We used to ask: “Who can help me get this done?” Now, in the Intelligent Age, the better question is: Which Agent can do this for me?”. This shift isn’t subtle — it’s a complete rethinking of leverage.

In the Industrial Age, leverage was physical.

In the Information Age, leverage was digital.

Now, in the Intelligent Age, leverage is agentic — driven by intelligent systems that think, reason, and act on our behalf.

The book Who Not How gave us a powerful mindset: delegate to others, don’t do it all yourself.

But what if your next “Who” isn’t a person at all?

Enter the Agent Era.

Not virtual assistants. Not basic bots.

But intelligent, task-specific Agents — systems that can analyze, decide, and execute.

This changes everything:

  1. From Headcount to Capability
    You don’t need to hire a 5-person team to scale your startup.
    One founder with the right stack of Agents can go toe-to-toe with companies 10x their size.

  2. Workflow Becomes a Conversation
    Just like you’d brief a colleague, now you prompt an Agent.
    The new managerial skill isn’t task execution — it’s prompt precision.

  3. Infinite Leverage
    Agents don’t sleep, don’t forget, and don’t get distracted.
    They operate in parallel, iterate in real-time, and scale with every new dataset.

  4. The Rise of the Agent Network
    Your edge isn’t just who you know — it’s what you deploy.
    Imagine your own intelligent stack of legal Agents, research Agents, proposal-writing Agents…
    The new power network is hybrid: human and machine.

So what does this mean for builders, operators, founders?

You don’t need to reinvent the wheel.
You need to rethink how it spins.

It’s not about learning how to do more.
It’s about delegating better to smarter systems.

Agentic leverage is the new compounding edge.

The question isn’t “How do I do this?” anymore.
It’s:

“Which Agent should I activate?”

“This isn’t about replacing your human team with bots—it’s about thoughtfully building a hybrid team that fits your organization and enhances your life.”

The book by Dr. Benjamin Hardy and Dan Sullivan had a profound impact on my thinking a few years ago. This weekend, watching Flo Crivello on Greg Isenberg reinforced the above insights and echoed with the theme that Usman Sheikh talks about in his posts.

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