LeedAB runs the back-office of an SMB the way a senior team would — sales, delivery, finance, HR, ops, comms. The thing worth talking about isn't the agents. It's the substrate underneath them: a per-customer Obsidian vault that every agent reads from and writes to, deployed locally, owned by the business.
Every agent — sales, delivery, finance — reads from and writes to one shared Obsidian vault per customer. Markdown files, real folders, the customer can open it, audit it, edit it. Agents share state by writing to the same brain, not by passing JSON around.
Side-effect: onboarding a new agent is a manifest line, not a deploy. Side-effect: the customer's data never leaves their machine in the basic posture.
"Their data, locally" isn't a checkbox we ticked — it's the pitch. SMBs don't trust cloud agents with the books, the contracts, and the customer list. Local-first removes that objection entirely. No vendor breach can leak what was never sent over the wire.
Roadmap is a Mac Mini + UGREEN AI NAS appliance — agents on the desk, not on someone else's GPU. Awkward for cloud-native incumbents to ship; native for us.
SMB sales is a different sport than enterprise. The motion: a prospect-builder demo that provisions a working "potential" brain on the prospect's data, hand them a live link, and let the product close itself. Manifest gets flipped from "potential" to "paid" on contract.
The economics only work because everything below the motion — the vault substrate, the manifest model, the agent roster — is shared infra across customers.
Execution drift isn't only a supply-chain problem. It's an operations problem with different surface area at different scales.
Rome's thesis — that plans hold but execution drifts and no one sees it in time — generalises down-market. The 50-person SMB has the same problem in their AR aging, their delivery handoffs, their CRM hygiene. They just can't justify a six-figure platform to fix it.
The thing that makes local-first per-customer brains interesting in this conversation isn't that LeedAB is better — it's that we live in a deployment posture your motion currently can't reach, and your motion lives in a tier ours currently can't sustain. Whether that's a referral lane, a tech integration, or a joint mid-market shape is exactly what's worth a real conversation.
Live customers, internal operations dashboard, daily standups, a private monorepo on GitHub.
30 canonical agents in a main folder; per-license-key manifests selecting subset; one bot per customer routes to the right sub-agent.
Mac Mini + UGREEN AI NAS as the per-business substrate. Agents on the customer's desk, not on someone else's stack.