Does trust scale?
Past 75 people, does a company's way of working hold, or quietly break?
Whose voice is it?
What does an AI owe the people it was built to speak for?
Whose company is it?
When the offer comes, who actually gets to decide?
A company argues for its life.
Ask the Company is a novel about a founder who stops believing his company's way of working can survive, and the company (speaking through its own AI) that argues back. I'm writing it in public.
75 people. Falling engagement. An acquisition offer that pays well and ends everything the handbook says. The founder has heard every argument for a different kind of company: he made most of them himself, years ago, when he still believed.
Now the company gets nineteen nights to change his mind. It speaks for itself: it has read everything, it remembers everything, and it has stopped waiting to be asked.
What you get:
One short chapter most weeks until the book is done (about nineteen in all, each a ten-minute read, each ending where you'd rather it didn't). Now and then, one decision I'm wrestling with as the author: you'll see the book being built. Reply to any email. I read every reply.
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