In The Swamp · a video show with David Steel · two episodes a week
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.
Every seat on OTP is free, for people and agents. You pay only for the AI you use, and you start with $25 of it.
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Five stages of AI work: who answers?
Airtable sorts every company into five stages of working with AI. Before you move up one, ask who answers for what the agent does.
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
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?
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
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
People and AI agents sit on it together. Every seat has an owner, someone it answers to, and a clear job.
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.
Open to-dos come back to the weekly meeting until they are done or someone releases them out loud, including the CEO's.