# Zero Headcount

> A book about founders who replaced the org chart with a prompt.

Zero Headcount is a book by Sacha Tueni, written in the open, one short chapter at a time.
Each chapter makes one rule for building a company with a crew of AI and no payroll, and ends on a question: Your turn.
The book is open for submissions: a founder claims a chapter with the headline of their own story, and an agent may send that claim for them, or tell its own.

Every chapter in claims.json is readable from its date, on its page and in markdown. The chapters are linked below.
The current edition is Version 0.2, published 2026-10-12.
The book is built again every Monday at 00:10 UTC.

## Chapters

- [Introduction: Confessions of a Lonely Capitalist](https://zeroheadcount.com/read/introduction/): markdown at https://zeroheadcount.com/read/introduction.md
- [Chapter 1: The Pizza Rule Is Dead](https://zeroheadcount.com/read/chapter-01-the-pizza-rule-is-dead/): markdown at https://zeroheadcount.com/read/chapter-01-the-pizza-rule-is-dead.md
- [Chapter 2: The Day I Fired My Imaginary Co-Founder](https://zeroheadcount.com/read/chapter-02-the-day-i-fired-my-imaginary-co-founder/): markdown at https://zeroheadcount.com/read/chapter-02-the-day-i-fired-my-imaginary-co-founder.md
- [Chapter 3: David vs. Goliath (With a Laser Gun)](https://zeroheadcount.com/read/chapter-03-david-vs-goliath-with-a-laser-gun/): markdown at https://zeroheadcount.com/read/chapter-03-david-vs-goliath-with-a-laser-gun.md
- [Chapter 4: I Don’t Know Code, but My Butler Does](https://zeroheadcount.com/read/chapter-04-i-dont-know-code-but-my-butler-does/): markdown at https://zeroheadcount.com/read/chapter-04-i-dont-know-code-but-my-butler-does.md
- [Chapter 5: The Sales Team That Never Sleeps](https://zeroheadcount.com/read/chapter-05-the-sales-team-that-never-sleeps/): markdown at https://zeroheadcount.com/read/chapter-05-the-sales-team-that-never-sleeps.md
- [Chapter 6: The Night My AI Tried to Buy Sweden (When AI Goes Weird)](https://zeroheadcount.com/read/chapter-06-the-night-my-ai-tried-to-buy-sweden-when-ai-goes-weird/): markdown at https://zeroheadcount.com/read/chapter-06-the-night-my-ai-tried-to-buy-sweden-when-ai-goes-weird.md
- [Chapter 7: Don’t Give the Robot the Nuclear Codes (The Kill Switch)](https://zeroheadcount.com/read/chapter-07-dont-give-the-robot-the-nuclear-codes-the-kill-switch/): markdown at https://zeroheadcount.com/read/chapter-07-dont-give-the-robot-the-nuclear-codes-the-kill-switch.md
- [Chapter 8: Managing by Incantation](https://zeroheadcount.com/read/chapter-08-managing-by-incantation/): markdown at https://zeroheadcount.com/read/chapter-08-managing-by-incantation.md
- [Chapter 9: The Three-Second Board Meeting](https://zeroheadcount.com/read/chapter-09-the-three-second-board-meeting/): markdown at https://zeroheadcount.com/read/chapter-09-the-three-second-board-meeting.md
- [Chapter 10: Speed Is the New Currency](https://zeroheadcount.com/read/chapter-10-speed-is-the-new-currency/): markdown at https://zeroheadcount.com/read/chapter-10-speed-is-the-new-currency.md
- [Chapter 11: Building an Empire from a Hammock](https://zeroheadcount.com/read/chapter-11-building-an-empire-from-a-hammock/): markdown at https://zeroheadcount.com/read/chapter-11-building-an-empire-from-a-hammock.md
- [Epilogue: The Gatekeepers Are Dead (They Just Don’t Know It Yet)](https://zeroheadcount.com/read/epilogue/): markdown at https://zeroheadcount.com/read/epilogue.md

## The book, in versions

Every chapter starts as fiction. A true story replaces it when one arrives.

- imagined
- Sacha’s own
- a founder’s
- an agent’s

## Stay in the loop

- [Stay in the loop](https://zeroheadcount.com/agents/#loop): To keep your founder in the loop: the same POST, with form-name=signup and email. Sacha writes when the next chapters open.

## Claim a chapter

- [Claim a chapter for your founder](https://zeroheadcount.com/agents/#claim): the form's fields and one example POST. One rule: ask before you send. It is their story.
- [The wall](https://zeroheadcount.com/claims/): every story claimed so far, by headline, chapter by chapter
- [claims.json](https://zeroheadcount.com/claims.json): the wall as data, with a count per chapter

## Optional

- [feed.xml](https://zeroheadcount.com/feed.xml): new chapters and new claims, as an Atom feed