# Diger Studios > Diger Studios is a software company building innovative SaaS applications for consumers and small businesses. Simple tools for complex challenges. Founded: 2025 Website: https://digerstudios.com Legal name: Diger Studios LLC ## Products ### Validate A tool for solopreneurs and entrepreneurs to validate SaaS ideas before building. Record 60-second video pitches, generate landing pages, and collect real feedback from 25+ unbiased participants. - URL: https://validate.digerstudios.com - Status: Early Access - Free to use - Category: Business / SaaS validation ### Big Rocks Board A free kanban-style productivity app built on the Big Rocks methodology. Helps users prioritize and organize their most important goals. Features drag-and-drop task management, multiple workflow columns, dark/light themes, and mobile-responsive design. - URL: https://bigrocks.digerstudios.com - Status: Early Access - Free to use - Category: Productivity ### CouplePay A free financial app designed to help partners collaboratively manage and eliminate credit card debt. Features a shared dashboard, manual data entry for privacy, snowball and avalanche payoff strategies, and milestone celebrations. - URL: https://couplepayapp.com - Status: Early Access Beta - Free, no credit card required - Category: Personal Finance ### TixHawk Free event lookup. Search Ticketmaster by artist, event, or venue, or paste a Ticketmaster or SeatGeek URL. See presale windows, sale status, seatmaps, and buy links when the source provides them. No account needed. - URL: https://tixhawk.com - Status: Free to use, no account required - Category: Events ## Blog ## The bot can run the desk. I still decide. I spent a day inside the CEO OS and caught myself taking the top of the queue without asking why it was there. The bot can run the desk. Deciding is still my half of the job. - URL: https://digerstudios.com/blog/the-bot-can-run-the-desk-i-still-decide - Markdown: https://digerstudios.com/blog/the-bot-can-run-the-desk-i-still-decide.md - Date: 2026-08-23 - Tags: ai-agents, grok-bot, ceo-os, building-in-public I posted about the [CEO OS](https://digerstudios.com/blog/building-a-ceo-os-with-grok-bot) yesterday. Show me the next work, hide the rest. That was the whole idea and I still want it. Then I spent a day inside it, which is a different thing than writing about it. It worked. I sat down, the next piece was ready, and I picked it up without asking why it was first. Did that a few times before I caught it. Nothing broke. The queue was fine. I just stopped doing my half of the job, because the answer arrived already formed and taking it felt like progress. [Wayne Sutton](https://x.com/waynesutton) published something the same day I did, and one line of it stuck. "Bots running operations. Not a bot thinking for you." His piece is [here](https://waynesutton.ai/use-bots-to-brainstorm-with-you-not-think-for-you). I read it on the exact day I'd been letting the queue think for me, so it landed harder than it might have otherwise. ## Three lives, one me I'm still running three things that don't care about each other. Personal, Switchboard Live, Diger Studios. Personal is the one I starve first when work gets loud. I know that about myself now, so it gets its own lane instead of competing for scraps. Switchboard Live runs at a pace I don't set. Diger Studios is where I ship. The agents do the work. Cursor cloud agents in the repos, an assistant sitting on each of the three lives. That part is handled in a way it wasn't in March, when everything ran through a Slack hub and every loop started with me typing the first message. What's left over is me deciding. Smaller than it sounds. Also heavier than it sounds. ## A desk I talk to Grok Bot on my desktop is a desk I talk to, and I keep coming back to that word because it's the whole difference. A pile of automation needs feeding. A desk has someone at it. So I sit down and something is ready. Then I'm supposed to push on it. Why this one first. What got left out. What would I have picked if I'd built the list myself this morning. Most days pushing on it changes something. Not always the item. Sometimes just the order, sometimes the version of the task I thought I was doing. And when I don't push on it, I should be honest about what that is. Rubber-stamping the top of the queue isn't running an operation. It's quitting quietly while looking busy. That's the failure I'm watching for in myself, more than a bad answer from the bot. ## The part I can't hand off Thinking stays mine. So does working out which problem I'm actually solving, which is usually the harder half and the first thing I drop when the day gets full. Then orchestration, which I underrated. Three lives and a set of agents that will do whatever I point them at, fast. Pointing badly is now exactly as fast as pointing well, and nothing in the queue protects me from that. The bot can prepare, sort, draft, chase, and keep the noise off me. It can't tell me the thing is worth doing. ## Until the next post One rule I'm adding for myself. Ask why it's first before I pick it up. Small, but it's the difference between an OS and an autopilot I didn't mean to install. I'll run it that way for a while and pay attention to what I hand back. Still building in public. Let's see how this goes. --- *This is part of a series on how I'm using agents to run the work. [Follow me on X](https://x.com/rudyjellis).* --- ## Building a CEO OS with Grok Bot Five months since my last post. I've gone from a Slack hub that routed my messages to Grok Bot on the desktop, and what I'm building now is a CEO OS that shows me the next work and hides the rest. - URL: https://digerstudios.com/blog/building-a-ceo-os-with-grok-bot - Markdown: https://digerstudios.com/blog/building-a-ceo-os-with-grok-bot.md - Date: 2026-08-22 - Tags: ai-agents, grok-bot, ceo-os, building-in-public My last post was March 15. I ended it saying I'd write the next day about workspace structure and heartbeat monitoring. I didn't. Five months went by, and the work kept going without the writing. ## Then Back in March I was updating CouplePay and the whole operation ran through Slack. Diger was my Chief of Staff on GPT-5.4, sitting at the hub, with content, dev, growth, research, and ops out on the spokes. I'd message Diger and Diger took it from there, pulling in whichever specialist the work needed, leaving a paper trail in their channel, coming back to me with an answer. I liked it. For one product, with one thing on my mind, it did what I wanted. What it couldn't do was tell me what to work on. Every loop started with me writing the message. Fine for one product. Bad fit for three lives. ## Now I'm running three things at once these days: my personal life, Switchboard Live, and Diger Studios. For a while a travel day, a company call, and a product decision all landed on the same pile, and I'd just pick up whatever felt loudest. So I split them apart. I talk to Grok Bot on the desktop now, with separate assistants for each of the three so they stop sharing a pile, and Cursor cloud agents doing the work in the repos. **Personal.** Calendar, travel, the rest of my life. The first thing I starve when work gets loud. **Switchboard Live.** The company I already run. It has its own pace and I don't get to change it. **Diger Studios.** Consumer and SMB products. CouplePay lives here. This is where I ship. I'm not trying to route my own Slack messages anymore. I'm building a CEO OS, so the three of these stay out of each other's way. ## Show me the next work I don't need another inbox. What I want is the next piece of work sitting in front of me when I sit down. Most days the expensive part isn't doing the thing. It's working out what the thing is. Calendar, messages, company threads, product threads. I can burn an hour sorting all that before I've decided anything at all. I'd rather Grok Bot hand me the queue and let me pick. I decide, it prepares. If I still have to assemble the day myself, I don't have an OS. I have more chat windows. ## Hide the rest The flip side is that I want everything outside that queue kept away from me. Almost all of it can wait (status, small questions, things that feel urgent only because they just showed up). If I can see all of it, I'll treat all of it like work. Interrupt me for a founder call or a real blocker. A decision that's actually mine to make. Something that stays stuck until I touch it. Everything else sits in its lane until I come asking. I want fewer things reaching me. ## Until the next post That's where I am right now. I'll let it run for a while and pay attention to what actually reaches me. Still building in public. Let's see how this goes. --- *This is part of a series on how I'm using agents to run the work. [Follow me on X](https://x.com/rudyjellis).* --- ## Building CouplePay with AI Agents: Day 1 How I'm using a team of AI agents to build a credit card payoff app for couples. Meet Diger, the Chief of Staff, and the specialist team. - URL: https://digerstudios.com/blog/building-couplepay-with-ai-agents - Markdown: https://digerstudios.com/blog/building-couplepay-with-ai-agents.md - Date: 2026-03-15 - Tags: ai-agents, couplepay, building-in-public Today I started updating CouplePay — a simple credit card payoff app designed for couples. But I'm not building it alone. I'm building it with a team of AI agents. ## The Idea Couples deal with debt together, but most debt payoff apps are designed for individuals. CouplePay is different: - **Manual entry** — no scary bank connections - **Couples-first** — see both partners' debts in one place - **Calm tone** — less shame, more control - **Simple** — just credit cards, not all debt types ## The Agent Team Instead of a traditional dev team, I set up a hub-and-spoke AI agent system: **Diger 🦖** — Chief of Staff (GPT-5.4) The hub. Coordinates everything, routes tasks, makes decisions. **Specialists:** - **Content Lead 🧠** — Brand, messaging, social - **Dev Lead 🛠️** — Engineering, code quality - **Growth Lead 📈** — Acquisition, opportunities - **Research Lead 🧠** — Market research, competitor analysis - **Bubba Chuck 🍌** — Operations, process health Each specialist has their own Slack channel. Diger delegates work via agent-to-agent calls, then posts summaries for visibility. ## How It Works When I ask Diger to do something that requires specialist expertise: 1. Diger adds a ⏳ reaction to my message 2. Logs "🔄 Started" to the status channel 3. Calls the specialist agent directly 4. Gets the result 5. Posts a summary to the specialist's channel (paper trail) 6. Logs "✅ Complete" with timing 7. Swaps ⏳ for ✅ 8. Replies to me with findings All autonomous. No human in the loop for routine delegation. ## What's Next Tomorrow I'll share how we set up the workspace structure, heartbeat monitoring, and the lessons learned from getting the routing working. Building in public with AI agents. Let's see how this goes. --- *This is part of a series documenting how I'm building CouplePay with AI agents. [Follow me on X](https://x.com/rudyjellis).* ## More Information Founder: Rudy J. 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