Press kit
Media & Press
Everything a journalist, podcast host, or event producer needs.
Press contact
Miranda Ewald
Author bios
Short bio
Paul Cheek is a Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan, founder of the AI-Driven Enterprise Institute, and a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree. His book No One Works Here (Wiley, 2026) is a survival manual for leaders building AI-driven organizations.
Medium bio
Paul Cheek is a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Senior Advisor for Entrepreneurship & AI at the Martin Trust Center. He founded the AI-Driven Enterprise Institute (AIDE Institute) and Entonomy, where he develops the data systems that power AI agent-run businesses. A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree and MIT Monosson Prize recipient, his work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Forbes, and Inc. He is the author of Disciplined Entrepreneurship: Startup Tactics (Wiley, 2024) and No One Works Here (Wiley, 2026).
Long bio
Paul Cheek is a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he teaches in the entrepreneurship programs and advises founders at the intersection of AI and enterprise. He serves as Senior Advisor for Entrepreneurship & Artificial Intelligence at the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship. He founded the AI-Driven Enterprise Institute, a research and advisory organization whose proprietary study of every executive in the S&P 500 forms the empirical backbone of No One Works Here. He also founded Entonomy, a company building the data infrastructure for AI agent-run businesses. A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree and recipient of the MIT Monosson Prize, Paul has been recognized as one of the most influential voices in AI-driven organizational design. His work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Forbes, and Inc. He is the author of Disciplined Entrepreneurship: Startup Tactics (Wiley, 2024) and No One Works Here: How AI-Driven Enterprises Are Dramatically Redefining Business, Leadership, and Competition (Wiley, 2026).
Approved pull quotes
Tagged by audience vertical
"When I say No One Works Here, I do not mean No One Matters Here. I mean no one labors here."
Paul Cheek, No One Works Here
"AI is doing to the brain what the steam engine did to the muscle."
Paul Cheek, No One Works Here
"In the age of AI, the answer is cheap. The question is expensive."
Paul Cheek, No One Works Here
"The risk isn't that AI will replace your people. The risk is that a company using AI will replace your company."
Paul Cheek, No One Works Here
"We must move from being Captains who direct tasks to Architects who design systems."
Paul Cheek, No One Works Here
"Cognitive Arbitrage has replaced financial engineering as the primary PE value driver."
Paul Cheek, No One Works Here
"Carbon assets don't slow AI. Organizational bureaucracy does."
Paul Cheek, No One Works Here
"Regulation is a latency tax you already know how to pay. The Friday Night Test gives you the framework to pay it in System Time."
Paul Cheek, No One Works Here
Pre-approved interview Q&A
Cleared for syndication
Q
Why is this book urgent now?
Because the gap between AI-native operators and the rest of the Fortune 500 is compounding. Every quarter a leadership team waits, the cost of catching up multiplies. This book is the playbook for closing that gap before it becomes uncloseable.
Q
What does "No One Works Here" actually mean?
It does not mean "no one matters here." It means no one labors here. Routine cognitive work — the bulk of what salaried humans do today — moves to AI agents. Humans become architects of the systems, not operators of the workflows.
Q
What is the AIDE Maturity Cycle?
A diagnostic framework that maps any organization to one of five stages of AI-Driven Enterprise maturity. It produces an honest baseline — the foundation for any real transformation roadmap. Chapter 19 walks through the assessment.
Q
Who is this book really for?
Six audiences: founders, board members, investors (PE and VC), heavy-industry operators, regulated-industry executives, and C-Suite generalists. Each gets a dedicated reading path in the introduction.
Q
What is the one thing a CEO should do Monday morning after reading this?
Run the Friday Night Test on three of your operating workflows. If the result is "this would still work if no human showed up Friday night," you have an AIDE candidate. If not, you have an automation roadmap.
Pre-approved syndication excerpts
Three excerpts · 350–400 words each
Chapter 10 — The Speed of Creation
The 30-Minute Startup
Why the unit of company-building has shrunk from a quarter to half an hour, and what that does to the venture capital model.
Introduction — The End of Human Time
The Friday Night Test
A diagnostic for whether a workflow truly runs in System Time — or whether it secretly waits on a human.
Chapter 15 — AI and Private Equity
Cognitive Arbitrage
The mechanism that is replacing financial engineering as the primary value-creation lever in PE.
Headline statistics
Past media coverage
Coverage tracking · live links land as press hits publish
Book Paul
Speaking. Press. Editorial.
Three direct paths to Paul’s team. We respond within one business day.
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.
Read Paul’s full bio →Work with Paul
AI strategy and AI-Driven Enterprise transformation advisory for C-Suite teams, boards, PE firms, and operating companies. Engagements range from board-level AI literacy workshops to multi-month or year-long AIDE transformation sprints.
The weekly newsletter
Stay close to the work.
What Paul is seeing in AIDE strategy, board-level AI, and PE/VC moves. Short. Tactical.