Field productivity is not the margin problem. Coordination is. AI agents are absorbing the clerical layer of construction coordination, and the GCs who move first keep the margin.
A talent leader put her 2021 recruiter job posting next to this year's version. The annotations show what AI agents took over and what the human job became.
Bias, black boxes, regulators, gaming, and dehumanized hiring. Five serious objections to AI candidate ranking, taken as seriously as the HR director who raised them meant them.
Lewin promised the change would refreeze. AI agent rollouts never do. Why the event model of change management is giving way to a standing organizational function.
An agent can perform work, but it cannot hold accountability. How to map ownership, delegations, and review obligations before the first bad incident instead of after it.
A new engineer keeps a diary of her first month at a company where an onboarding agent runs the checklist. Access sorted before day one, questions never rationed, feedback folded in.
Retros get archived instead of used. An agent that watched the whole campaign writes an evidence-linked record and resurfaces the lesson at the moment of decision.
The governance questions to settle before AI touches hiring: decision gates, written reasoning, owned requirements, candidate disclosure, and a plan for the bad week.
A function by function look at how one solo founder runs support, back office ops, and GTM with AI agents, and the escalation rules that make it safe.
