The New AI Org Chart

You know that with agents in AI, everything inside the enterprise is changing. And today, we are talking about the new AI org chart. The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI. Alright, friends. Quick announcements before we dive in. First of all, thank you to today's sponsors, Blitsy, ZenCoder, Drata, and Superintelligent. To get an ad free version of the show, go to patreon.com/aidailybrief, or you can subscribe on Apple Podcasts. If you are interested in sponsoring the show, send us a note at sponsors@aidailybrief.ai. And while you are at aidailybrief.ai, you can find out all about all the different things going on in our ecosystem. First, we are about to close registration for cohort two of Enterprise Claw. If you want your company to know how to build agents and agent teams, this program could be really interesting for you. It's led by Nufar Gaspar, who is a frequent guest and contributor on the show. Secondly, we are about to close the March AI usage pulse survey, but I'm always interested in getting more perspectives in. So if you would take couple minutes, go fill that out and let us know how your AI usage changed over the last month. Now today, we are doing a classic long reads episode that will actually start with a read. The theme is one that I think is super interesting and I'm constantly keeping an eye on, which is the way that AI and specifically agents are changing the org chart. The idea is that AI is not just impacting the way that individuals do their work. It's impacting the way that work gets done overall that changes the fundamental shape and structure of the organization. Now we're going to look at one big essay about this theme and then some interesting anecdotes from inside a company that is at the forefront of this, and the essay that we start with comes from Jack Dorsey, who, of course, recently made news with the 40% layoffs at Block. The piece was released about a week ago on Block's web page and was actually co authored by Jack and Sequoia partner, Roloff Botha. The piece reads, at Sequoia, we see that speed is the best predictor of startup success. Most companies are focused on AI as a productivity enhancer. Few are focused on the potential of AI to change how we work together. Locke is showing what it looks like to fundamentally rethink organization design, ultimately harnessing AI to increase speed as a compounding competitive advantage. Two thousand years before the first corporate org chart, the Roman army solved a problem that every large organization still faces: how do you coordinate thousands of people across vast distances with limited communication? Their answer was a nested hierarchy with a consistent span of control at every level. The smallest unit was the Contubernium, eight soldiers who shared a tent, equipment, and a mule led …