May Habib, Co-founder and CEO of Radical Ventures portfolio company Writer, writes about the profound impact agentic AI will have on the resources required to run future enterprises and how businesses should prepare for a future where AI is doing most of the work.
As production-grade agentic AI transitions from concept to cornerstone, it is creating a seismic shift in organizational potential. Once you have even a handful of production-grade agentic AI apps running, it’s very easy to see how you’ll be able to run your company on ±10% of your present headcount.
Two implications:
(1) What the companies that are investing will do is figure out all the new work to do with the other 90% of employees — they will grow bigger, build and ship better, and acquire market share faster than ever before in history, and we’re going to see double-digit growth rates in companies that have only grown 3-4% a year for decades.
Generative AI speed is not just for generative AI companies.
But companies have to invest. 5% of your IT budget and no business leaders leaning in to lead from the front isn’t gonna do it.
(2) It also means you need an INCREDIBLE amount of scaffolding you don’t have yet to manage all the work that AI is doing — all the:
- building
- testing
- observing
- auditing
- scaling
- inspecting
- improving.
In the case of the work that is current processes just re-architected, where you have data and know-how on what you need done, that’s pretty straightforward.
But for the work you are inventing — where there is no precedent — it’s going to challenge so many orgs so hard — how vividly can you dream together, and can you execute?
The winners will have earned it.
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