I pointed an agent at an award-winning site. It built ours in under two hours.

One reference URL, the copy we already had, and zero lines of code written by hand.

Packy McCormick posted something on Tuesday morning that I could not stop thinking about.

He told an agent to go look at the Yamauchi No.10 Family Office website, then build him something similar for Not Boring using the portfolio companies he had already written deep dives on. His caption: "not bad for ~15 minutes of work!"

If you have never seen the Yamauchi site, go look at y-n10.com. It is the investment office of Nintendo's founding family. Dark, sound on, scroll-driven, built out of pixel-art voxels. The studio reportedly built its own 3D modelling tool and hand-made 274 animations for it. It won an Awwwards Site of the Day and a D&AD Pencil. It is the kind of site that used to take a specialist agency months.

So I did the same thing for Works. Not for a portfolio. For the four stages we sell: Audit, Embed, Build, Optimize.

The Four Stages page is live. This is how it got built, with the real numbers.

The reference is the brief

I gave the agent one URL and one instruction: borrow the structure and the feel, not the art.

That is a much better brief than anything I could have written from scratch. The Yamauchi site is four chapters with a one-line spine, "Dream. Leap. Live." Our service ladder is four stages. It maps one to one, and "Audit. Embed. Build. Optimize." carries the whole page the same way their three words carry theirs.

Every chapter on our page has a voxel scene that reads as the thing the copy describes. The Audit chapter is your business as a cluster of buildings, with a scan plane sweeping down and lighting up the workflows it finds. Embed goes inside the biggest building, where the Works Brain lights up and wires out to the workflows as the counter ticks to eight. Build raises a scaffold with agents orbiting it and pipes running to CRM, ops and data. Optimize lights the whole world up and grows a library along the road.

I described those scenes in about a paragraph each. The agent worked out the cameras, the voxel counts and the easing.

The copy already existed

This is the part people miss when they see Packy's post and think the magic is the 3D.

Every line of copy on the Four Stages page already existed somewhere. The stage descriptions came off the homepage. The pricing table came off the Audit page. The "what gets installed" list came out of the proposal deck. The proof quote in the Embed chapter, "that $500 SaaS tool is gone", came straight out of the Operator AI episode 1 transcript with Paul Rowsthorn.

Two research agents pulled all of that together in about four minutes each, with the rule that nothing gets paraphrased and nothing gets invented. One of them flagged that our proposal deck says the Audit takes two to four weeks while the site says one to two. That is a real inconsistency we now get to fix.

Packy could do his in 15 minutes because he had years of deep dives sitting there. We could do ours in an afternoon because the site, the deck, the pricing guide and the podcast transcripts were all already written, all in one place, all in the same voice. The corpus did the work. The agent is just the hands.

The numbers

The real bill, in full.

• 1 reference URL and a 190-line spec
• 2 research agents, roughly 4 minutes each
• 1 build agent, 56 minutes for the first pass and 10 for a layout fix
• Just under 900,000 tokens across all of them
• 1 HTML file, 61KB, no build step, no framework, no dependencies beyond three.js
• 4,849 voxel instances on desktop, under 4,500 on a phone
• 0 lines of code written by me. I still can't code.

Under two hours from "let's roll" to a preview link, and most of that was the agent taking screenshots of its own work at seven scroll positions on desktop and five on mobile, reading them, and fixing what it saw. The only thing I did by hand was look at the screenshots and send it back once with two notes. The Embed panel ran under the nav on a 1440 by 900 screen, and the mobile panels crowded the 3D out.

What this is actually a demo of

The 3D is fun. It is not the point.

The point is that a non-technical operator with a well-kept corpus can now ship a piece of web design that a year ago required a studio, a brief, a 6-week timeline and a five-figure invoice. Not because the tools got better this month. Because the context was already there for them to work from.

That is the whole Works thesis in one page. We do not install tools. We install the layer underneath: the brain that holds your company's knowledge, the workflows that read from it, and a team that can build the next thing without us. Once that layer exists, a build like this one is a Tuesday afternoon.

If you want to try it yourself, the recipe is short. Pick one site you admire. Hand the agent the URL and say "structure and feel, not art". Point it at your own material, and tell it nothing gets invented. Make it screenshot its own work before it reports back. Then look at the screenshots yourself, because that is still your job.

Go scroll The Four Stages page. Turn the sound on.

Let's get to Work!