I run an 8-person startup that uses AI agents. We don't let our agents run on vibes — here's the playbook system we created
Founder Rachel Woods explains how her 8-person company uses AI agents to automate work and avoid 4 new hires. Here's her playbook.
Rachel Woods, CEO and cofounder of AMP, an 8-person startup using AI agents, does not allow her agents to operate on "vibes." Instead, she has implemented a playbook system to replace the need for additional hires. Woods taught herself AI while studying business in college and later worked on AI research and development at Facebook.
After leaving Facebook in 2020, she founded an AI company and later AMP. She claims that using AI agents and playbooks has saved her company at least four new hires. Woods structures her AI playbooks by picking a repetitive task, writing down the start, input, and end, and then testing the AI's output against her own. She compares this approach to hiring a new employee.
One of the two types of AI costs in her business is the subscription to Claude and ChatGPT for every team member. The other cost is the background running of AI playbooks, which costs $8,510 in September. Woods emphasizes the importance of owning the playbook and renting the tech, meaning the choice of AI tool is less important than having well-designed playbooks.
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