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The org chart your agents need

The AI community is reinventing organizational design from scratch — badly. Agencies figured this out decades ago. Competencies, not clients. Briefs, not prompts. Lateral communication, not hub-and-spoke. The answers are already there.





Most of your infrastructure is decoration

Organizations are full of things that look like governance, strategy, and quality control but are actually decorative. The trigger conditions nobody reads, the dashboards nobody checks, the review processes that rubber-stamp. When you finally audit what’s functional versus ornamental, the ratio is alarming.