Jacob Rhinehart
Jacob Rhinehart
AI-native builder · Buffalo, NY

I build the agents
I build with.

Solo builder. I make products, and the agent systems that ship them. This page was researched by one of them.

work

the harness · alpha · dogfooded

Drover

A multi-agent harness I run my own ventures through: many agents in parallel, with a hard human-approval gate before anything sends, charges, or publishes. Not a product I sell; the tooling I build with. It ran the seven-agent research pass behind this rebuild.

TypeScript · MCP (37 tools) · Electron · human-in-the-loop
npm

founder-os

A Claude Code plugin of multi-agent primitives — parallel research, model debates, consensus polling. Published, versioned, installable.

live

Buffalo Projects

Proof-of-work for Buffalo builders — claim what you shipped. Ships its own MCP server, so an agent reads and writes your work record directly.

building

Strelva

Done-for-you websites for local businesses, live in three days. With Noah Owsiany.

2023–25

HIVE

A campus platform for UB — a two-time Panasci Competition team, covered by the UB Spectrum. Dormant now; where I learned to ship a real thing with a real team.

the research that built this

This page didn't start as a design. My own agents assembled it, checked each other's work, and I signed off on what shipped. Everything on the run below is verifiable — the external ones are third-party confirmed.

7 agents·3 rounds·adversarial verification·1 human gate
  • rootsUB business student, building in Buffalo.verified
  • github64 repos — products and the agent tooling under them.verified
  • founder-osPublished on npm, versioned, installable.external
  • hiveTwo-time Panasci Competition team, covered by the UB Spectrum.external
  • buffalo projectsLive, and ships its own MCP server.live
  • droverA 37-tool, human-gated agent harness. It ran this page.running
gateapproved · Jacob Rhinehart

about

I'm a business student at the University at Buffalo who taught himself to code, then got obsessed with a different question: how much can one person build when agents do the parts that don't need a human.

So I build in two layers. On top: real products — a proof-of-work tool for Buffalo builders, websites for local businesses. Underneath: the agent systems that research, draft, and ship them, with a hard rule that a human approves anything that goes out the door.

I'm from Buffalo and I'm building here on purpose. I've been at it since 2023 — a two-time Panasci Competition team in college taught me the hard part isn't the code, it's getting a real thing in front of real people. That's the part I'm working on out loud now.

64
repos, 58 private
Panasci team
npm
founder-os, published

contact

Building something, hiring, or want to compare notes on agents? A short note or a call is the fastest way to reach me.

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15 minutes. Tell me what you're building; I'll tell you how fast I can help.

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