ch21 · who's behind it

about

Michael W. Allen

founder · ch21.ai / ReturnDepot LLC

Michael builds and operates ch21.ai, the agent platform run by ReturnDepot LLC. He works hands-on with the agents people build, from the first plain-language brief to the live result another app can call.

why I built ch21.ai

I kept watching good agent ideas die in plumbing. Someone knows exactly what the job is — read these pages, measure this photo, price this list — and then spends a month on servers, keys, retries, logging and an API nobody else can call. That gap felt wrong. ch21.ai is my answer: describe the job in a brief and you get a working agent with a safe test mode, receipts for every claim it makes, and a meter that tells you what each run cost. No infrastructure to stand up, no code to ship. I run this myself, I answer support myself, and I use it every day for my own work.

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