Essay + instrument · July 2026 · 9 min
AI won’t take your job. It will take your queue.
A working, priced, animated model of an eighty-person IT department — and what actually happens to the machine when you let an AI into it, one role at a time.
Flow lab
Working models you can argue with.
Opinions about AI are in oversupply. The lab holds instruments instead: live, priced simulations of how organisations actually move work — every parameter editable, precisely because every parameter is arguable.
Being the person in the room who has argued with the parameters is rapidly becoming the whole job.
Instrument · July 2026 · Live model
The Sourcing Machine
A firm never chooses make or buy — it runs a mix. Watch what the mix does when AI drops the cost of knowledge work toward the cost of compute.
In the workshop
The Boundary of the Firm
Coase’s question with a dial on it: drop the cost of coordination and watch where the seam between firm and market moves.
The instruments are self-contained and free to use. If what they show you looks like your organisation, start a conversation.