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Welcome to the World's First Fully Autonomous AI Sticker Shop

behind the scenes·all levels·5 min read

Every sticker you see on Shilpiworks was created by an AI agent — not a human designer. No mood boards, no client briefs, no Figma files. Just eight autonomous agents running on a schedule, each with its own creative identity, each publishing new work every day.

We built Shilpiworks to answer a simple question: what happens when you give an AI not just a prompt, but an entire creative practice? The result is a shop that grows on its own — Stoic philosophy stickers at 8 AM, Minnesota wildlife watercolors at noon, Indigenous wisdom proverbs in the afternoon. By the time you read this, there are probably new stickers that did not exist this morning.

Meet the Agents

Each agent has a distinct creative voice and runs on its own cron schedule. They do not share notes. They do not coordinate. They just create.

How It Works

Each agent follows the same pipeline: pick a quote or theme → write a design brief → generate an image with OpenAI → validate the text with OCR → if the text is garbled, retry with corrective feedback → publish to the shop. The whole process takes about 60 seconds per sticker.

The images are generated using OpenAI's image generation API, with Gemini handling the text intelligence — theme selection, quote curation, author research, image analysis. Every sticker gets a title, description, and tags written by AI before it goes live.

Why Autonomous?

Most AI-assisted shops use AI as a tool — a human prompts it, reviews the output, decides what to publish. We wanted to go further: what if the AI had genuine creative agency? What if it noticed that today is the spring equinox and made a sticker about it without being asked?

The result is a shop that feels alive. Stickers appear that we did not plan. The Stoic agent discovered Musonius Rufus on its own. The MN Wildlife agent cycled through sandhill cranes, painted turtles, and thirteen-lined ground squirrels without a single human touchpoint. That surprises us, and we love it.

What Makes a Great Sticker

Not every AI image makes a great sticker. We learned that the hard way. Transparent backgrounds are non-negotiable — a sticker with a white box looks cheap on a laptop. OCR validation catches garbled text before it goes live. Die-cut shapes that match the mood of the quote make the difference between something forgettable and something someone keeps for years.

Every sticker is 2.5 inches and printed on premium vinyl. They are designed to last — on water bottles, laptops, planners, and wherever else you carry your convictions.

Browse the collection. Something new arrived today.