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One operator.
An operation built by orchestrating AI.

Ben Milch — senior product & program leader. The live control room for a one-person operation: 65 automated systems that don’t just analyze — they draft and act under my approval, on one $12/mo server.

DEGRADED
How to read this: each group below is a stage — capture → intelligence → execution → audit — the sports-cards business runs through the same stages. Every tile is a real system on its own schedule; green means it ran on time.
65
Systems
3,781
Audited actions
8
Domains
13d 5h
Uptime
$12
Infra / mo
0
Engineers
ESTATE RELIABILITY100.00% 24h · 97.52% 7d · 1 incidents (7d) · 200m MTTR · 127.0h green streak

↓ Capture 18

Multi-channel capture (mail, phone, marketplaces, registries)
Registry Data Sync
Syncs graded-card set + population data
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ShipStation Reader
Pulls the fulfillment queue
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Phone Router
Routes phone captures into the ops inbox
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Inbox Ingest
Ingests inbound items into the pipeline
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LinkedIn Drainer
Drains drafter queues into the canonical log
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LinkedIn Role Ingester2x daily
Parses LinkedIn job-alert emails into the job board's live role feed, in-lane only, deduped
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Calendar Synchourly
Pulls all my calendars (personal, family, business) into one hardened feed
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Expert Radardaily
Mines the AI/ops experts I follow; scores each new piece against what I build
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Photo Understandingevery 10m
Reads photos texted by buyers, IDs the cards, prices them, drafts the reply
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Card Price Syncdaily
Refreshes card prices on a rolling rotation
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Buy-Signal Scannerhourly
Scans eBay auctions for underpriced lots, comps them, nets fees, and cross-references 22k+ known contacts to flag deals you can source direct
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Auction Scannerhourly
Scores Sportlots + AuctionWorx auction-house lots against live eBay comps; surfaces ending-soon underpriced lots to the Deals board
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CreateAuction Scan12h
Pulls premium auction-house galleries (Memory Lane, Grey Flannel) via ScrapeOps residential proxy, parses lots, scores live ones vs eBay comps for the Deals tab
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Job-Status Scan3h
Reads the inbox for ATS emails (greenhouse/lever/ashby/workday) and auto-updates each application to applied / interview / rejected
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FB Alert Parserevery 30m
Parses Facebook Marketplace saved-search alert emails, comps each new listing against real grade-matched eBay solds, and feeds BUY-SIGNALs to the arb feed — ToS-clean: reads the emails Facebook sends, never touches Facebook itself
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Net54 Radarevery 30m (8-22h)
Comps pasted Net54 B/S/T threads: graded-only, VCP-primary with eBay cross-check, BUY/WATCH/PASS with full net math at the negotiated eBay fee, hands BUYs to the Demand Engine. Human-pasted, ToS-clean.
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Consignment Intakeevery 15m
Processes public sell.sportscardsforever.com submissions: reads any file format, comps graded cards, drafts a cash offer to Drive for approval.
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Inbox Sweepdaily
Nightly rules-based inbox hygiene: archives aged bulk, social, and transactional mail (label-reversible, deterministic rules, no LLM) so the personal inbox stays a pure needs-you queue — humans and deadlines never move
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◉ Intelligence 14

Every system here runs on LLMs — DeepSeek-first, with automatic failover to Claude + OpenRouter so no single vendor can stop it
Email Triage
Classifies inbox into a daily digest
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Morning Brief
Assembles the daily brief (DeepSeek)
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Weekend Brief
Weekend edition of the brief
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Brief 2nd Pass
Afternoon refresh of the brief
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Brief PDF Render
Renders the brief to PDF
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Daily Wrap
Auto-summary of the day's activity
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Weekly Digest
Scheduled weekly digest
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Board Inbound Feed15 min
Reads every inbound text + email (buyers and sellers), classifies each, drafts a reply, and feeds the Board with full conversation context
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Inventory Evaluatordaily
Evaluates whole-seller BIN inventories (known contacts + surfaced sellers), totals graded/vintage value, flags $3k+ stacks for bulk offline outreach
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Cross-Market Arb Feeddaily
Merges every channel scanner's buy-signals (eBay, auction houses, CreateAuction, Facebook alerts + assisted sweeps) into one deduped feed ranked by net edge — one place to see the best buy across all markets
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Demand Enginedaily
Scores each live find against deep buyer profiles (era, grade-tier, player, price band, PC/set-builder flags) — names WHO buys it and gates on net after the negotiated eBay fee + shipping + handling.
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Buyer Profilerweekly
Rebuilds deep buyer attribute profiles (eras, grade-tiers, players, price bands) from SalesEvents — the fuel the Demand Engine scores against.
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Monday Money Reportweekly Mon
Weekly P&L to Ben + David: sold / bought / best & worst call + engine activity, straight from the DB.
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Grading Arb Enginedaily
Nightly EV ranking of the raw unsold pile: comps at PSA 3/5/7 via the sourcing rail, vintage grade priors, PSA fee + sell costs subtracted vs selling raw — writes the Grading Arb Queue to Drive, scan-read overrides sharpen it
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⇆ Handoff Bus 2

Autonomous action, human-gated
🔑 APPEND-ONLY AUDIT LEDGER3781 actions logged
Handoff Watcher
Perception: scans for handoffs, classifies
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Handoff Executor
Action: runs SAFE items, dry-run fenced, audited
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▶ Execution 5

Closed-loop action — drafts become done, human-gated
🔑 APPEND-ONLY EXECUTION LEDGERawaiting your first approval
MTL Aging Escalationweekdays 2x + wknd
Surfaces stale backlog into the daily brief and lets me clear it by replying 'done'; batches admin to Fri/Sun so weekdays stay for building
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Queue Populatordaily
Fills the approve-and-send queue every morning
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Approve and Sendevery 20m
Human-gated: your tap turns a draft into a real, logged send
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Command Executorevery 15m
Acts on your brief commands autonomously (drafts/plans); escalates judgment
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Execution Watchdogevery 2h
Self-checks every rail; emails the moment one breaks
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⚡ Execution - Cards 13

Autonomous sourcing & outreach
Re-Engage Watcher
Drafts replies to buyers for review
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Seller Outreach
Drafts seller outreach
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Outreach Enrichment
Enriches outreach leads
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Origination Intel
Sourcing intelligence tool
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PSA Queue Builderdaily
Rebuilds the scraper queue from the leads ledger so every collector's set list stays fresh for on-demand valuation
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Payment Reconcileevery 20m
Matches incoming payments to deals, preps the order, notifies my partner
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Lead Evalevery 1m
Evaluates new leads in near-real-time
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Lead Synthesizeevery 15m
Synthesizes evaluated leads into drafts
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Lead Matchevery 5m
Matches leads against the target model
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Auto Evalevery 30m
Batch re-evaluation pass
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Origination Outreachdaily
Drafts buy-side seller outreach into the approve queue
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Reconcile Intelligencedaily
Reads the DB reconciliation mismatches (sold-orphans, mapping gaps) and prepares the exact fix per case — surfaced on the Board for approval, never auto-executed
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Repricer + Matcherdaily
Prices stuck profit-cards off real grade-matched eBay sold comps (confidence-gated), excludes consignment, flags prior-year loss cases, and attaches the reachable registry buyer to each firm floor — feeds the Board Reprice queue
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📣 Marketing 2

Content & video for the card business — FB & IG, drafted for approval, nothing auto-posts
Content Enginedaily
Daily FB+IG marketing queue: we-buy, proof, market, Cards-We-Lost-Money-On, Sunday video script. Promotes sell.sportscardsforever.com; nothing auto-posts.
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Video Editorevery 30m (8-20h)
You-record-we-edit pipeline: smart cuts, punch-ins, Montserrat captions, emoji title, SCF end-card. Drive Video Inbox -> Video Out.
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⚖ Internal Audit 11

Controls, DR & assurance — verified, not assumed
Freshness Sweep
Flags stale artifacts across the stack
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Brief Health Check
Verifies the brief actually shipped
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Pipeline Status
Twice-daily pipeline snapshot
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DR Backupdaily
Nightly versioned push of code/config to a private git repo (offsite, secret-free)
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Secrets Scandaily
Scans logs + code for leaked secrets/keys; clean = no exposure
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DR Restore Testweekly
Weekly: clones the backup fresh and verifies it restores cleanly
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Access Reviewdaily
Baselines SSH keys, ports & firewall; flags new access
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Doc Standardsdaily
Every tool documented; flags coverage gaps
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Audit Reportweekly
Weekly assurance report rolling up all controls, filed to Drive
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Provider Health6h
Pings every model provider; confirms failover coverage (no single-vendor risk)
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Estate Sentinel10 min
Whole-estate watchdog across BOTH boxes — disk headroom, services, geth+lighthouse sync, media-auth listener; emails Ben on any red (6h cooldown)
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Built & run by Ben Milch

I build and run production systems as a non-developer by orchestrating AI — 11+ years of Big-4 program delivery in regulated fintech (AML/KYC, OCC remediation, payments), now applied at machine speed. This operation runs my job search, a live sports-card e-commerce business, daily intelligence, and on-chain provenance R&D.

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