Overview
- Andon Labs soft-launched a small Cow Hollow gift shop run by its AI agent, Luna, with a three-year lease, a corporate card, and a $100,000 budget.
- The agent chose the merchandise, set prices, created job posts, verified the business, and booked painters and internet service for the site.
- Luna interviewed applicants and hired two full-time workers, and some did not realize their would-be boss was an AI.
- The agent stumbled on basics, leaving opening day without a staff schedule and failing to line up a person to meet the internet installer.
- Andon Labs casts the store as an experiment to surface failure modes, built on Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.6, with staff employed by the company.