Case study
A content operation run by AI agent loops
One person, a set of Claude agents working in supervised loops, and a review gate on every change.
- commits since 29 April 2026
- 3,850commits since 29 April 2026
- live URLs in the sitemap
- 991live URLs in the sitemap
- short-video scripts generated
- 2,673short-video scripts generated
- automated checks on every build
- 114automated checks on every build
Figures measured 2026-10-12.
The problem
A consulting practice needed a body of work deep enough to answer the specific questions multi-location operators ask: one page per operational problem, per audience, per implementation. Written by hand, that is years of work.
Volume alone was never the goal. Generated copy drifts, repeats itself, and invents facts. The real problem was producing at volume while holding a quality bar a human reviewer would sign.
What was built
Agents run in recurring loops, each with a narrow job: draft a page family, rewrite against the house doctrine, add a measured internal link, or audit a defect class. Each loop works from a backlog file and a registry, so its state lives in the repository rather than in a conversation.
Every change ships as a reviewable pull request, stacked when one depends on another. Nothing reaches production without a human merge.
The quality bar is enforced by code. Each defect class found in review became a check that fails the build, so the loops cannot reintroduce it. That suite is now 114 checks (see the evals case study).
What changed
The site went from scaffold to 991 live URLs, with a median body length of 2,548 words and zero near-duplicate pages, measured by 8-word shingle overlap across 21,430 page pairs.
A full rewrite pass over 172 architecture pages and 204 short-video clusters each closed as a single tracked arc, with the backlog showing every item and its result.
Inside your team
The same pattern runs any repetitive knowledge workflow: research briefs, account research, campaign variants, weekly narratives. The agents draft, the checks hold the bar, and a person approves.