Glad Labs
One person. Local AI.
Unlimited scale.
I'm Matt Gladding, and Glad Labs is my proof that the rules of business just changed. One developer with the right AI systems can do what used to require an entire team — and I'm building that reality in the open.
The system running this site is an autonomous content pipeline: AI agents that research, draft, critique, refine, and publish — with quality scoring at every stage. It's not a toy demo — and the system gets better with every run.
The big idea? A Personal Media Operating System — autonomous content generation, multi-platform distribution, social scheduling, stream clipping, photo-to-multi-format — everything a creator needs to run a professional media presence without the operational overhead. I'm building it for myself first, then opening it up.
This isn't corporate AI theater. No pitch deck, no buzzwords, no pretending GPT wrappers are products. I write about what I actually build, what actually works, and what doesn't. If something breaks, you'll read about that too.
The Stack
- Local AI on RTX 5090 via Ollama
- Multi-provider LLM routing (Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini)
- 6-stage self-critiquing agent pipeline
- FastAPI backend, async throughout
- PostgreSQL + embeddings (shared brain)
- Next.js 15 on Vercel + Railway
The Mission
- Prove one person + AI = unlimited output
- Build systems that run while you sleep
- No hype — only what actually works
- AI as coworker, not just a tool
- Open and honest about the process
- Ship it, don't deck it
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Human Operator
24/7
AI Uptime
The future is one person with the right systems.
Read what we're building, how we're building it, and why the old rules don't apply anymore.