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Preview editions of the Introduction, the first two chapters, and all five appendices, free to download now. Each is replaced by the professionally typeset sample the moment Proxy.Me launches, July 10, 2026.
The diagnosis that opens the book: organizations built around human labor are colliding with the capabilities of AI.
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When the System Stops Moving: organizations rarely slow down because people resist progress. They slow down because the system cannot convert intention into motion.
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Knowledge at Rest: organizations don't struggle because knowledge is scarce. They struggle because knowledge doesn't move to where it's needed.
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Taxonomy of AI Actors: three categories of AI actor every enterprise will encounter, and how each deployment context shapes governance.
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Reasoning and Reach: the two governance domains, what a Proxy thinks and what it can touch.
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Mesh Governance: the mechanism layer for governing topology, federation, and signal flags.
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The Apprentice Lifecycle: Assistant, Understudy, Apprentice, and how governance shifts at each stage.
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Glossary and Quick Reference: the book's full vocabulary, previewed now on the companion page.
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Three categories of AI actor: Embedded, Orchestrated, and Digital Apprentice.
Read Appendix ATwo governance domains: what a Proxy thinks and what it can touch.
Read Appendix BMechanism layer for governing topology, federation, and signal flags.
Read Appendix CAssistant, Understudy, Apprentice: how governance shifts at each stage.
Read Appendix DThe book's full vocabulary, plus a six-line quick reference to the operating model.
Read Appendix ESix essays on the ideas that run through the book: memory, reliability, scale, transformation, apprenticeship, and what comes next. For a perspective built around your executive role, see "Read It Through Your Role" on the homepage.
When your best person leaves, the system forgets. Corporate amnesia is a design failure, and a reversible one.
Read MemorySix Sigma for AI reliability. Poka-yoke, the seven Muda, and defect-rate measurement, translated for fleets of agents.
Read ReliabilityYour individuals are faster. Your organization isn't. Why local gains don't scale to enterprise throughput.
Read ScaleThe operating-model question. Why the teams that move the needle rebuild how work flows, not just which tools it uses.
Read TransformationMaster and apprentice: a 700-year-old answer to a brand-new question. Why apprenticeship beats training, for humans and for AI.
Read ApprenticeshipWhat comes after the AI assistant. The trajectory from today's tools to persistent, mesh-coordinated digital apprentices.
Read What's NextDiscussion questions organized by Part, written for book clubs and internal reading groups working through Proxy.Me together.
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