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One Hundred-Year-Old Cheese Was Bankrupt; the AI Agents Arrived and Turned It Into a Buoyant Business.

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That a century-old company is on the verge of bankruptcy is not news in 2026. That it was saved by a guy with a sabbatical year armed with AI agents, yes. Petaluma Creamery had been making cheese in California for a century. At its best it billed 50 million dollars, but the pandemic, the health of the owner and the loss of Chipotle as a customer left it with thirteen customers and the order papers stacked on a table. What came after is one of th…
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Petaluma Creamery, an artisan cheese factory in California with more than a century of history, was about to close in 2020. Today, with 300 active customers and a goal of billing $10 million in 2027, its salvation has not been an investor or a subsidy: it has been a system of artificial intelligence agents that completely reconstructed its business, logistics and production processes. Keys of the operation Digitization from zero of a century-old…

That a century-old company is on the verge of bankruptcy is not news in 2026. That it was saved by a guy with a sabbatical year armed with AI agents, yes. Petaluma Creamery had been making cheese in California for a century. At its best it billed 50 million dollars, but the pandemic, the health of the owner and the loss of Chipotle as a customer left it with thirteen customers and the order papers stacked on a table. What came after is one of th…

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Qué! broke the news on Saturday, June 20, 2026.
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