Development Intern

de Anda Capital is a principal-led firm operating across private equity, venture capital, and search fund structures. The Development Intern will build AI agents within de Anda Labs to automate repeatable internal processes and eventually deliver products to clients. The role includes defining problems, building and testing agents, documenting workflows, maintaining the development queue, and handing off completed work.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in first-principles sessions with the team, in which an existing standard operating procedure is decomposed into its individual steps and the steps that an agent can own are identified and agreed on
• Write the product requirements document for each agent before building it, covering the problem, the user, the inputs and outputs, the failure modes, and the definition of done. A short and honest document is worth more to us than a long and aspirational one
• Build the agent, using Claude Code, Codex, and whichever of the mainstream agent and vibe-coding tools fits the job, and connect it to the systems the firm already runs on, which currently include Excel, Google Workspace, Framer, Pipedream, and the firm’s CRM
• Test the agent against real work rather than against invented cases, sitting with the analyst or the associate whose process it is meant to absorb and watching where it breaks
• Write the standard operating procedure for the agent once it works, so that someone who has never met the builder can run it, and revise that document when the agent changes
• Maintain the task queue in the Dev Build Master spreadsheet, keeping status, scope, and blockers current, because the queue is how Labs reports to the rest of the firm
• Hand off finished work, which means a short demonstration to the team that will use the agent and a written record of what it does and does not do. On client engagements the same handover is made to the client, and the documentation has to stand on its own because we will not always be in the room when a question comes up