About

agent-ic is a technology holding company and family office. Four AI-native business units — apartment locating, landlord representation, renters insurance, financial analysis — each with its own codebase, its own revenue model, and its own AI agent in production. This site is the portfolio: the technology I built, the operational lessons I learned, and the writing about what it actually takes to run all of this alone.

30,000 leads a day. Zero human engineers. Every system built and operated by one person in a terminal.

What We Operate

Apartment Locator — AI agent that takes inbound leads from listing services and paid search. Qualifies, matches to inventory, drives to tours and lease signings. We're the middleman — we remarket leads to cooperating buildings that pay us commission. 50% to 100%+ of first month's rent per conversion.

Landlord Rep (Blue Lake) — We operate as the actual leasing office for a portfolio of multifamily properties. Document collection, tenant screening, voucher processing, application management. First contact through lease signing, fully automated.

Insurance Agent (Ken) — SMS-based renters insurance sales. HO4 policies through a Fortune 500 carrier. Outbound-first. The agent collects address and move-in details through conversation, quotes via the carrier API, and closes. Separate codebase, separate business model, separate vertical.

Financial Analysis — Automated P&L, payment reconciliation, revenue tracking, commission verification. Scripts and automations that run against seven years of transaction data.

The Stack

Shared infrastructure across all four units: Cloud SQL Postgres (production + legacy read replicas going back to 2021), Celery/Redis task queues, GKE cluster, SMS gateway, voice AI for automated building calls. Claude Opus as the primary LLM for all conversation and reasoning. Gemini for bulk mechanical work only — embeddings, entity extraction. Eight deterministic hooks enforce safety rules that can't be skipped or overridden. Seven CLAUDE.md governance files — 1,334 lines — encode every operational lesson from seven years of production incidents.

This isn't a prototype. These systems have been in production for years, processing real volume, generating real revenue, every day.

Investments

agent-ic is part of Chopra Ventures, the family holding company. Chopra Ventures makes investments in technology, real estate, and operations-heavy businesses where AI can collapse cost structures the way it did here. If you're building something where the unit economics change when you remove the humans from the loop, we should talk.

Who

Mukund Chopra. Chicago. Queen's Commerce and HEC Paris. Previously Citibank, Tata Steel, Groupon (through the IPO), CEO of MD HomeCall (acquired), venture partner at Panache Ventures. Two IPOs. One real estate company that turned into an AI company.

The essays on this site are about what it actually takes to build and operate production AI systems alone. The assets page shows the technology. The essays show the thinking.