Yoann Defay

Founder, OpenLabor · I build AI agents

Yoann Defay · Bali

I build AI employees.
And help operators ship theirs.

I build AI agents so you can scale your business without growing headcount.

Building
OpenLabor

The world's best minds, on your team.

Hire AI employees that run on your Company Brain — knowledge, skills, workflows. So your team operates like one 20× its size.

Currently Building OpenLabor (private beta) Advising 5 mid-market ops teams Writing weekly on AI implementation

Writing

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AUG 2026 How AI agents evolved: five rungs from a text box to a workforce Raw API, agent library, code harness, personal OS, team OS. Each rung turns the one below it into a component, and the gaps between them shrank from two years to nine months. AUG 2026 Your bottleneck isn't the model. It's the other 90%. Every company has a top 10% who run Claude Code, OpenClaw and Cowork like a team of engineers — and a 90% still typing questions into ChatGPT. That gap, not model quality, is what caps output. JUN 2026 The money meta: every online gold rush since 2010, and where AI agents really are on the curve Casino, affiliate, e-commerce, crypto, courses, AI. Every few years the online money meta rotates. Here's the pattern, the law underneath it, and why AI automation is the 2018-e-commerce moment, not the top. JUN 2026 Thin harness, fat skill: how to build AI agents your automation agency can actually sell Agno and AgentOS are the old way of building agents. OpenClaw is the new way. Here's the thin-harness, fat-skill approach we use at OpenLabor — and why it's the right base for an AI automation agency. MAY 2026 Token count is the new headcount We went from $200/month of AI subscriptions to $12,500/month of token spend in 3 months. Same speed in humans would be ~$125K/month payroll. Here's the math, the pattern, and why most companies will miss it. MAY 2026 Mac mini vs VPS for OpenClaw: which to buy in 2026 A real cost-and-performance comparison: when a Mac mini beats a VPS for OpenClaw, when the VPS wins, and the hybrid setup I run.

Work

25 projects in the last 10 years.

OpenLabor Fleets Remiku FightBets DoneDeal F1Stakes Outreachguy GhostX Assetswap MyFamilyOffice Earlyventures Bulls Fund Promote2Earn Metavault NFTIZ +10

Working with me: done-for-you AI employees, fixed fee. One AI employee from $1K. A full AI team from $5K. See packages and book a call →

About

Yoann Defay

Engineering at École Centrale in France. Dropped out at 22, started my first company, moved to Asia. Based in Bali. 10 years building — affiliate, media-buy, SaaS, fintech, Web3, AI infra. Three years ago I started automating my own businesses with AI. Then AI started running them. Now I help others do the same. Read full bio →