Oct 13, 2026Blog
Building an Agentic Workflow? Delegate the work. Keep control of what matters.
A team of agents is easy to assemble. A system of work you can trust is considerably harder to design.
Blogs
Essays and shorter notes on agentic work systems.
Oct 9, 2026Blog
Doing the work is not settlement.
An agent may settle the work. It may not grow the authority to do so.
Oct 9, 2026Blog
A world where work can be delegated to AI without surrendering control
Delegated autonomy, retained control: coordination, visibility, and governance when an agent does the work.
Oct 7, 2026Blog
A team of bots is easy. A team you can trust is not.
Agentic work is becoming heterogeneous and distributed. Trust in it comes from the same place as trust in a car that drives itself: operational design.
Oct 6, 2026Blog
What makes an agentic work system run
Six questions define a work system. A realization package is their answers, written for the place the agents run. Here is one, file by file.
Oct 4, 2026Blog
Beyond the Bot: a guide to operating work on Grok Bot and OpenAI Dots
From a job description for an AI agent to a long-running, versioned work system.
Oct 3, 2026Blog
A formation is how people and agents work together
The route says what happens next. A formation says how the people and agents doing the work are organized.
Oct 2, 2026Blog
AI may own a lot more of the work, but accountability and responsibility still rest with you
Twelve things to do before an AI agent acts for you — from finding out what it can reach to deciding what it may do.
Sep 30, 2026Blog
Allocation is not benefit: how to account for work when AI agents join it
Humans contribute labor capacity. Agents contribute digital execution capacity. Knowing who does the work tells you nothing yet about the benefit.
Sep 29, 2026Blog
Six Questions That Are a Constitution for Work
When AI agents are in the mix, make sure you answer these six questions.
Sep 25, 2026Blog
Work is a performance and there is a new arrangement in town.
AI Agents change what individual performers can do. That is not the same as changing the work system.
Sep 22, 2026Blog
Where Agentic AI Transformation Can Go Wrong
Human attention and judgment were expensive, so organizations often turned work into sequences, queues, assignments and handoffs even when the underlying work was more dynamic.
Sep 22, 2026Blog
Work is no longer just a workflow
There is a lot of new vocabulary; the Work System Gallery is where those names map onto a model.
Sep 22, 2026Blog
The way you agentify matters.
Making one task cheaper doesn't necessarily make the whole operation better.
Sep 20, 2026Blog
AI is already everywhere. The business case isn’t.
What comes after the pilot
Sep 12, 2026Blog
When AI agents become abundant, new ways of working become possible
The economics of agentic work formations