Hi Reader,

Most days now, I don't open anything but AI.

It's where the work happens. I open one window, say what I want, and it reaches across my email platform, my analytics, my search data, and gets it done.

I barely operate software by hand anymore. I ask, and it acts.

Today it's a newsletter being queued up, the sales pipeline reviewed and updated, and preparation for a client onboarding. All of this with a few sentences over an hour. Previously this would have taken much of my day.

This is just me. One leader in one small business in an ocean of leaders and businesses. But it's a snapshot of a much bigger shift that's happening.

For the whole life of computers, using software meant learning where its buttons were. You logged in, clicked through the menus, did your thing, and left. You, your knowledge of the software, and your ability to do what needs to be done were the bottlenecks.

The internet was built on that model. Same thing. Just web apps instead of desktop apps now.

But today, it's different. Now the agents operate it. You say what you want. They go and do it. No more digging through menus and clicking on things. Now you just ask.

It feels odd at first. And a bit uncomfortable. Change is always hard. But it's easy to assign labels to that "hard." It's not comfortable, so we move away from it.

But as strange as it feels, this movement and this future are making work more human, not less.

Think about it: how long has the mouse been the interface of work? 30 to 40 years at most? And keyboard-driven typewriters only have a few decades on that.

Just because we've built software for the hand (buttons, menus, screens), does it mean that's the best way?

Go back before the keyboard and mouse. The oldest (only?) interface we ever had is words. Speaking. Asking.

And now we're getting back to it.

This is the next version of the internet and it's already here.

But most people haven't noticed yet.

Two things are happening at once.

1. Software companies are building for agents. There's a standard for it now, called an MCP— it's a connector built for AI. It allows agents to enter a system, do things, pull things, rearrange, and leave.

2. Teams are building capability. The advantage in this moment is going overwhelmingly to the people who understand this future and how to direct these agents. Learning to own the outcome, but use the agent to execute the steps.

I'm seeing individuals in organizations with 10x the impact because they get this.

And I'm helping organizations put the pieces in place to enable and equip their people to do the same.

The next internet is here

The question isn't whether or not this is the future. That ship has sailed. The question we have to answer: are we prepared? And are your people?

This is already how I work every day. The only thing still up for grabs is whether your team will.

Most leaders I sit with feel the shift but can't name where to start.

That's the work I do: turning "AI is everywhere and I don't know where to begin" into your people directing agents through the workflows that actually run the business.

I help leaders get their AI strategy in place while it's still an edge, working as little as one hour a week inside their team and workflows.

If that's something you could use, let's talk.

Either way, keep building. And let me know how I can help,

-Dan

P.S. A few weeks back I broke down what $160,000 in recovered labor looked like inside one firm— same theme, the agent doing the doing. Here's that one.