Who's Driving the AI-Native Organization? A Field Report from Actually Building One
Everyone is writing AI-native organization manifestos right now.
Jack Dorsey published From Hierarchy to Intelligence in March, arguing that corporate hierarchy is a two-thousand-year-old information routing protocol that AI makes obsolete. Ivan Zhao wrote Steam, Steel, and Infinite Minds, framing AI as this era's miracle material — the steel of our gilded age. Both essays are worth your time. Both are also written from the CEO's chair.
I've been running the experiment from a different seat. At my previous company I started pushing the organization toward AI-native ways of working. This year the experiments have accelerated, on every layer I can reach: the development lifecycle, operations, and management itself. This post is the field report — what worked, where the walls are, and the one distinction the manifestos miss.