Starting an automated business for some friends as a gift

Cool story. It reminded me of the automated businesses created by Manfred MacX in Accelerando by Charles Stross. Great book with some thought provoking ideas like the ethical conundrums once we can swap bodies and consciousness, the issues with fully automated businesses (book was pre-DAO), and exploring the stars by sending digital copies of ourselves in small starwhisp ships that aren't much more that memory and a digital VR system.