The New AI Org Chart
The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
Nathaniel Whittemore
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🗓️ 12 April 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Jack Dorsey and Sequoia's Roelof Botha published a sweeping essay arguing that AI can replace the information-routing function of hierarchy itself — and Block is betting the company on it. Today we read through their vision for the "company as intelligence," then compare it to the messy, bottom-up reality emerging at Every, where agents are already forming a shadow org chart.
Essay: https://block.xyz/inside/from-hierarchy-to-intelligence
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| 0:00.0 | You know that with agents in AI, everything inside the enterprise is changing, and today we are talking about the new AI org chart. |
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| 0:38.6 | You can find out all about all the different things going on in our ecosystem. First, we are about |
| 0:43.9 | to close registration for cohort two of Enterprise Claw. If you want your company to know how to build |
| 0:49.4 | agents and agent teams, this program could be really interesting for you. It's led by Newfar Gaspar, |
| 0:54.7 | who is a frequent guest and contributor on the show. Secondly, we are about to close the March |
| 0:59.2 | AI Usage Pulse Survey, but I'm always interested in getting more perspectives in. So if you |
| 1:03.1 | would take a couple minutes, go fill that out and let us know how your AI usage changed |
| 1:07.4 | over the last month. Now, today we are doing a classic long reads episode that will actually start with a read. |
| 1:16.1 | The theme is one that I think is super interesting, and I'm constantly keeping an eye on, |
| 1:19.9 | which is the way that AI, and specifically agents, are changing the org chart. |
| 1:25.2 | The idea is that AI is not just impacting the way that individuals do |
| 1:29.3 | their work. It's impacting the way that work gets done overall that changes the fundamental |
| 1:33.7 | shape and structure of the organization. Now, we're going to look at one big essay about this |
| 1:38.9 | theme, and then some interesting anecdotes from inside a company that is at the forefront of this, |
| 1:43.4 | and the essay that we |
| 1:44.5 | start with comes from Jack Dorsey, who of course recently made news with the 40% layoffs at Block. |
| 1:51.2 | The piece was released about a week ago on Block's webpage and was actually co-authored by Jack |
| 1:56.1 | and Sequoia partner, Roloff Botha. The piece reads, at Sequoia, we see that speed is the best predictor |
| 2:01.6 | of startup success. Most companies are focused on AI as a productivity enhancer. Few are focused on |
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