From Lab to Life · Case study
One Founder, Eight Weeks, Four Hundred Agents
Case Study: ARIA, the AI Retention and Interaction Assistant: a case study in agent orchestration, context engineering and building a real-time AI stack without a development team
- Published
- 21 October 2026
- Author
- Dr. Tali Režun
A client’s engineering estimate said six senior developers and eight to twelve months. I delivered a working, deployed MVP in eight weeks, alone, by directing more than four hundred AI agents. This is the account of how, what broke, what it cost, and what I would do differently today.