Augmented Workforce
Diagrams | Matrices | Thinkers
Where will being human add greatest value in the loop?
Software ate the world, AI Beings are Eating Software.
Is the one person billion dollar company really something that should be celebrated? Or it is a sign of cultural collapse?
Culture is the most valuable asset of any organisation
The Tight Five
Build a Team of Masterminds with maximum effectiveness where each member has a strong business engineering base with deep and complimentary subject matter expertise within a specific vertical.
| Title | Roles |
|---|---|
| Customer Success | Culture, Connection, Community |
| Customer Growth | Attention, Attraction and Onboarding |
| Product Engineering | JTBD Interviews, Delivery of Valuable Outcomes |
| Platform Engineering | Enable Product Engineers |
| Supporting Operations | Compliance, Communication, Coordination |
Chemistry
Chemistry is secret ingredient. What if it could be manufactured anywhere, anytime?
| Archetypes | Role |
|---|---|
| The Dreamer | Sees the big picture of how things will be and positioning for success |
| The Engineer | Transforms visions into tangible outcomes through disciplined effort |
| The Realist | Sets priorities to keep the ship afloat and on track |
| The Coach | Onboards talent and identifies potential for people to grow |
| The Storyteller | Combines diverse ideas, perspectives, to create alignment of path to success |
Agility
How does AI Coding impact agile practices?
See shaping up for product management and planning. Focus on two roles primary, customers and engineers.
Build Teamwork
Culture is any organisation's most valuable asset.
- The competitive advantage comes from shipping ideas quickly and aggressively
- Everyone must be aligned in what success looks like to ship valuable products faster
- Managers must lead with actions by shipping quality producing code
- Managers serve the team rather than the other way around
- Simplify titles as specialization is a barrier to progress
- Invest in teamwork, teams that play together stick together
- Appraisals and coaching must be separated in manager-less teams
- Coaching should come from mentors outside the feature team
Evolve Understanding
Earn confidence by designing systems that capture wisdom as they scale.
- Ask dumb questions. Ask a minimum number of "dumb" questions every day when you join a new team. It surfaces important issues others were too scared to ask about.
- Learn git really well and don't learn a codebase through the code tab, start in the PR tab to see what is changing and why.
- Build it, deploy it, then make it useful. Deploy code as soon as you make it before building out all the features. It makes debugging and learning much easier.
- Aim for simplicity, simple architectures and designs tend to scale surprisingly well compared to starting with complex ones.
- Interview a lot, you need to know your true market value by interviewing elsewhere frequently.
Social
Activities that build combination and connection.
- Rugby: The Tight Five equals provide Engine Room and Platform for attack.
- Music: Chemistry The Beatles + George Martin
Growth Decisions eventually be run via a Futarchy Governance Model that rewards valuable contributions.
Business Engineers
Each team member must have a deep understanding of how businesses generates profit with the technical skills to optimize workflows. They can independently identify opportunities for improvement and then leverage technology, including AI and blockchain solutions, to implement those improvements. They also must be able to sell these improvements internally or externally.
- Connect and Sell Ideas: Capable of communicating the value of technical improvements and "selling" them to stakeholders.
- Profitability: First principles understanding of what creates revenue and costs involved
- Technical Proficiency: Right tools for the right job to achieve maximum leverage.
- Workflow Optimization: Can analyze existing processes and identify bottlenecks or inefficiencies.
- Systems Integration: Possesses the ability to create and implement technical solutions, whether it's coding, configuring systems, or integrating different tools.
Product (Outer Loop)
These engineers focus on building user-facing products and features on top of the crypto rails platform. Their responsibilities include:
- Agent Development: Build Agents to interface with customer to solve their problems.
- AI Integration: Employ AI to personalize user experiences, automate tasks within applications, and provide intelligent insights to users.
- Application Development: Building and maintaining applications that utilize the crypto rails platform, such as wallets, exchanges, or DeFi applications.
- User Experience: Focusing on creating a smooth and intuitive user experience for the platform's products.
- Smart Contracts: Developing and deploying smart contracts to automate various processes and functionalities.
- Integration: Integrating the platform with other services and applications in the crypto ecosystem.
Platform (Inner Loop)
These engineers focus on the underlying infrastructure and core systems that support the crypto rails business. Their responsibilities include:
- Security: Implementing and maintaining security measures to protect the platform from attacks and vulnerabilities.
- AI Agent Platform: For building internal and customer facing AI Agents to optimize workflows.
- AI Agent Workflows: Utilize AI to analyze network performance, predict potential issues, and automate infrastructure management tasks.
- Blockchain Infrastructure: Designing, implementing, and maintaining the core blockchain infrastructure, potentially working with different protocols and consensus mechanisms.
- Scalability & Performance: Ensuring the platform can handle increasing transaction volumes and user traffic.
- APIs and Core Services: Building and maintaining the APIs and core services that other applications and developers rely on.
- Protocol Engineering: Working on the underlying protocols that govern the blockchain network.
- DePIN Engineering: Implementing decentralized physical infrastructure network solutions.
Augmented Team
Structure around four functional leaders where direction is set by bets.
| CORE ROLES | JOB SPEC | AGENT POTENTIAL | PROGRESS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business Engineering | ?/5 | ?/5 | ?/5 |
| - Growth Strategy | ?/5 | ?/5 | ?/5 |
| - AI and Systems | ?/5 | ?/5 | ?/5 |
| Revenue - Point of Difference | - | - | - |
| - Sales | ?/5 | ?/5 | ?/5 |
| - Marketing | ?/5 | ?/5 | ?/5 |
| - Commercial | ?/5 | ?/5 | ?/5 |
| - Human Resources | ?/5 | ?/5 | ?/5 |
| Operations | - | - | - |
| - Management | ?/5 | ?/5 | ?/5 |
| - Finance | ?/5 | ?/5 | ?/5 |
| - Legal | ?/5 | ?/5 | ?/5 |
| - Risk Management | ?/5 | ?/5 | ?/5 |
| Technical | - | - | - |
| - Technology Officer CTO | ?/5 | ?/5 | ?/5 |
| - Information Systems CIO | ?/5 | ?/5 | ?/5 |
| - Information Security | ?/5 | ?/5 | ?/5 |
| Platform Engineering | - | - | - |
| - Data Engineer | ?/5 | ?/5 | ?/5 |
| - Protocol Engineer | ?/5 | ?/5 | ?/5 |
| - DePIN Engineer | ?/5 | ?/5 | ?/5 |
Who do you need on your team?
Jobs by AI Tools
Use Jobs to be Done analysis to establish where better tools can eliminate waste and maximize opportunities.
| JTBD | Products |
|---|---|
| Business Analyst | holistics, metabase, preset |
| Community Manager | tribe.so, circle.so, mighty networks |
| Copywriter | jenni.ai, copy.ai, anyword |
| Customer Success | intercom, front, chatdesk |
| Data Scientist | obviously.ai, h2o.ai, datarobot, bigml, rapidminer |
| Email Marketer | beehiiv, substack, convertkit |
| Faceless video producer | revid, pictory, vidyo.ai |
| Financial Analyst | finta, runway, pulse |
| Growth hacker | mutinyha, growthbook, voyantis, phlanx, viral-loops |
| Idea Machine | gummysearch, treendly, glimpse |
| Lead Magnet | gamma.io, mailerlite, systeme.io |
| Legal Assistant | donotpay, lawdepot, wonder.legal, spellbook |
| Market Researcher | exploding topics, trendhunter, sparktoro |
| Marketing Strategist | semrush, ahrefs, moz |
| Product Manager | productboard, aha, airfocus |
| Project Manager | clickup, notion, coda, linear |
| Product Validator | validately, userfeed, prelaunchhero |
| Pitch Deck Creator | beautiful.ai, gamma, pitch.com |
| Podcast producer | synthesia, riverside, descript |
| Process Engineering | |
| Recruiter | dover, fetcher, gem |
| Programmer | cursor.ai, replit, claude 3.5 |
| Public Relations | prezly, onepitch, prowly |
| Sales Flow | apollo.io, outreach, gong |
| SEO Specialist | surfer, clearscope, marketmuse |
| Social Media Manager | zaap.ai |
| Startup Founder | stripe, producthunt, angellist |
| Supply-chain Management | |
| UX Designer | v0, playground, galileo ai |
| UX Researcher | maze, hotjar, usertesting |
| Video Producer | runway, descript, veed |
| Venture Capital | crunchbase, pitchbook, cb insights |
Context
- AI Beings: Develop AI Beings
- Capabilities: What humans skills compliment working with AI?
- Snowball Effect: Combination of Assets, Tools and Know-How
- SaaS Toolkit: Traditional SaaS is Dead