I’m Zachary
Boland. I work
at the center
of AI — hands
dirty, daily.

Founder. Builder. Writer. I founded Zachs AI, got acqui-hired, and now ship agents in production every week. Along the way I’m forming opinions and writing them down — so you don’t have to learn everything the hard way.

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I’m Zachary
Boland. I work
at the center
of AI — hands
dirty, daily.

Founder. Builder. Writer.
I founded Zachs AI, got acqui-hired, and now ship agents in production every week. Along the way I’m forming opinions and writing them down — so you don’t have to learn everything the hard way.

Read the writing Follow on LinkedIn

Founded
Zachs AI.
Solo,
trilingual,
Montreal.

Acqui-hired.
Now shipping
agents in
production,
weekly.

Gumloop.
Claude.
Codex.
Daily drivers,
not logos.

Quebec →
Madrid → SF.
EN / FR / ES.
Still getting
hands dirty.

Founded
Zachs AI.
Solo, trilingual,
Montreal.

Acqui-hired.
Now shipping
agents in
production, weekly.

Gumloop.
Claude. Codex.
Daily drivers,
not logos.

Quebec →
Madrid → SF.
EN / FR / ES.
Still getting
hands dirty.

BUILDING IN PUBLIC OPINIONS FROM PRODUCTION HOW-TO’S EN · FR · ES BUILDING IN PUBLIC OPINIONS FROM PRODUCTION HOW-TO’S EN · FR · ES BUILDING IN PUBLIC OPINIONS FROM PRODUCTION HOW-TO’S EN · FR · ES BUILDING IN PUBLIC OPINIONS FROM PRODUCTION HOW-TO’S EN · FR · ES BUILDING IN PUBLIC OPINIONS FROM PRODUCTION HOW-TO’S EN · FR · ES BUILDING IN PUBLIC OPINIONS FROM PRODUCTION HOW-TO’S EN · FR · ES BUILDING IN PUBLIC OPINIONS FROM PRODUCTION HOW-TO’S EN · FR · ES BUILDING IN PUBLIC OPINIONS FROM PRODUCTION HOW-TO’S EN · FR · ES BUILDING IN PUBLIC OPINIONS FROM PRODUCTION HOW-TO’S EN · FR · ES BUILDING IN PUBLIC OPINIONS FROM PRODUCTION HOW-TO’S EN · FR · ES

Writing

opinions, how-to’s, field notes

I’m in the room where AI actually gets deployed. These are the notes — what works, what breaks, and what I’d bet on next.

How-to PDF to ERP: the purchase-order agent, step by step The full anatomy of the agent that killed 37.5 hours of weekly data entry — triggers, validation, human review. coming soon Opinion Most “AI strategy” is procrastination You learn more from one agent in production than ten slide decks about readiness. Ship the small thing first. coming soon Field notes A week as a solutions engineer What it actually looks like to sit inside someone else’s ops and automate it — the wins and the misses. coming soon

What I’m deep in

Not a tools list — a practice. I use these daily, in production, for real clients.

Gumloop Agent workflows for enterprise ops. I deploy these for a living — discovery to production, with the analytics to prove ROI.
Claude Claude and Claude Code are my daily build tools — agents, automations, and the writing you’re reading about. I know where they shine and where they lie.
Codex I run the other lab’s tools too. Strong opinions require comparison shopping — I test everything against real work, not benchmarks.

Selected work

One I can talk about in detail. A distributor was hand-keying purchase orders into a legacy ERP. I built the agent that does it now.

Before 37.5 hours

per week manually entering and confirming purchase orders

After 5–10 minutes

of automated processing + 30 minutes of human review

ROI $6K monthly

+/- in recaptured productivity, every month

Accuracy 97–99% confidence

ensuring reliable automated outcomes

Before 37.5 hours

per week manually entering and confirming purchase orders

After 5–10 minutes

of automated processing + 30 minutes of human review

ROI $6K monthly

+/- in recaptured productivity, every month

Accuracy 97–99% confidence

ensuring reliable automated outcomes

Day job: Gumloop

I’m a Solutions Engineer at Gumloop, deploying agents with enterprise teams. If your company wants to automate at scale, that’s the right door.

Visit Gumloop

Day job: Gumloop

I’m a Solutions Engineer at Gumloop, deploying agents with enterprise teams. If your company wants to automate at scale, that’s the right door.

Visit Gumloop

The story so far

Founder to forward deployed — and still building.

Jun 2025
1

Founded Zachs AI — solo trilingual consultancy, Montreal

Mar 2026
2

Acqui-hired by Gumloop after months of building in their Slack

Apr 2026
3

Relocated to San Francisco to join the team in person

Today
4

Shipping agents in production — and writing down what I learn

The story so far

Founder to forward deployed — and still building.

1
Jun 2025

Founded Zachs AI — solo trilingual consultancy, Montreal

2
Mar 2026

Acqui-hired by Gumloop after months of building in their Slack

3
Apr 2026

Relocated to San Francisco to join the team in person

4
Today

Shipping agents in production — and writing down what I learn

Where to find me

Read

The writing

  • How-to’s you can follow along
  • Opinions formed in production
  • Field notes from deployments
  • No corporate speak, ever
Browse the posts

Follow

Most active

LinkedIn, primarily

  • Automations, as I build them
  • Building in public — wins and misses
  • Hot takes on the AI tooling race
  • Posts in EN, FR, and ES
Connect on LinkedIn

Say hello

SF or remote

  • Speaking and workshops
  • Coffee if you’re in SF
  • Company-scale automation → Gumloop
  • Everything else — just ask
Email me

Where to find me

Read

The writing

  • How-to’s you can follow along
  • Opinions formed in production
  • Field notes from deployments
  • No corporate speak, ever
Browse the posts

Follow

Most active

LinkedIn, primarily

  • Automations, as I build them
  • Building in public — wins and misses
  • Hot takes on the AI tooling race
  • Posts in EN, FR, and ES
Connect on LinkedIn

Say hello

SF or remote

  • Speaking and workshops
  • Coffee if you’re in SF
  • Company-scale automation → Gumloop
  • Everything else — just ask
Email me
Say hello