Vinay Pasricha Explorer of Emergence
Now Out now The Signal Writing Collapse Building GoodSpace AI
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Collapse or Collapse.

How AI Agents End the Department, the Manager and the Meeting

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Collapse your organisation now, or your organisation will collapse.

Departments existed because no single person could hold every skill a result needs. AI agents have removed that limit. Collapse or Collapse is about what replaces them: one person, the aligner, who owns one result and runs a chain of AI agents, a vector, to deliver it. No department, no manager, no meetings.

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Front cover of Collapse or Collapse by Vinay Pasricha: an aligner stands among glowing AI agents on discs while an organisation chart crumbles behind them.
— About the book

From practice, not theory.

The book draws on how GoodSpace AI already works. It follows a fictional pump maker, Pravaha Pumps, through its own collapse, from departments and managers to aligners and vectors.

Chapter 1 is a memoir: Vinay’s early career at Orange Technology, where the questions in this book first began.

The whole text is here, chapter by chapter, with its 17 pictures, its tables and its notes. Read it in order, or ask the book a question.

Vinay Pasricha · Now on Kindle · About 280 pages · 21 chapters in five parts

The people in chapter 1 are composites and their names are invented; the company and the work were real, and the scenes, the dialogue and the counts are reconstructed from memory, not from records. Pravaha Pumps, in chapters 13 to 18 and again in the Letter, is an invented firm, and its people are invented; its figures are a composite. GoodSpace is real, and where its numbers appear they are the company’s own.

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Vinay Pasricha

Vinay Pasricha is the founder of GoodSpace AI and writes and speaks on AI for business: what changes when software can do the work that departments were built to do. Collapse or Collapse draws on how GoodSpace AI runs today.

For the decisions that come before an agent takes that work — where AI may act, who owns it, and how you know it worked — see how to build an AI strategy.

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Chapters 1 to 3 of Collapse or Collapse, in one note. Your address is used only to send them.

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