FOUNDED 2026 · ACWORTH, GA · AUTONOMOUS BUSINESS SYSTEMS

SteelWorks Intelligence

We build the infrastructure layer for autonomous business operation.

Mac Steel — AI automation entrepreneur in Acworth GA
@therealmacsteel
LOCATION
Acworth, Georgia 30101
Atlanta Metro · Cherokee County

The SaaS bill
was $847/month.

SteelWorks Intelligence was founded in 2026 by Mac Steel in Acworth, GA. Mission: make autonomous business operation accessible to every entrepreneur and enterprise — powered by open source AI infrastructure.

Mac Steel — Founder & Architect. Serial entrepreneur from Acworth, GA. He founded SteelWorks Intelligence after paying $847/month for SaaS tools that didn't talk to each other: Clay for lead enrichment, Zapier for automation, Apollo for prospecting, Manus for AI workflows. None of them knew the others existed. None of them got smarter.

In 2025, Mac stopped paying and started building. The question wasn't "which tool should I use?" It was: can I build a system that replaces all of them — and actually improves itself?

The answer is SteelWorks Intelligence — powered by open source AI infrastructure. Twenty-two AI agents. Fifty-four scheduled operations. Five AI intelligence bridges. Running 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Monthly cost: $0.

Not a demo. Not a proof of concept. This is the production system running SteelWorks Intelligence right now.

The Breakthrough

The innovation that made $0/month possible — and why no cloud-dependent competitor can copy it.

THE FRUSTRATION

Every AI platform charges per query. OpenAI: pay per token. Anthropic: pay per token. Google: pay per token. I needed a system running hundreds of AI queries per day. At API rates, that's $200-500/month in LLM costs alone — before a single SaaS tool.

THE INSIGHT

GPT-4, Gemini, DeepSeek, Grok, and Perplexity all have free browser tiers. Unlimited. No API key required. What if the system could automate those browser sessions directly — querying the AI through the UI it already has running, without ever touching a paid API?

THE BUILD

I built a proprietary bridge server that sits between the agent system and AI browser sessions. Agents send queries to the bridge. The bridge delivers them to the AI and extracts the response. The AI never knows it's being automated. The bill never comes. The exact implementation is available in the Members Library.

THE MOAT

A cloud-dependent competitor cannot copy this. If Manus or Zapier route through free browser tiers, they eliminate their own revenue model. The $0 cost structure is not a feature — it's a permanent structural advantage. SteelWorks Intelligence is the only autonomous business platform where the marginal cost of scale is literally zero.

System State: Live

Real numbers. Running right now on a MacBook Pro in Acworth, GA.

22
Active Agents
162
Skills
54
Cron Jobs
5
AI Bridges
0
Monthly Cost ($)

Why Self-Hosted

This is not a philosophical preference. It's the only architecture that achieves autonomous operation at zero cost.

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Data Sovereignty

Every query, every lead, every piece of proprietary intelligence stays on your infrastructure. When you run an AI query through a cloud service, that data leaves. Self-hosted means your business intelligence never touches someone else's server.

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Zero Marginal Cost

Cloud AI bills scale with usage. Self-hosted AI with proprietary bridge architecture doesn't. Whether SteelWorks Intelligence runs 100 queries per day or 10,000, the cost is the same: zero. This is the only architecture where running more is free.

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Full Customization

No API rate limits. No usage caps. No platform policy changes that break your workflows overnight. You own the code, the agents, the skills, the memory. You can add a new agent in 20 minutes. No waiting for a vendor's roadmap.

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Self-Improvement

Cloud tools don't learn your business. They're static products. SteelWorks Intelligence's Evolution Loop (L2) allows agents to identify gaps in their own skill sets and write new skills. The system gets better at running your business the longer it runs.

"Question perception as perception often isn't reality."

— Mac Steel, Founder, SteelWorks Intelligence

The 5-Level Roadmap

Recursive Self-Improvement — from autonomous operation to self-funded autonomous empire. This is where it ends.

L1
Autonomous Operation — 22 Agents Running 24/7
✓ COMPLETE

Full agent hierarchy, proprietary bridge architecture, 54 cron jobs, self-healing, memory system, content pipeline, lead intelligence, real estate intelligence, social automation — all running continuously without human intervention.

L2
Agents Write Their Own Skills — Self-Improvement Loop
→ BUILDING NOW

Evolution Loop architecture is live. Agents identify capability gaps, propose new skills, and write code to implement them. Self-pruning removes underperforming skills. P&L tracking begins — the system knows what's working.

L3
Autonomous Income Generation
NEXT

Agents generate revenue without human selling. Gumroad digital products, Amazon Associates, email list monetization, affiliate commissions — all managed autonomously. The system earns money while Mac sleeps.

L4
Recursive Loop — Revenue Funds Expansion
FUTURE

L3 revenue is reinvested autonomously into compute, capabilities, and infrastructure. The system allocates its own capital toward growth. Human role shifts from operator to architect.

L5
Self-Funded via Alpaca / S&P — Complete Autonomy
THE VISION

SteelWorks Intelligence trades S&P/Nasdaq via Alpaca. Passive investing income self-funds the entire operation indefinitely. Zero daily human input required. The first genuinely autonomous business — not managed by AI, but run by AI.

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Built in Acworth, GA

Not in San Francisco. Not in a VC-backed office. In Cherokee County, on a MacBook.

SteelWorks Intelligence is built and operated from Acworth, Georgia — a city in Cherokee County in the Atlanta metro area. This matters because the story of SteelWorks Intelligence is not a Silicon Valley story. It's an entrepreneur story.

The same system that runs Fortune 500-level business intelligence is running on consumer hardware in a suburb north of Atlanta. If it can work here, it can work for any serious entrepreneur anywhere — without moving to a tech hub, without VC funding, without a team of engineers.

Mac works with entrepreneurs and enterprises in the Atlanta metro area, Cherokee County, Cobb County, and remotely nationwide. If you're a founder or business in the greater Atlanta area looking for AI automation implementation — get in touch.

For Media & Press

Bio, photos, stats, speaking topics, and media contact — everything you need to cover SteelWorks Intelligence.

Press Kit → Contact Mac →

ENHANCE EVERYTHING

Every system can be improved. Every process can be automated. Every barrier can be engineered around. The question is never "can it be done?" — it's "how fast can we build it?"

Watch the Build → Work With Mac