{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Old School / New Tech","title":"E07: Company-Scale Agentic AI","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/a6f12f9c\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1655,"description":"Company-Scale Agentic AI: Why AI Isn’t Stupid, It’s Blind (and How to Fix It)\nIn this episode of Old School / New Tech, Ran Aroussi explains what “company-scale agentic AI” really requires and why most AI rollouts fail: the model isn’t stupid, it’s blind to how the business actually operates. He shares why he wrote a new executive-focused book, Company-Scale Agentic AI (a free follow-up to Production Grade Agentic AI), and outlines a five-part loop—observe, understand, build, run, compound—built around an always-on “company brain” that absorbs emails, chats, calls, and files to map processes, relationships, and bottlenecks. Ran emphasizes the difference between deterministic automations and true agents, argues for starting with human-gated execution to build trust, and highlights role-based access control via middleware as essential for organization-wide deployments. He also describes a browser “morning brief” workflow that keeps tasks from falling through the cracks and urges teams to adapt AI to existing tools instead of forcing employees to change how they work.\n00:00 Welcome and Topic\n00:29 Why I Wrote It\n02:20 AI Is Blind\n06:45 Building Company Brain\n07:28 The Five Step Loop\n11:15 Automation vs Agents\n13:53 Gated Readiness Dial\n17:01 Role Based Access\n20:58 Morning Brief Extension\n22:34 Meet People Where They Work\n24:57 Loop Recap and Wrap\n\n-----\nOld School / New Tech is produced by VarOps.\nSubscribe to the newsletter – the written version of this show, weekly: varops.com\nRead the books – Company-Scale Agentic AI (for operators and the C-suite) and Production-Grade Agentic AI (for engineers): varops.com/books\nWork with us – VarOps installs resident AI inside mid-market companies. It runs where your work already happens, sees the whole operation, and what it learns belongs to you: varops.com/transform","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/13nrINn33mdG7k8LoP1Ez_oYKpPxbcHmR2r_rrXw8jQ/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS85YTRj/ZGQ0Y2RkZDdmMGY4/NzdjYjgxNjI4OWQ5/YTdkYS5qcGVn.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}