picture your business's night shift.

Your work isn't videos, but the pattern is the same: the repetitive steps happen while you're closed, and you approve what matters in the morning.

an example, not a client
  1. Shop closes. Agent pulls the day's sales and stock counts.
  2. Agent drafts tomorrow's reorder and flags the two items running low.
  3. Agent sorts the inbox into orders, questions and spam, and drafts replies to the questions.
  4. Agent sends reminders for tomorrow's appointments.
  5. You read one summary with your coffee and approve the replies and the reorder. Two minutes.

jobs an agent could take off your plate

  • Weekly reportsNumbers pulled, summarized and sent on schedule.
  • Inbox triageSorted, labelled, replies drafted for you to approve.
  • Lead follow-upsNobody goes cold after the first message.
  • SchedulingBookings, reminders and calendar admin.
  • Data entryCopying between forms, sheets and apps, done for you.
  • ContentDrafted, edited, captioned and queued, like my channels.

You approve what matters.Anything that reaches a customer or spends money waits for your yes.

Failures get reported, not hidden.Like 8:14 pm above: the agent stops and tells you.

Built on your real work.We test it on actual tasks from your week before you rely on it.

Tell me one task you do every week.

I'll reply with an honest take on whether it could run on a night shift, and what that would take. Free, and no call needed.

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