Foreword
By Henry Ford III, Member of the Board of Directors, Ford Motor Company.
Chapter index
23 chapters. One operating system for the AI-driven enterprise.
Every chapter includes a workbook, discussion guide, and framework download.
Front matter
Part I
The Threat
Part II
The Changing Landscape
The Node Architecture
Carbon Nodes vs. Silicon Nodes. The new org chart that determines survival.
The Architect and the Moat
Your moat is now the system you design, not the people you hire. From Captain to Architect.
Business Models and Changing Buying Behavior
New revenue architectures for the agent economy. Zero-Person Company (ZPC) economics.
The Dial-up Era of AI
We are in the dial-up era. The broadband era is coming faster than you think.
Part III
The Opportunities
AI-Driven Enterprises: The New Model of Growth
The AIDE Growth Curves. Every AI-Driven Enterprise follows this path.
Everywhere in Every Organization
AIDE is not a tech company phenomenon. It is every industry, every geography.
The New Age Organization Chart
What your organizational chart looks like in 2030. The Chief Node Officer.
Speed of Creation: The Entrepreneur's New Superpower
Creation at System Time velocity. The v0 Rule and the 30-Minute Startup.
Development Versus Distribution: The New Bottleneck
Building vs. scaling in the AIDE world. Agent Experience (AX) as the new UX.
The Rate of Entrepreneurial Experiments
Compete on experimentation velocity. The Velocity-Variance Framework.
Deep Tech, Medtech, and Pharma: A Different Timeline
Where AIDE meets the physical world. Regulatory latency as competitive advantage.
The AI-Augmented SME
Small and mid-size enterprises enter the arena with Silicon Payroll leverage.
AI and Private Equity: The Next Frontier
Cognitive Arbitrage replaces financial engineering as the primary PE value driver.
Venture Capital in an Age of AIDEs
Venture capital when companies have zero employees. New diligence frameworks.
Economic Development and the Global Race
What AIDE means for cities, regions, and nations. Parallel Entrepreneurship at scale.
Part IV
The Actions
Corporate Governance and Leadership: The AIDE Institute Research Findings
Board duties in the age of autonomous systems. The AI Governance Gap.
Mapping the Organization: AIDE Matrix and Risk Asymmetry
Map your organization against the AIDE Maturity Cycle. Risk Asymmetry framework.
Dear C-Suite
A direct letter to the people who need to act now. No more faking it.
WTF Do I Do with AI?
The question every leader is asking. Here is the tactical answer — starting Monday.
Start with You
Personal AI transformation before organizational. The Tinker Time protocol.
Take a Day for Tinker Time
The Sunday Afternoon Strategy that changes your organization's relationship to AI forever.
Back matter
About Paul Cheek
Paul Cheek is a global expert on AI-driven enterprises and enterprise innovation. He is a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Senior Advisor for Entrepreneurship & Artificial Intelligence at the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship. As founder of the AI-Driven Enterprise Institute and Entonomy, he develops data systems and software that power AI agent-run businesses. A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, bestselling author of Disciplined Entrepreneurship: Startup Tactics, and recipient of MIT’s Monosson Prize for impact on entrepreneurship education, Paul has advised and built ventures from seed to scale, with his work featured in The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and Forbes.
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