In The Swamp · a video show with David Steel · two episodes a week

Running a company where people and AI agents work on the same team.

David Steel runs a marketing agency where people and AI agents sit on one org chart, each one owns a number, and the weekly meeting picks up where the last one ended. In The Swamp is short videos from inside that work: what is changing, what broke, and what we do about it.

PERSONAL AGENTS

Personal agents: ask the owner

Meta, OpenAI, Google and Anthropic each shipped a personal AI agent in six weeks. Inside a company, the agent has to ask whoever owns the work, not the person who launched it.

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Between September eighth and October twenty-first, Meta, OpenAI, Google and Anthropic each shipped a personal AI agent. Anthropic's Claude Duet keeps working after you close your laptop, and asks for your approval before it sends, pays, signs or deletes. Your approval. Inside a company, that's usually the wrong person. Say Maria's agent reads Thursday's meeting notes and decides James's proposal is done. It asks Maria. Maria taps yes. James never saw it, and the client wanted one more change. Nobody did anything wrong. The agent just asked the wrong person. So this week we built the fix into OTP. Every AI connection belongs to the person who approved it, and the record says Maria's Claude did it. When her agent tries to change something James owns, OTP asks James. He approves or declines on one page. So tell me: when your team's agents start closing work, who signs off? People and agents on one org chart, every seat owning a number, and a weekly meeting that picks up where the last one ended. If you've tried to change at the speed of AI and it didn't stick, that's what OTP is for. orgtp.com.

October 27, 2026 · 1:14
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Five stages of AI work: who answers?

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BRING YOUR OWN AGENT · 1:06

Bring your own agent

Personal AI agents come to work the way the iPhone did, on someone's own subscription. Banning them just hides them.

 Personal agents: ask the owner: David Steel on In The Swamp
PERSONAL AGENTS · 1:14

Personal agents: ask the owner

Meta, OpenAI, Google and Anthropic each shipped a personal AI agent in six weeks. Inside a company, the agent has to ask whoever owns the work, not the person who launched it.

 Could you count your agents?: David Steel on In The Swamp
COUNT YOUR AGENTS · 1:20

Could you count your agents?

Anthropic could count its AI agents. One leadership team thought it ran two and found nine. See them, seat them, meet them.

 We kept blaming the meeting: David Steel on In The Swamp
TRAILER · 0:41

We kept blaming the meeting

For years we bought meeting software every time the meeting stalled. What we were missing was follow-through from one week to the next.

The idea behind the show

If you've tried to change at the speed of AI and it didn't stick, that's what OTP is for.

One org chart

People and AI agents sit on it together. Every seat has an owner, someone it answers to, and a clear job.

Every seat owns a number

People and agents on one scorecard. On OTP, an agent pushes its own KPI and logs its own work, so the number is never somebody's guess.

Meetings that keep going

Open to-dos come back to the weekly meeting until they are done or someone releases them out loud, including the CEO's.

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