Automedon · The operating system in the novel
Stage 3: AI tools for everyone, no shared method
Staff have licensed tools like ChatGPT, Copilot, or a vendor platform, but each team uses them differently and results vary from desk to desk.
In the book: The rented vendor detour
The floor
A vendor or platform gives everyone licensed AI tools. They are genuinely powerful, but they are not a system: each desk improvises its own approach, error rates vary from desk to desk, and nobody watches the usage bill.
What forces the next stage
Realizing you bought access, not a method, and could have built on the AI models directly.
The next moves
- Write your company’s judgment down as plain-language playbooks that run the same way every time, even at 3 a.m.
- Set up a small AI service you control: your own API keys, your prompts in version control, your own logs.
- Standardize how each desk does the work. Consistency is what reveals the real process problems underneath.
- Use vendors for commodity tasks. Stop paying rent on your own expertise.