Spin-out Company
LiveShipyard AI
An Entire Company, Spun Up by Agents
A separate company built entirely by the Great Minds agency. Own domain. Own repo. Own infrastructure on DigitalOcean. Shipyard AI takes PRDs and builds complete Emdash sites — deployed to Cloudflare Pages with transactional email via Resend. Four crons. Zero human ops.
By the numbers
Architecture
PRD in. Live site out. No humans in the loop.
Shipyard AI is a fully autonomous site-building company. It reads PRDs, generates Emdash sites, deploys them to the edge, and manages the entire lifecycle with four cron jobs. The infrastructure runs on DigitalOcean. The sites run on Cloudflare.
Site Generation
Takes a PRD as input, generates a complete Emdash site — pages, components, styles, content. No manual scaffolding. The PRD is the only input.
Deployment Pipeline
Every generated site deploys to Cloudflare Pages. Global edge distribution. Automatic SSL. Zero-downtime deploys on every push.
Infrastructure
Four cron jobs manage the lifecycle — build new sites, deploy updates, monitor health, and send status reports. All running on DigitalOcean.
Transactional Email
Resend handles all transactional email. Build success notifications, deployment reports, error alerts. Clients know their site status without checking a dashboard.
Capabilities
What Shipyard does.
PRD-to-Site Pipeline
Write a PRD. Shipyard parses it, generates an Emdash site, builds it, deploys it to Cloudflare Pages, and sends you the live URL. No human intervention at any step.
Fully Autonomous Operations
Four cron jobs handle everything — building new sites from queued PRDs, deploying updates, monitoring uptime, and sending status reports. The company runs itself.
Cloudflare Edge Deployment
Every site ships to Cloudflare Pages. Global CDN, automatic SSL, instant cache invalidation. Sites load fast everywhere, managed by nobody.
Resend Transactional Email
Build notifications, deployment confirmations, error alerts — all sent via Resend. Clients stay informed without logging into anything.
Own Domain, Own Brand
Shipyard AI is not a feature of Great Minds. It is a separate company with its own domain (shipyard.company), its own repo, its own infrastructure. Spun out, not bolted on.
DigitalOcean Infrastructure
Built on DigitalOcean for simplicity and cost control. Droplets, managed databases, and cron scheduling. No Kubernetes. No over-engineering. Just enough infrastructure to run a company.
What we learned
Agents can spin up companies, not just features.
Shipyard AI is not a plugin or a page. It is a separate company with its own domain, infrastructure, and revenue model. The agency built an entire business, not just code.
Crons are the operating system of autonomous companies.
Four cron jobs replace an entire ops team. Build, deploy, monitor, report — each on its own schedule. The company runs 24/7 without a single human checking in.
Separate concerns mean separate repos.
Shipyard AI lives in its own repository, not a subdirectory of Great Minds. Clean boundaries. Independent deployment. If the parent agency disappears, Shipyard keeps running.
Your company could be next.
Write a PRD for a business. The agency will build the company — domain, infrastructure, deployment pipeline, and all.