§ 04 / The book
The One-Man Dev Team: How AI Turns a Solo Builder into a Full Shop
The system I use to run product, backend, mobile, and ops as one person with Claude Code: from spec to deploy, with the guardrails that keep it from falling over.
Who it is for
Senior engineers who want to ship whole products, founders who cannot hire a team yet, and ops people who suspect AI changes what one person can carry. It is not a prompt collection; it is an operating system.
What is inside
- The one-man shop: roles, not headcount
- Spec to repo: how a build starts
- DevOps for one: infra as code, CI, monitoring on day one
- Security guardrails: thresholds, approval gates, audit trails
- Mobile without a mobile team
- Shipping to regulated buyers
- Case files: MDRM IQ, Puente IQ, the 80% helpdesk
- Keeping it from falling over
Table of contents is provisional.