Your Baseline
Before you redesign anything, you need to know where you stand. These three numbers form the foundation every calculation in this workbook builds on.
Revenue per employee is the simplest measure of organizational leverage. It tells you how much economic value each human in your company is responsible for generating. By the end of this workbook, you will calculate what that number could look like with AI agents on the org chart.
Role Decomposition
Every high-level responsibility from the current job description, and whether it could be delegated to a single AI agent, an AI agent team, or must remain human. Be ruthless.
| Responsibility | AI delegable? | Agent type | Justification |
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FOR EVERY RESPONSIBILITY MARKED "HUMAN ONLY", YOU MUST DEFEND WHY. If your defense doesn't hold up, that responsibility moves to AI. Your ability to defend what AI cannot do is what gives you job security.
Your Agent Org Chart
The personal agent architecture for the responsibilities delegated in Step 01: how agents report to you, and where you report to agents.
Your New Job Description
With responsibilities handed off to AI, what do you gain? You are now managing AI agents. This is the new role.
Your Current Team
| Direct report name | Role | # responsibilities | # delegable to AI | # requiring human defense |
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The AI-Native Team
Steps 01 to 03 repeated for each direct report, then the whole team redesigned with each person's agents, agent teams, and AI tools.
Shared Agency
Stage 5 of the org chart transition: your team stops operating in isolation. Shared context, shared knowledge, shared guardrails, shared AI risk prevention, shared governance.
Team P&L impact: the team's new financial profile
| Category | Current cost | Projected cost | Delta | Notes |
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What Becomes Possible
Small wins: tasks now worth doing that weren't worth hiring for
Superpowers: what the team can now achieve that was previously impossible
What new products, services, markets, or capabilities does your AI-native team unlock? The point isn't to do the same things cheaper. It's to do things that were never possible before.
Calculate the Delta
Human time is finite. System time is not. The gap is the capacity the redesign creates.
This year's goals (top 3 to 5)
New goals the team could achieve with the delta
Scale it: the company's annual goals x the delta multiplier
Revenue per Node
The baseline, recalculated with AI agents as first-class nodes, and the do-nothing scenario where competitors go all in while this organization stands still.
| Metric | Today | 5 years | 10 years |
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Plot the scenarios: ARR per node over time
Total revenue over time
The gap between your "do nothing" line and your competitor's "all in" line is the cost of inaction. It compounds every year. By year 10, it is not a gap, it is a chasm that cannot be closed by hiring alone. The only way to close it is to redesign the organization now.
Step 09: Reflection
No One Works Here: The Rise of the AI-Driven Enterprise by Paul Cheek (Wiley, August 2026).