Automedon · The operating system in the novel
Stage 4: Shared playbooks on a setup you control
AI runs through a service you own, with written procedures and a named owner for each process.
In the book: Standard work on an owned service
The floor
A small service you own calls the AI models directly, and your company’s judgment is written down as playbooks that run the same way every time. Making the work consistent finally shows the real process problems underneath.
What forces the next stage
The bill.
The next moves
- Tag every AI call with its task, the model used, and its cost. Put the costs where people can see them.
- Match models to work: people-paced work to licensed seats, routine volume to cheap models, hard judgment calls to the most capable one.
- Add automatic checks after every AI answer. Totals, dates, and required fields are arithmetic, not judgment.
- Avoid long contracts while AI prices keep falling.