The Aquarius blog
What we’re building, why, and what we’re learning from the people running businesses on it.
AI Employees Still Need a Manager
AI employees can sort your inbox and post online. Here's how four levels of trust keep you in charge, and how to build custom agents with no code.
Zachary SheldonResearch
Can you trust AI agents with your work?
AI agents need delegation and supervision. Here's how we built a system that finds its own mistakes and keeps them from happening twice.
Zachary SheldonResearch
Can AI agents help my small business?
AI agents are everywhere this month, from Meta's Muse to OpenAI's dots. Here's what an AI agent actually is, which ones a small business can use today, and which hype to skip.
Zachary SheldonResearch
Which AI Model is Best for Your Small Business?
Sol or Astra? Haiku or Sonnet? Learn how to match the right AI model to each job, and how Aqua manages delegation so the right model just runs.
Zachary SheldonResearch
How to use AI on the platforms your business already has
Your business is split across Shopify, email, your calendar, your Drive. The cost is the space between them. Connectors are how Aqua closes that gap, one door at a time, always with your permission
Zachary SheldonResearch
How I hand AI work with a finish line
Complex small-business projects usually need you to hold all the pieces. Aqua can keep working while you're away. Here's how Projects work, told through one of my own.
Peeyush KumarFounder
How to stop re-explaining your business to AI
Most AI tools make you re-explain your business every time. Aqua doesn't. It builds a Playbook: a living map of your voice, your process, and your team, so it works like a partner who already knows you.
Zachary SheldonResearch
Run your business in the language you think in
Aquarius now works in 33 languages, end to end — talking to Aqua, every screen, and this blog. Not the menus translated and the work left in English. The whole thing, in the language you actually think in.
Andrew BeveridgeEngineering
How to run your business by talking to it
Most people click around Aquarius for five or ten minutes before they discover they could have just asked for what they wanted. Here is what asking gets you, in the words two customers used.
Zachary SheldonResearch
Introducing Aqua
An AI business partner for people who run small businesses — it reads what you're drowning in, does the legwork, and hands you finished work to approve.
Peeyush KumarFounder
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