Start here
You have the book. Now build the machinery.
Reading the book is the theory. This is the practice. Everything here is free, and everything here is designed to be run rather than admired.
Do these three things
The first thirty minutes.
Take the Playbook
The AI Transformation Playbook pulls the book’s core frameworks into one document you can run against your own organization this week.
Get the playbook→Open your chapter
Every chapter has a workbook, team discussion questions, and the framework diagrams. Start with the chapter that matches the problem in front of you.
Browse the downloads→Sign the Manifesto
The Architect’s Manifesto is at the back of the book. Sign it, post it, and name the first process you are eliminating.
Share your commitment→Or start where it hurts
Four common places to pick up the book.
Chapter 01
Your organization is slow and you cannot say why
The Multi-Layered Latency Stack — where the waiting actually happens, layer by layer.
Chapter 09
You are redrawing the org chart
Six stages from the legacy chart to the New Age one, with the hiring audit that goes with it.
Chapter 19
You need to know where you actually stand
Map your organization against the AIDE Maturity Cycle and the Risk Asymmetry framework.
Chapter 21
You have to do something by Monday
The tactical answer — the ROI of AI and the decisions-and-roadmap workbook.
All 23 chapters are laid out on the book page.
What is in the vault
Everything, and it keeps growing.
Chapter workbooks
Guided exercises to audit your processes and map your next moves.
Discussion guides
Facilitation guides for book clubs, leadership retreats, and team syncs.
Framework diagrams
Every figure in high resolution, cleared for your decks with attribution.
Claude Skills
The book’s frameworks, installed as skills that run inside Claude.
Glossary
Every AIDE-era term, defined in plain language and shareable.
Reader perks
Discount codes for the AI tools and platforms named in the chapters.
Say hello
Tell Paul you are reading.
New workbooks, chapter videos, and course launches go to this list first. It is also how Paul knows who is out there running the frameworks.
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 Bloomberg, CNBC, Forbes, CNN, Inc., Entrepreneur, and more.
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