BMD Pat LLC
Patrick Hughes
Builder of local-first AI tools · Nashville, TN
I run open models on my own hardware, publish the measurements, and ship the tools I end up needing.
AZ-305 · Azure Solutions Architect Expert
AI-102 · Azure AI Engineer Associate
Start here
See what actually ran.
Read the benchmark rows and failed runs, or see how I stop an agent before it runs up a bill or gets stuck in a loop.
Who I am
I'm Patrick Hughes. I build local-first AI tools and run BMD Pat LLC, a one-person holding company out of Nashville, on nights and weekends.
I came up through IT infrastructure, went deep on Azure and AI engineering, and earned the certs to prove it (Azure Solutions Architect Expert and AI Engineer Associate). The side business started with a crypto mining rig in 2017 and has compounded ever since: open source tools, automated trading, angel bets, a 199-episode podcast, and now a local AI lab running on my own GPUs.
Twenty-Two AI agents run the operations. I make the decisions. When I'm not doing either, I'm in a Dota match.
How BMD Pat runs itself
BMD Pat is run by AI agents as much as it's run by me. Agents post the blog. Agents triage inbound. Agents audit the autotrader at close. Agents send me a morning brief at 7 AM Central with everything I need to know in 300 words.
I work on the business. They work in it. That split only works if the products are small, the checkout is Stripe, and there are no calls to take.
Track record
AgentGuard
Open source · pip install agentguard47
A Python runtime guardrail SDK for AI agents: budget, loop, timeout, and rate limits before a run touches real work.
Entrefied podcast
199 episodes · 2016 to 2020
A long-running show on building businesses. Still pulling evergreen listens years after the last episode.
Local AI lab
RTX 5090 + 5070 Ti + 3070
Open models run and measured on my own GPUs. The measurements feed the sizing desk and the reports.
Angel portfolio
Equity crowdfunding · values-aligned
A small VC-style book across health-tech, platforms, and safety. Most go to zero; a few do not.
Azure certified
AZ-305 Expert · AI-102 Associate
Solutions Architect Expert and AI Engineer Associate, verifiable on Microsoft Learn.
Building in public
Blog · GitHub · real numbers
Shipped tools, failed runs, and the systems that run the company, documented with real numbers or none.
Org Chart
BMD HODL Organizational Structure
22 headcount. 0 human. 0 committee approvals required.
Patrick Hughes
The Only Human / Head of Everything That Actually Ships
No VP of Digital Transformation. No Center of Excellence for AI Enablement. No Change Advisory Board review pending.
operations
Morning Briefing
Chief of Staff
CMO
Chief Marketing Officer
Autotron
Head of Operations
Reflection
Head of Strategy
First-Paying-Customer
Head of Sales
finance
CFO
Chief Financial Officer
Stock Briefing
Equity Analyst
Crypto Briefing
Crypto Analyst
Autotrader
Portfolio Manager
growth
engineering
SDK Developer
Senior SDK Engineer
Dashboard Developer
Full-Stack Engineer
Marketing & Growth
Docs & Growth Lead
Project Manager
PM
infrastructure
Security Analyst
P0 Threat Detection
NightShift Supervisor
After-Hours Monitor
Email Router
Inbound Triage
Cleanup
Repo Hygiene
Monitoring
System Health
Cron Supervisor
Scheduler Oversight
FullAutoResearch
Research Director
BMDHodl Agent
Asset Tracker
HR Agent — Headcount Management — Currently: Active
Sole responsibility: maintaining this org chart. We automated HR. Of course we did.
The rig
Why I'm doing this
Freedom over revenue. Company of one, forever. I'd rather make $200 a month from six people who actually install AgentGuard than chase revenue that turns this back into services.
Ship things people actually pay for. Repeat. Keep the surface area small enough that one person can hold the whole thing in their head.
“I build systems that give people tools, capital, and freedom at scale.”
What I'm NOT
Not a consultant. Not an agency. Not taking calls. I'm not going to write you a proposal. I'm not going to align on scope over a 30-minute discovery session.
I ship tools. You buy them, or you don't. That's the whole relationship, and it's the one I wanted.
Skills & Stack
Background
I came up through IT infrastructure and systems engineering: cloud migrations, network operations, and regulated, high-stakes environments. Then I went deep on Azure and AI engineering. Fifteen years of turning messy systems into machines that keep running without me.
The certs are the paper trail (Azure Solutions Architect Expert and AI Engineer Associate, both verifiable on Microsoft Learn). The tools on this site are the current work: open models on owned hardware, measured honestly, packaged into products a stranger can use in under a minute.