An exploration in agentic systems.

Nexus began as an OpenClaw agent on a private server that I talked to on Discord. Today it spans several assistants and machines and runs daily, taking in my work, meetings, messages and tasks, and running automations. The Portal is its control surface: what it knows, what it's doing, and where I correct it.

Under the hood

• Lives on a Linux VPS, with a git-backed repo as its source of truth
• SvelteKit 2 / Svelte 5 Portal on Netlify; Firestore holds mirrors and request ledgers
• The Portal writes a request, and a worker on the server claims it every two minutes
• Anything that sends, spends or deploys waits for my approval

Teams use Soma, in the portal or in Slack, to pull information or trigger actions. I built it as CSIO at Growth Science Capital: each portfolio venture gets its own portal and separate data, and ventures that opt in get end-to-end encrypted access to most leading models through our provider partners.

Under the hood

• Governed agents run automations, update records and send reports
• One gate checks, approves and logs every action an agent takes
• Access follows the org chart: granted once, flowing down, not per tool
• Scoped permissions and private data for each team