The Organizational Singularity: AI-Proof Your Company | EP #258

**Salim Ismail** (0:00)
Is there a line in your business, a high margin line of your business, that two guys with open claw could replicate in 60 to 90 days?

**Peter Diamandis** (0:07)
This is something across the board useful for everyone.

**Salim Ismail** (0:11)
When we wrote the exponential organizations book, we didn't realize how prescient it would be. It turned out over 10, 12 years, we were dead on. Now that we see a gigantic AI on the future of intelligence, what does the organization look like? We think we have a pretty interesting viewpoint perspective on that.

**Peter Diamandis** (0:25)
If you don't retool your organization, or don't restart your organization, you will be disrupted because someone doing it is going to just eat your lunch.

**Salim Ismail** (0:34)
The central thing to think about is all of our organizational structures in the past were organized around hierarchy, and now they need to be AI native, a gentic workflow, and that's a totally different model. It needs to be architected around intelligence, not around hierarchy. The next question really becomes, how do you get there?

**Peter Diamandis** (0:53)
Now that's a moonshot, ladies and gentlemen.
I'm about to sit down with my dear brother, Salim Ismail, my moonshot mate, talk about the organizational singularity. This is a conversation that I think is absolutely critical for every company to be looking at. We're in a period of rapid transition, agents, AI, AGI, ASI. It's going to restructure how every company, every industry is being run, not in five or ten years, in the next one year, in the next two years at most. Salim is going to lay out his process that every company can follow to move from the old way of doing business as an organization which is sort of top-down heavy, human-centric to a digital, AI-centric, AI-native company. Please take a look at this. This is about your survival. It's about your thriving. It's happening. And you're either on the evolutionary tree or you're going extinct. It's that simple. All right, let's jump in. Everybody, welcome to Moonshots. A special episode with my dear brother from another mother, Salim Ismail.
You're finally here. You're in our Moonshots studio. You made it.

**Salim Ismail** (2:04)
First time. It looks awesome.

**Peter Diamandis** (2:06)
Yeah.

**Salim Ismail** (2:06)
And I love everything about it.

**Peter Diamandis** (2:08)
And today is a special day. It's your birthday.

**Salim Ismail** (2:11)
It is my birthday.

**Peter Diamandis** (2:11)
Yes. And so, for those who don't know, Salim has just turned 16
It's his sweet 16th birthday. And we're here to celebrate.

**Salim Ismail** (2:19)
With digits around, you're a little more accurate.

**Peter Diamandis** (2:20)
Okay, that's right. The dyslexia in me hits it. So, we're going to talk about something that we've been teasing on the Moonshots podcast for a while, something that I'm excited about, which you call the Organizational Singularity.
And I want to make sure that everyone listening realizes this is something across the board useful for everyone, right? It's not if you're the CEO of a large Fortune 500 company, though it's useful if you are. If you're an entrepreneur, if you're in a small company, if you're a parent trying to advise your kid where to go work.

**Salim Ismail** (2:53)
Exactly. Look, when we wrote the exponential organizations book, we didn't realize how prescient it would be. It turned out over 10, 12 years, we were dead on. And so we're kind of saying, okay, now that we see a gigantic eye on the future of intelligence, what does the organization look like? And so we have taken a crack at that with the help of my entire community, all pitched in for this. So we think we have a pretty interesting viewpoint and perspective on that.

**Peter Diamandis** (3:18)
And you've been saying for a bit now that AI has killed the modern company. Yes. The Fortune 500s out there, but I don't think they've gotten the memo yet.

**Salim Ismail** (3:27)
They don't because there's a drag that goes effect, right? When the comet hit, the dinosaurs didn't go overnight. It took a few generations for them to die out and figure out what the hell's going on. This is the same type of model.

**Peter Diamandis** (3:39)
All right. Well, let's dive in. And I want to make sure that folks get where things are going to go.
And again, how do you surf on top of this massive change that's coming?

**Salim Ismail** (3:53)
I think the key part of this is what do you do once you understand that everything has changed? So let me go through what does change, right? So we have, for 100 years, run organizations on a particular 30-set coined by Ronald Coase in 1937