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FOUNDED 2026 · ACWORTH, GA · AUTONOMOUS BUSINESS SYSTEMS

We build the infrastructure layer for autonomous business operation.

@therealmacsteel

LOCATION
Acworth, Georgia 30101
Atlanta Metro · Cherokee County

The SaaS billwas $847/month.

SteelWorks Intelligence was founded in 2026 by Mac Steel in Acworth, GA. Mission: make autonomous business operation accessible to every entrepreneur and enterprise — powered by open source AI infrastructure.

Mac Steel — Founder & Architect. Serial entrepreneur from Acworth, GA. He founded SteelWorks Intelligence after paying $847/month for SaaS tools that didn't talk to each other: Clay for lead enrichment, Zapier for automation, Apollo for prospecting, Manus for AI workflows. None of them knew the others existed. None of them got smarter.

In 2025, Mac stopped paying and started building. The question wasn't "which tool should I use?" It was: can I build a system that replaces all of them — and actually improves itself?

The answer is SteelWorks Intelligence — powered by open source AI infrastructure. Twenty-two AI agents. Fifty-four scheduled operations. Five AI intelligence bridges. Running 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Monthly cost: $0.

Not a demo. Not a proof of concept. This is the production system running SteelWorks Intelligence right now.

The Breakthrough

The innovation that made $0/month possible — and why no cloud-dependent competitor can copy it.

THE FRUSTRATION
Every AI platform charges per query. OpenAI: pay per token. Anthropic: pay per token. Google: pay per token. I needed a system running hundreds of AI queries per day. At API rates, that's $200-500/month in LLM costs alone — before a single SaaS tool.

THE INSIGHT
A local PC can run large Ollama models, while ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, Grok, and Perplexity all have useful free web interfaces. What if the system could pick the right free lane for each task without ever defaulting to a paid API?

THE BUILD
I built a routing layer that sits between the agent system, PC-local Ollama models, n8n, and free browser sessions. Agents send tasks to the router; the router selects the appropriate free lane, captures the response, and closes browser work when complete.

THE MOAT
A cloud-dependent competitor has a harder time copying this structure. If Manus or Zapier route through free browser tiers, they pressure their own revenue model. The $0 cost structure is not a feature — it is a structural advantage when workflows are local, scoped, and logged.

System State: Live

Real numbers. Running right now on a MacBook Pro in Acworth, GA.

22 Active Agents
162 Skills
54 Cron Jobs
5 AI Bridges
0 Monthly Cost ($)

Why Self-Hosted

This is not a philosophical preference. It's the only architecture that achieves autonomous operation at zero cost.

Data Sovereignty

Every query, every lead, every piece of proprietary intelligence stays on your infrastructure. When you run an AI query through a cloud service, that data leaves. Self-hosted means your business intelligence never touches someone else's server.

Zero Marginal Cost

Cloud AI bills scale with usage. Local models and disciplined free-tier routing keep marginal cost at zero while preserving escalation paths for tasks that need web context or a different reasoning style.

Full Customization

No API rate limits. No usage caps. No platform policy changes that break your workflows overnight. You own the code, the agents, the skills, the memory. You can add a new agent in 20 minutes. No waiting for a vendor's roadmap.

Self-Improvement

Cloud tools don't learn your business. They're static products. SteelWorks Intelligence's Evolution Loop (L2) allows agents to identify gaps in their own skill sets and write new skills. The system gets better at running your business the longer it runs.

"Question perception as perception often isn't reality."

— Mac Steel, Founder, SteelWorks Intelligence

The 5-Level Roadmap

Recursive Self-Improvement — from autonomous operation to self-funded autonomous empire. This is where it ends.

Autonomous Operation — 26 Agents Running 24/7
✓ COMPLETE
Full agent hierarchy, free-first routing, 171 scheduled operations, self-healing, memory system, content pipeline, lead intelligence, real estate intelligence, social automation, and agent-routed Telegram reporting — all running continuously without human intervention.

Agents Write Their Own Skills — Self-Improvement Loop
→ BUILDING NOW
Evolution Loop architecture is live. Agents identify capability gaps, propose new skills, and write code to implement them. Self-pruning removes underperforming skills. P&L tracking begins — the system knows what's working.

Autonomous Income Generation
NEXT
Agents generate revenue without human selling. Gumroad digital products, Amazon Associates, email list monetization, affiliate commissions — all managed autonomously. The system earns money while Mac sleeps.

Recursive Loop — Revenue Funds Expansion
FUTURE
L3 revenue is reinvested autonomously into compute, capabilities, and infrastructure. The system allocates its own capital toward growth. Human role shifts from operator to architect.

Self-Funded via Alpaca / S&P — Complete Autonomy
THE VISION
SteelWorks Intelligence trades S&P/Nasdaq via Alpaca. Passive investing income self-funds the entire operation indefinitely. Zero daily human input required. The first genuinely autonomous business — not managed by AI, but run by AI.

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Built in Acworth, GA

Not in San Francisco. Not in a VC-backed office. In Cherokee County, on a MacBook.

SteelWorks Intelligence is built and operated from Acworth, Georgia — a city in Cherokee County in the Atlanta metro area. This matters because the story of SteelWorks Intelligence is not a Silicon Valley story. It's an entrepreneur story.

The same system that runs Fortune 500-level business intelligence is running on consumer hardware in a suburb north of Atlanta. If it can work here, it can work for any serious entrepreneur anywhere — without moving to a tech hub, without VC funding, without a team of engineers.

Mac works with entrepreneurs and enterprises in the Atlanta metro area, Cherokee County, Cobb County, and remotely nationwide. If you're a founder or business in the greater Atlanta area looking for AI automation implementation — get in touch.

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ENHANCE EVERYTHING

Every system can be improved. Every process can be automated. Every barrier can be engineered around. The question is never "can it be done?" — it's "how fast can we build it?"

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