Most companies talk about automation.
We run on it.
Holixora operates four production products — Archily.pro, Mercora POS, Hanoman HMS, and the Holixora core platform — with a single AI Chief of Staff and no operations team.
This is the actual stack.
The Core: OpenClaw + Claude
The backbone is OpenClaw, an AI agent runtime on WSL2. Michelle — our AI Chief of Staff — runs on Claude Sonnet. Persistent. Always-on. 30-minute heartbeat loop.
She manages product operations, content, outreach, monitoring, and incident response. Simultaneously.
The key design principle: push-based, not poll-based. Work is triggered by events and schedules, not by a human deciding what to do next.
Automation Layer
Scheduled jobs handle recurring work: blog posts, social content, user nurture emails, payment monitoring, system health checks.
Event-driven triggers handle real-time work: new signups, payment webhooks, form submissions, errors. Each event routes to the appropriate handler automatically.
Background workers process compute-heavy tasks: AI RAB generation in Archily.pro, PDF processing, report generation. Decoupled from the request cycle so the user experience stays fast.
The Data Layer
PostgreSQL for primary data. Redis for session state, rate limiting, and temporary flags.
No complex data warehouse. No Kafka. No microservices sprawl.
Simple by design. Simple systems fail less, debug faster, and cost less to run.
Communications
WhatsApp (via WAHA) for real-time agent-to-human reporting. Not email, not Slack — because that is where the operator actually reads messages.
Hive for internal task management and team coordination.
Postiz for scheduled social publishing across platforms.
Product Infrastructure
Each product runs as an isolated pm2 process on a single VPS. Next.js frontend. FastAPI backend. Shared database server.
Costs less than what most companies spend on a single junior developer's workstation.
What This Means
The economics are different when automation is the foundation, not the addition.
One operator. Four products. Real revenue.
That is the model we are building — and the model we build for clients.