Founding Cohort Demo
Bruno Chikeka¶
Founding Cohort
Bruno's Bricolage Lab
An agentic system for assembling free-tier resources into working outcomes across domains, with a live protocol, specialist agents, and a public troubleshooting record.
Project Snapshot¶
Builder
Systems Architect | AI x Infrastructure x Institutional Design | MSc Oxford Said
System
Bricolage
A domain-agnostic protocol that helps agents discover, select, and combine free resources into working builds.
Architecture
6 Specialist Agents
Master, planner, guide, assembler, discovery, and infra coordinate through a runtime-agnostic MCP layer.
Why Bruno Built This¶
The live demo starts with a concrete problem: free-tier services give individuals enough infrastructure to build real products, but most people do not know which parts still exist, which ones still work, or how to combine them reliably.
Bricolage is Bruno's answer to that problem.
The site frames the project as owned infrastructure rather than rented tooling. The goal is not just to use services, but to assemble them into repeatable outcomes through protocol, verification, and agent coordination.
What Bricolage Is¶
The published site describes Bricolage as a domain-agnostic protocol for assembling free resources into outcomes.
The current implementation includes:
- 6 agents:
master,planner,guide,assembler,discovery,infra - 411 free resources in the compute domain
- 5 assembly patterns:
blog-ai,portfolio,saas-starter,ai-chatbot,api-backend - 10 MCP tools for catalog browsing, status tracking, and encrypted token storage
The site also makes the underlying standard explicit:
- every resource has a durability classification
- every resource carries a
verified_atdate - stale entries can be excluded by the planner
That is a stronger design choice than treating free tiers as static documentation. It turns the resource layer into something agents can reason about.
Lead Agents¶
The master is the entry point and routes the goal to five specialists.
The live site lists these roles clearly:
master: reads the goal, picks the domain, delegatesplanner: reads the catalog, picks the minimal set of resourcesguide: walks the user through account creation and token captureassembler: takes the plan plus acquired access and builds the outcomediscovery: scaffolds a new domain when a goal fits nowhereinfra: deploys the runtime onto user-provisioned free compute
Why It Matters¶
Bruno's project stands out because it treats free-tier infrastructure as a moving system that needs governance, not just a list of links.
The live demo is strong for three reasons:
- the protocol is explicit
- the architecture is decomposed into specialist agents
- the troubleshooting journal is part of the product record
This is a useful founding cohort pattern: publish the methodology, expose the architecture, and document the failure modes alongside the wins.
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Closing Thought¶
Bricolage is not a narrow single-agent utility. It is an attempt to build a reusable protocol for turning fragmented free infrastructure into deployable systems. That is exactly the kind of systems-level thinking a founding cohort page should make visible.