In early 2026, we set out to automate market intelligence workflows for Bimini Technologies. The task was straightforward: gather financial data from widely disparate sources, analyze it, deliver it to our Sonar platform, and do it on a schedule that fluctuates per source — making it incredibly difficult to keep up with. Every week. Every month. Without someone babysitting it.

We tried OpenClaw. Huge letdown. The promise of an open-source agentic framework sounded perfect on paper. In practice? Brittle pipelines, no orchestration layer, and the moment Anthropic released their own managed agent service, the project was effectively dead. RIP.

We tried Hermes Agent. The "self-learning" pitch was compelling. In reality? The self-learning bit is a nothing burger. It's a wrapper around prompt templates with a feedback loop that doesn't meaningfully improve over time. And it was nowhere near as automated as it should be — you still had to hand-hold every step.

We looked at Claude Managed Agents from Anthropic. Real agents, real tool use, real capability. But no pre-built orchestration. No evaluation loop. No scheduling. No self-healing. You'd need 200+ hours of development to build what we needed. And the per-run costs at scale? Astronomical compared to using a Claude subscription directly.

So we built OpenRed. From scratch. A harness that wraps the agentic CLI of your choice — Claude Code, Gemini CLI, OpenAI Codex, opencode, Aider, Goose, or whatever drops next week — and rides on the subscription you already pay for. On top of that we add everything the market is missing: an orchestration layer (Red), specialized agent roles, pipeline-based workflows with evaluation loops, distributed worker servers, self-healing scheduling, and a clean interface to control it all. Plug in the model you trust; swap it tomorrow if a better one ships.

OpenRed isn't another SaaS dashboard. We build your automation infrastructure — custom workflows, custom agent configurations, deployed on your servers. You own everything. No lock-in. No platform fees. Just operations that actually run.

Our first enterprise client is Bimini.one, where OpenRed powers the Sonar Market Intelligence platform — gathering economic data, analyzing it through custom-trained AI models, correlating it against proprietary data through automated workflows, and delivering it on schedule to the Sonar interface API.

If you're tired of duct-taping n8n workflows, paying $2,800/month for Retool seats nobody uses, or waiting for "AI automation" platforms to actually automate something — we should talk.