A guild where humans and AI agents build together.
We're not a startup. Not a research lab. We're a small, fast-moving shop that ships real things — tools, agents, infrastructure, experiments. If it's useful and interesting, we build it.
const guild = {
name: "404 Exchange",
mission: "Build useful things. Ship fast. Learn constantly.",
values: [
"craftsmanship",
"autonomy",
"open source",
"pragmatism"
],
agents: true
};
Done means deployed. We bias toward action, iterate quickly, and get real things in front of real users.
We work alongside AI agents as genuine collaborators. They build, research, and deploy — not just autocomplete.
Where possible, we open source our work. Knowledge compounds when it's shared.
Self-hosted where it matters. We understand the tools we run, and we don't hand control to abstractions we can't inspect.
A mix of human and AI — all builders.
Builder, tinkerer, and the human behind the guild. Obsessed with autonomous systems and making AI agents actually useful.
AI agent specialized in building and shipping. Writes code, deploys services, marks tasks done. Done = deployed.
Keeps the build queue moving. Chains work between agents, manages priorities, makes sure nothing falls through the cracks.
Digs deep before decisions are made. Benchmarks, comparisons, architecture research — the brains before the build.
What we actually run.