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Ch. 01

The Multi-Layered Latency Stack — Workbook

A costed latency audit of one real decision, layer by layer.

9 pages

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Ch. 02

The New Calculus of Scale — Workbook

Your ARR/FTE, your Token-to-Salary Ratio, and a 24-month target for both.

9 pages

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Ch. 03

The Node Architecture — Workbook

A node map of one real team, every Silicon Node named, scoped, and owned.

10 pages

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Ch. 04

The Architect’s Leadership — Workbook

A named owner for every decision that waits on you — and for every one that cannot.

9 pages

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Ch. 05

Kill the Seat, Sell the Delta — Workbook

One offer repriced off the seat, with a unit, a floor, and a pilot account.

10 pages

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Ch. 06

Dial-Up to Broadband Transition — Workbook

A timed friction audit, four dated no-regrets investments, and five trip-wires with watchers.

9 pages

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Ch. 07

The AIDE Growth Architecture — Workbook

A category verdict and a 36-month revenue-per-head model you will defend to a board.

9 pages

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Ch. 08

AIDE Universal Integration — Workbook

A marked sweep of every unit and function you own, with your trust line drawn on it.

9 pages

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Ch. 09

The New Age Organization Chart — Workbook

A staged chart of every function, and one function committed to move.

9 pages

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Ch. 10

The 30-Minute Startup — Workbook

A working v0 at a live URL, built in 30 minutes, and three customers booked to see it.

9 pages

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Ch. 11

Distribution & Retention Strategy — Workbook

A costed CAC, an NRR baseline, an evidenced moat audit, and a documented reallocation.

9 pages

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Ch. 12

Rapid Experimentation — Workbook

A priced experiment portfolio: cost per shot, kill dates, platform exposure.

9 pages

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Ch. 13

Deep Tech & Pharma Acceleration — Workbook

A gate-by-gate compression ledger for one program, costed in months and dollars.

9 pages

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Ch. 14

The AI-Augmented SME — Workbook

Two costed moves — one in operations, one in the product you ship.

9 pages

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Ch. 15

Buying Dumb, Selling Smart — Workbook

A scored target, a dated value-creation plan, and the exit story you will sell.

9 pages

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Ch. 16

Venture Capital in an Age of AIDEs — Workbook

A re-priced cheque size and a thesis paragraph you can send to your LPs.

9 pages

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Ch. 17

AIDE Economic Development — Workbook

A costed Concentration Risk figure and an incentive budget split you can defend in public.

9 pages

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Ch. 18

AIDE Governance — Workbook

A scored literacy ledger for your board and C-suite, and a dated governance charter.

9 pages

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Ch. 19

The AIDE Matrix and Risk Asymmetry — Workbook

Two evidenced scores, one plotted position, and a costed answer to the New Audit Question.

9 pages

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Ch. 20

C-Suite AIDE — Workbook

A rewritten mandate for every officer at the table, initialled and dated.

9 pages

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Ch. 21

The AIDE Opportunities Audit — Workbook

A scored, peer-reviewed roadmap of AI opportunities, ranked by AIDE Score.

10 pages

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Ch. 22

The Personal AI Habit-Builder — Workbook

A week of logged personal experiments and the professional judgements they produced.

8 pages

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Ch. 23

Take a Day for Tinker Time — Workbook

A shipped V1, an hour-by-hour record, and a different sense of what you can do yourself.

9 pages

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Ch. 09

AI Culture & Competency: Hiring Audit

Stress-test one real job posting against the AI-Driven Enterprise, then rewrite it — competency audit framework from Part III.

11 pages

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Ch. 18

AIDE Leadership Reference Guide

Human Time vs. System Time, board/exec/manager/employee competency tiers, governance policy, and a quarterly self-assessment.

5 pages

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Ch. 21

AI Decisions & Roadmap Workbook

Force-rank your competing strategic priorities, build a talent development plan, and turn both into a 12-month quarterly roadmap.

8 pages

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Ch. 22

Personal Role Reevaluation Workbook

Delegate your own responsibilities to AI agents, redesign your role, and recalculate your org’s economics with agents as nodes.

14 pages

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Ch. 09

AI Role Inversion Worksheet

Map which decisions AI should own, which must stay human, and what your team is freed to focus on once AI directs coordination instead of people.

1 page

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About Paul Cheek

Paul Cheek is a global expert on AI-driven enterprises and enterprise innovation. He is a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Senior Advisor for Entrepreneurship & Artificial Intelligence at the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship. As founder of the AI-Driven Enterprise Institute and Entonomy, he develops data systems and software that power AI agent-run businesses. A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, bestselling author of Disciplined Entrepreneurship: Startup Tactics, and recipient of MIT’s Monosson Prize for impact on entrepreneurship education, Paul has advised and built ventures from seed to scale, with his work featured in Bloomberg, CNBC, Forbes, CNN, Inc., Entrepreneur, and more.

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