The Agentic Age

I wrote The Agentic Age because I kept seeing the same pattern across AI implementations and couldn't find language that described it. The story is fictional. The dynamics underneath it aren't. If parts of it felt uncomfortably familiar, that's probably why.

Seeing the pattern, though, is only the beginning. That's where Maren starts, not where she finishes. The harder job is figuring out what you're truly looking at, why it matters, and what to do before the same thing happens again. I've spent the last year and a half trying to make that work visible.

That became Leading AI Implementation Projects.

It's a field guide for change practitioners who are leading AI initiatives and have the sense that traditional change methods no longer explain everything they're seeing. It explores the questions the story leaves unanswered. How does your impact assessment change when some of the work isn't moving to a new process but is leaving people altogether? What do adoption metrics measure once part of the workflow no longer runs through a person? What do your success measures track once adoption no longer means what it used to? And what belongs in a training plan when the human's job shifts from doing the work to catching the cases the system gets wrong?

In many ways, it's the work Maren had to figure out on her own, written down so the next practitioner doesn't have to start from scratch.

If this story gave a name to something you've been noticing but couldn't quite explain, this guide will help you take the next step.

You can find it, along with the rest of our work at OCIA, through the link below.