Chris O'Byrne
Author Name: Adam Brotman,Andy Sack
Two years ago, AI was a tool you tried. Today, it is becoming a workforce you manage. The companies that understand the difference are about to pull away from the ones that don't.
In Agents, Inc.: How to Rebuild Your Company in the AI Age, Adam Brotman and Andy Sack, co-authors of AI First, lay out what changes when AI stops being something employees use and starts being something they direct. This is not a book about chatbots or productivity hacks. It is a practical guide to the agentic enterprise: an organization built around digital labor, measured by output per person rather than headcount, and governed for trust at scale.
Inside, you'll find the frameworks leaders need to make the shift, including how to think about agents as a new layer of the workforce, how to redesign roles and teams around them, and how to balance speed with order and aim so adoption doesn't outrun control. Brotman and Sack draw on decades of operating experience at Starbucks, J.Crew, Microsoft, and Techstars, and on their work helping consumer brands deploy AI today.
Look at how this book was made: two people directing a swarm of agents collapsed a 20-month publishing cycle into three. That math does not stop at publishing. Every industry that sells time and expertise, consulting, law, finance, marketing, research,is on the same clock, whether it has noticed yet or not. The leaders who win the next decade are the ones compressing their own timelines before a competitor does it for them.
For CEOs, boards, and the leaders shaping AI strategy, Agents, Inc. is the blueprint for rebuilding the company before the competition does.
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