The overnight story
You know the list.
What happened that night
The night was 3 July 2026.
Several agents ran at once, one job each. We wrote down the plan first, including what counted as finished for every piece. Each piece had to pass its checks before it counted as done.
- The planWhat counted as finished, for every piece.
- Competitor researchA review of a competitor, with a plain verdict on each feature: copy it, adapt it or skip it.
- KeywordsThe questions people search, matched to pages that could answer them.
- Free toolsCalculators built around number logic that had already been tested.
- The blogA blog platform with the pages and metadata needed for search.
- The writing checkAn automatic check for writing habits we wanted to keep off the site.
The original log
What the log said that night.
“Final: 1,059 tests green, production build clean (89 static pages).”
The same log recorded “13 tools, 51 posts”. Those are the figures from the first night.
The later check
Checked again on 22 August 2026.
The same project had grown to the figures below, recorded at the August check.
- Changes
- 706
- Active days
- 27
- Changes in the first night
- 101
- Free tools
- 16
- Posts
- 68
- Automatic checks
- 1,400
- Test files
- 130
- Static pages
- 186
The recorded suite passed across its test files, and the production build completed. The writing check ran across the articles too. You can read the Making Tax Digital timeline on this site as an example of the writing.
Approach
Write down what finished means.
Give each agent a clear job. Let it build. Check the work before it counts. That was the approach behind the night.