Growth & Analytics / Austin, TX

Building AI agents that run real e-commerce operations.

I own the growth number and build the systems that move it. Partner at ZenSupply, with twenty years before that from data engineering into growth. Lately I hand real work to agents, and write about what holds up and what breaks.

Russell Lobban
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What I'm building

Agents, data, and the tooling underneath
Operating system

A second brain that runs my day

It reconstructs my day from Basecamp, email, Slack, meeting summaries and the code I shipped, pulls the numbers from the warehouse, and hands me back the signal. It built this site.

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Agents

An agent with the checkbook

An AI agent makes and executes the day-to-day ad decisions on a live Amazon account of mine: real budget, real bids, on its own. It escalates only the calls it shouldn't make alone.

Data

The platform under the number

The warehouse, the pipelines, and the reporting a whole team runs on. Every decision traces back to it.

Build vs buy

Tools I build instead of rent

Replacing bought software with engines built in-house, and wiring AI into how products actually grow.

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Writing

All writing →

Long-form on putting AI agents to real operational work. The systems, the guardrails, and what holds up versus what breaks.

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