The Agent Economy: The Executive Playbook for Building AI Agents, AI Teams, and AI-Native Companies - Couverture souple

Zhao, Casper

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798185457825

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

You are not competing against AI.
You are competing against the person who knows how to build an organization out of it.

Right now, in a warehouse office or a spare bedroom somewhere, a solo operator is running a consulting practice, an investment research shop, or an e-commerce brand with six clients and a revenue run rate of eight hundred thousand dollars. Their headcount is one. Not one team. One person, plus a dozen AI agents that work continuously, remember everything, and never ask for a raise.

You do not know they exist. Your clients do not know they exist. But in 18 months, one of your largest accounts will quietly shift its spend to a firm that cannot be found on LinkedIn and cannot be evaluated using the metrics you have used for thirty years. The client will not say they are switching because of AI. They will say they found a more responsive partner. They will say the quality was comparable at a price that made the decision obvious.

That is how knowledge work gets repriced. Not with headlines. Not with layoff announcements. One transaction at a time, until your margin is gone and you cannot explain why.

Most businesses are using AI wrong. They are treating it as a faster search engine, a better autocomplete, a productivity tool for the same job they were already doing.

A small group of operators is becoming something else entirely: organization designers. The difference is not the model they bought or the platform they subscribed to. The difference is the architecture. The memory systems. The oversight protocols. The coordination layers that turn a collection of prompts into an actual operating company that runs while they sleep.

This book is the manual for that architecture. It is not a guide to prompting. It is not a review of current AI tools that will be obsolete by next quarter. It is a complete framework for designing, building, and running an AI-native organization: one composed of specialized agents with persistent memory, coordinated workflows, calibrated autonomy, and human oversight at exactly the points where oversight matters.

Inside, you will learn:

• The 6 foundational concepts that determine whether your AI stack produces leverage or produces friction: memory, planning, tool use, multi-agent coordination, autonomous execution, and human oversight
• How to map the eight functional agents that replace traditional business roles: the chief executive agent, the chief financial agent, the marketing agent, the sales agent, the research agent, the legal agent, the human resources agent, and the customer service agent
• How to calibrate autonomy by consequence: what your agents can run unsupervised, what requires a checkpoint, and what never leaves a human desk
• How to apply the architecture across eight industries: real estate, accounting, consulting, e-commerce, SaaS, investing, healthcare, and manufacturing
• How to run a company of five hundred agents without drowning in coordination overhead, including the org chart, performance reviews, project management, and the AI equivalent of a staff meeting

If you are a founder, operator, or executive who suspects the organizational model you inherited from the twentieth century is the wrong model for the next ten years, this book is for you. If you are a solo operator who has wondered whether there is a way to compete against firms with ten times your headcount, the answer is yes, and this is the blueprint.

The question is not whether this is happening.
The question is whether you are designing the organization that will operate in the world it is building, or optimizing the organization that will be stranded in the world it is leaving.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798185457825
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 297
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