{"id":75432,"date":"2026-09-14T15:36:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T15:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kanboapp.com\/?p=75432"},"modified":"2026-09-14T15:37:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T15:37:46","slug":"kanbo-perspective-the-assistants-assistant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kanboapp.com\/en\/blog\/kanbo-perspective-the-assistants-assistant\/","title":{"rendered":"KanBo Perspective The Assistant\u2019s Assistant"},"content":{"rendered":"<style class=\"wpcode-css-snippet\">@media(min-width:1921px) { .tytulek{font-size:40px!important;max-width: 1200px!important; margin-bottom: 24px!important;letter-spacing:0.36px!important;} .sekcja-tekst { margin-left: 40px!important; margin-right: 40px!important;} .artykul{margin-bottom:80px!important; margin-top:24px!important;} .menu-lewe a:hover { background:#E9F4FE!important; font-weight:600!important; font-size:20px!important; cursor:pointer!important; } .menu-lewe a { background:#FAFAFA; padding:8px 8px; border-radius: 8px; 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line-height:1.2!important;color:#48555E;} .naglowek-duzy-lewo {margin-bottom:16px; margin-top: 8px; font-size:20px; font-weight:600; letter-spacing:0.18px;} <\/style>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section alignfull alignfull getwid-margin-top-none getwid-margin-bottom-none getwid-section-content-full-width\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__wrapper getwid-padding-top-none getwid-padding-bottom-none getwid-padding-left-none getwid-padding-right-none getwid-margin-left-none getwid-margin-right-none\" style=\"min-height:100vh\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__inner-wrapper\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__background-holder\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__background\"><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__foreground\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__content\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__inner-content\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignfull artykul is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-f96e3eba wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column pasek-lewy spis jazda-nowsza is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-564d7317 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"border-left-color:var(--wp--preset--color--pale-cyan-blue);border-left-width:2px;padding-left:5px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"naglowek-start-lewo wp-block-paragraph\">KanBo Perspective <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"naglowek-duzy-lewo wp-block-paragraph\">The Assistant\u2019s Assistant<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column kolumna-tekst is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section sekcja-tekst alignfull getwid-margin-top-none getwid-margin-bottom-none getwid-section-content-full-width\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__wrapper getwid-padding-top-none getwid-padding-bottom-none getwid-padding-left-none getwid-padding-right-none getwid-margin-left-none getwid-margin-right-none\" style=\"min-height:100vh\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__inner-wrapper\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__background-holder\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__background\"><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__foreground\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__content\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__inner-content\">\n<p class=\"naglowek-start wp-block-paragraph\">KanBo Perspective<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading tytulek\" style=\"margin-bottom:40px;font-style:normal;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:-0.34px;line-height:1.2\">The Assistant\u2019s Assistant<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">The person who manages an executive\u2019s attention is about to become the person who manages an agent\u2019s output. It is the first role in the enterprise where AI genuinely works \u2014 and a preview of what most knowledge work is about to feel like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading naglowek-duzy\">The role everyone misreads<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">Almost everything written for Executive Assistants is about calendars. Almost nothing an experienced EA does is about calendars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">The actual product of the role is control over a senior executive\u2019s attention. What reaches them and what does not. What they asked for three weeks ago and whether it arrived. What they promised in a meeting and whether anyone is delivering it. Which of the two hundred things happening across the organization are the four they need to know about today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">Herbert Simon put the underlying economics in a sentence in 1971: a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention. Every organization has been getting richer in information ever since. The role that manages the resulting poverty has been treated as administrative support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">There is a structural weakness in how the job is currently done, and it has nothing to do with the calibre of the people doing it. The executive\u2019s open commitments live in one person\u2019s inbox, notebook and memory. That means every question is a retrieval task, every absence is a risk, and the assistant becomes both the organization\u2019s routing layer and its single point of failure. The better they are at it, the more completely the organization depends on them being at their desk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading naglowek-duzy\">First, the work itself \u2014 no AI required<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">Before any of the AI argument is worth making, it is worth describing what this job looks like when the executive\u2019s commitments are held in a shared record rather than in one person\u2019s head. Everything that follows in this article is an extension of this. Skip it and the agent sounds like a leap; read it and the agent is the obvious next step.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">The description below is of KanBo, which is the work coordination platform we build, adopted at organization level with access and deployment governed centrally. An EA working this way uses it directly, through the interface, in a handful of habits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Commitments become items.<\/strong> Every request that comes out of the executive\u2019s meetings becomes a card \u2014 a work item \u2014 with a named Responsible Person and a real date, in a space, which is the permissioned container a programme or an office runs in. The line \u201cFinance will get us the revised numbers before the board\u201d stops being a note in the EA\u2019s pad and becomes something with an owner that other people can see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Requests arrive as work rather than as messages.<\/strong> A space can be given its own email address, so a request forwarded from Outlook lands as a structured item with an owner and a due date. Nothing is retyped, and the request no longer lives only in the EA\u2019s inbox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>One personal view across everything.<\/strong> The EA\u2019s own space gathers the items they own or watch from every space in the organization. They filter it for what is overdue, what is blocked, and what falls before the executive\u2019s next meeting. This is the replacement for scanning an inbox and hoping nothing was missed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Dependencies and obstacles are recorded, not remembered.<\/strong> Items link to each other across departments, so a commitment owned by procurement can be visibly the thing a board deadline waits on. An obstacle is a named object with a reason and a responsible owner, which turns \u201cwe\u2019re still waiting on Legal\u201d from a recurring complaint into a fact with a person attached.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Documents are connected, not copied.<\/strong> Files reach items through managed connections to the repositories the organization already uses, so the board pack on the item is the board pack in the library rather than a version that started diverging when it was attached.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Confidential work is genuinely separate.<\/strong> A restructuring, an executive search or a transaction runs in a private, closed space, with access granted through six permission levels. It is not hidden by convention; it is invisible to anyone outside it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Recurring events run from templates.<\/strong> Board meetings, offsites, executive onboarding and reporting cycles are set up once as templates carrying their own items, dates and document structure. The eightieth quarter is as complete as the first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>And the executive is given access rather than a report<\/strong>. Instead of a compiled summary, the EA curates a space for them using mirror cards: a mirror card surfaces the live item itself in another space rather than a copy, so there is one truth and many views, and an update by the owner is an update in what the executive sees. Dates can flow into their Outlook as tasks, as appointments, or not at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>And the EA\u2019s reach is not limited to the executive\u2019s own items.<\/strong> Within the permissions they hold, the assistant can see the live state of the programmes the executive sponsors \u2014 not a report about them, the work itself. That changes the first move when something is needed. The question is answered by looking, before anybody is asked anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">That habit has a name worth using, because it is the discipline that makes the whole method work: <strong>increasing engagement.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">Every way of getting an answer costs somebody\u2019s attention, and they are not equally expensive. Reading a card costs nobody anything. Reading its history and documents costs nobody anything. Leaving a comment or mentioning the owner costs them a little, at a time of their choosing. A direct message costs more. A call on Teams interrupts them outright. Convening a meeting takes an hour from everyone in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">The rule is to answer at the lowest level that actually works, and to escalate only when the record is genuinely insufficient \u2014 and then to escalate deliberately, to the one person who can close the gap, with a question sharpened by everything already read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">Most organizations operate the other way around, and not through carelessness. They start near the expensive end because the cheap end holds nothing: there is no record to read, so the first move is always to ask a human. An enormous amount of what an organization experiences as being busy is simply coordination conducted at an unnecessarily high level of engagement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"677\" src=\"https:\/\/kanboapp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/figure-1-increasing-engagement-1024x677.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-75420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kanboapp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/figure-1-increasing-engagement-1024x677.png 1024w, https:\/\/kanboapp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/figure-1-increasing-engagement-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/kanboapp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/figure-1-increasing-engagement-768x507.png 768w, https:\/\/kanboapp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/figure-1-increasing-engagement-1536x1015.png 1536w, https:\/\/kanboapp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/figure-1-increasing-engagement-2048x1353.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">That is the whole method, and it works with no AI involved at all. The EA reads, filters, curates and decides \u2014 by eye, through the interface. It is already a substantial improvement on an inbox and a spreadsheet, because the executive\u2019s commitments now exist outside one person\u2019s memory, and because holidays and handovers stop being events the executive suite braces for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">But notice what the EA is still doing in that picture: sweeping. Opening views, applying filters, scanning eleven programmes for what changed, assembling the position by reading. It is faster and far more reliable than messaging colleagues, and it is still a person\u2019s eyes moving across a structured record, every morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">This is the point at which an agent stops being a leap and becomes an obvious next step. It reads exactly the same record, through a different door \u2014 MCP rather than the interface \u2014 with exactly the same permissions the assistant holds. It is not a new source of knowledge and it learns nothing the EA could not have found by looking. It is a second reader of the same truth, working considerably faster than eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">In the terms above, the agent lives entirely on the cheapest rung. Connected to KanBo over MCP, it reads everything the assistant is entitled to read \u2014 cards, statuses, dates, dependencies, blockers, activity history \u2014 across every space at once, and interrupts nobody in doing it. Which leaves the assistant\u2019s escalations for the cases that genuinely need a person \u2014 and makes those escalations better, because by the time anyone is called, everything knowable from the record is already known.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading naglowek-duzy\">Why the \u201cAI will replace assistants\u201d argument gets it backwards<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">The prediction is common and it is wrong, but not for the comforting reasons usually given.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">It is not wrong because AI is bad at this. An agent is genuinely excellent at the parts of the job that involve gathering, cross-referencing and drafting. Anyone claiming otherwise has not tried it recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">It is wrong because those are not the parts that make an EA valuable. The value is in weighing: knowing that one overdue item is harmless and another, entirely unflagged, will detonate at Thursday\u2019s board meeting. Knowing that this request should go to the executive and that one should be answered without troubling them. Knowing which colleague responds to a direct ask and which needs to be given room. None of that is written anywhere, and most of it is about people rather than tasks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">So the real prediction is close to the opposite. The EA is one of the few roles where an agent can be deployed usefully today \u2014 because the person supervising it already has decades of institutional practice at exactly that supervision. Briefing a fast, capable, contextless helper and checking its work is not a new skill for an assistant. It is the skill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">What changes is the ratio. The collection half of the job, which has always consumed the day, compresses to minutes. The judgement half, which never had enough time, expands to fill the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading naglowek-duzy\">The condition nobody mentions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">There is a condition, and it is the whole game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">An agent can only reason about what is written down. Ask it what is at risk before the board meeting and it needs to know what exists, who owns it, what state it is in, what it depends on and what is blocking it. In most organizations none of that is recorded anywhere a machine can read. It is in email, in chat, in a spreadsheet, and in the EA\u2019s head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">This is why so many assistant pilots stall in exactly this territory. The model is not the limitation. It is being asked to reason about a state of work that was never captured. What comes back is fluent, confident and unverifiable \u2014 which in an executive context is worse than nothing, because checking it costs more than doing the work by hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">The fix is not a better model. It is a record: commitments as items with named owners, real dates, dependencies expressed as links between departments, and obstacles named with someone responsible for them. That is what the working method described above produces \u2014 in KanBo, cards carrying their own owner, status, dates and history, linked to each other across spaces \u2014 and it is the precondition for everything that follows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">Sequence matters here, and most organizations attempt it backwards. Write the state down first. Introduce the agent second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading naglowek-duzy\">Building the agent is now the easy part<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">It is worth being blunt about where the difficulty actually sits in September 2026, because a great deal of enterprise effort is currently going into the wrong half of the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">Building an assistant is no longer hard. Wiring a capable model to a set of tools, giving it instructions and putting a chat box in front of it is an afternoon\u2019s work with widely available components. It has roughly the difficulty of writing a formula into a spreadsheet cell. That is not a criticism of anyone doing it \u2014 it is a statement about how far the commodity layer has moved. Model capability is no longer the constraint on enterprise AI, and treating it as though it were is why so many programmes are stalled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">The scarcity has moved to three places, none of which is the model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Whether the system holds state or prose.<\/strong> An agent pointed at documents and message threads can summarise. An agent pointed at a record of work \u2014 owners, statuses, dates, dependencies, blockers \u2014 can answer operational questions. These are different activities and they are routinely confused. If your systems only hold prose, no model will turn them into answers; it will turn them into confident paraphrase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Whether the system has an identity model that survives a machine consumer. <\/strong>This is the one almost nobody plans for, and it is where most pilots quietly die. Ask what access an agent will have in your existing systems and the honest answer is usually: it gets a service account, and that account has broad rights, because service accounts were designed for overnight batch jobs rather than for something that reasons and acts on a person\u2019s behalf. Bolting an agent onto a system with one all-powerful integration account is not an AI project. It is a privilege-escalation project with a chat interface, and the security function will eventually say so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Whether actions remain attributable to a person.<\/strong> If the agent writes back and the audit trail records \u201cAPI user,\u201d the record has stopped being evidence. Everything downstream \u2014 audit, dispute, regulatory response \u2014 degrades from that point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"659\" src=\"https:\/\/kanboapp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/figure-2-where-the-constraint-is-1024x659.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-75422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kanboapp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/figure-2-where-the-constraint-is-1024x659.png 1024w, https:\/\/kanboapp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/figure-2-where-the-constraint-is-300x193.png 300w, https:\/\/kanboapp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/figure-2-where-the-constraint-is-768x494.png 768w, https:\/\/kanboapp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/figure-2-where-the-constraint-is-1536x989.png 1536w, https:\/\/kanboapp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/figure-2-where-the-constraint-is-2048x1318.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">The underlying problem is simple to state. Most enterprise systems were designed on the assumption that only humans would ever read them, and only humans would ever act in them. Everything about their interfaces, their permissions and their logging follows from that assumption, and none of it survives the arrival of a competent machine consumer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">This is where the KanBo arrangement differs, and it is worth stating precisely because it is the part that makes the earlier sections deployable rather than aspirational. An agent connecting over MCP authenticates through delegated authorization \u2014 OAuth \u2014 as the person on whose behalf it is working. It is not a superuser with a token. It signs in as the assistant and inherits exactly the assistant\u2019s permissions: the same six permission levels, the same group memberships, the same private spaces open and the same ones closed. If the EA cannot see the acquisition space, neither can their agent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">That single design decision resolves most of the objections an enterprise raises. Access is not a policy the agent has been asked to honour; it is a boundary it cannot cross. And when the agent acts, it acts as a delegated identity with a person behind it rather than as an anonymous integration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">The uncomfortable conclusion for anyone evaluating this: the interesting question is no longer \u201ccan we build an agent.\u201d Everyone can build an agent. The question is whether the systems you would point it at were built on the assumption that something other than a human would one day read them. Most were not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading naglowek-duzy\">What the EA can make an agent do<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">The honest answer to \u201cwhat can the agent do\u201d is: whatever the assistant describes to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">That sentence is doing more work than it appears to. It means the capability boundary of this arrangement is not set by a vendor\u2019s roadmap, a release cycle or a development team\u2019s backlog. It is set by the person who actually understands the executive\u2019s world \u2014 and set by them directly, in their own words, on the day they need it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>How that works in practice.<\/strong> The organization approves the AI environment once and connects it to KanBo\u2019s MCP server once: identity, permissions, deployment, the usual governance. That is IT\u2019s job and it happens a single time. After that, the configuration is the assistant\u2019s own. They write instructions in plain language describing what they want prepared and how. They save the ones that work as reusable skill files, so \u201cprepare the Thursday board sweep\u201d or \u201cbuild the pre-meeting pack for a supplier review\u201d becomes something they invoke rather than re-explain. They connect the tools they are permitted to use, and adjust the phrasing when the output is not quite right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">None of that requires a developer. There is no ticket, no scoping conversation, no queue, no six-week wait for something that arrives slightly wrong because the person who built it had never sat outside a chief executive\u2019s office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Why this is the substantial change.<\/strong> For thirty years, the gap between \u201cI know exactly what I need\u201d and \u201cI have it\u201d has been an organizational process. The person with the domain knowledge wrote a requirement; somebody without that knowledge implemented it; the difference between the two was absorbed as frustration. Here the person with the knowledge is also the person who configures it, and the loop between noticing a need and satisfying it closes in minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">This is genuine end-user programming, and it deserves to be recognised as such \u2014 including its obligations. Instructions that work should be kept and versioned rather than retyped from memory. New ones should be checked against a case where you already know the answer. Output should be reviewed periodically for drift, because a set of instructions that was right in March may quietly stop being right in September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>And the boundary that makes it safe. <\/strong>Freedom to configure behaviour is not freedom to expand access. However the assistant instructs their agent, it still runs under a delegated identity with exactly the assistant\u2019s permissions. It can be told to do something new; it cannot be told to see something new. That separation \u2014 behaviour open, access closed \u2014 is what allows this to be handed to a non-technical person in a regulated organization without anyone losing sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What assistants tend to build first.<\/strong> The pattern is consistent enough to be worth listing, as examples rather than as a menu:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The morning sweep.<\/em> What changed since Friday across these eleven programmes. What is blocked and on whom. What is due before Thursday. What is still waiting on him. Which of last month\u2019s commitments has gone quiet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The pre-meeting pack. <\/em>For a given meeting: everything open with the people in it, everything the executive owes them, everything they owe the executive, what was decided last time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Cross-programme pattern-finding.<\/em> Which obstacle recurs across unrelated initiatives. Which department appears as a blocker most often. Which commitments made in January have neither moved nor been cancelled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Drafting.<\/em> The update, the chase, the summary, the agenda \u2014 drafted, not sent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Watching.<\/em> Flagging when something the executive is exposed to changes state, rather than waiting for the weekly cycle to surface it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">Every one of those is collection, correlation or composition. That is where current models are strong and where the work was always mechanical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading naglowek-duzy\">What an agent cannot do<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">The list is shorter and more important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Weighing.<\/strong> Deciding what deserves attention is not a ranking problem with a hidden correct answer. It depends on what the executive is preoccupied with this week, which board member asked the question, and whether the person who is late has been reliable for ten years or is new and struggling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Discretion.<\/strong> Knowing what not to send is at least as valuable as knowing what to send, and an agent optimising for completeness will get this exactly wrong. The instinct to withhold something until Monday because raising it on Friday afternoon achieves nothing is not inferable from the record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Reading the room.<\/strong> Whether the delay is a resourcing problem or a political one. Whether the polite update means it is on track or means the opposite. Whether a chase will produce the document or produce resentment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Owning the outcome.<\/strong> Someone has to be accountable, and it has to be a person. This is not a philosophical preference; it is what makes the arrangement acceptable to a board, an auditor and a works council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading naglowek-duzy\">The line: proposes, decides, confirms<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">Stated as plainly as possible, because this is the part that determines whether the arrangement survives contact with a real organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"555\" src=\"https:\/\/kanboapp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/figure-3-proposes-decides-confirms-1024x555.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-75424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kanboapp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/figure-3-proposes-decides-confirms-1024x555.png 1024w, https:\/\/kanboapp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/figure-3-proposes-decides-confirms-300x163.png 300w, https:\/\/kanboapp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/figure-3-proposes-decides-confirms-768x416.png 768w, https:\/\/kanboapp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/figure-3-proposes-decides-confirms-1536x832.png 1536w, https:\/\/kanboapp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/figure-3-proposes-decides-confirms-2048x1110.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The agent proposes.<\/strong> It reads, correlates and drafts. It produces candidate answers, candidate priorities, candidate messages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The human decides.<\/strong> The EA reviews what came back, applies the judgement above, and determines what reaches the executive. Nothing goes up that the EA has not chosen to send.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A human confirms any action.<\/strong> When work flows the other way \u2014 an agent creating follow-up items, updating a status, sending an update \u2014 a person confirms it before it happens. And the Responsible Person, which is a field on every KanBo card rather than a convention, remains a named human being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">That last point is not a detail. If accountability can be assigned to an agent, the record stops being usable as evidence and the whole structure fails its first audit. Keeping the named human on the item is what makes agent involvement deployable in a regulated organization rather than merely impressive in a demonstration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading naglowek-duzy\">What to delegate, and what never to<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">A practical division, worth agreeing explicitly rather than discovering by accident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/kanboapp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/figure-4-delegate-keep-never-1024x590.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-75426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kanboapp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/figure-4-delegate-keep-never-1024x590.png 1024w, https:\/\/kanboapp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/figure-4-delegate-keep-never-300x173.png 300w, https:\/\/kanboapp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/figure-4-delegate-keep-never-768x442.png 768w, https:\/\/kanboapp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/figure-4-delegate-keep-never-1536x885.png 1536w, https:\/\/kanboapp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/figure-4-delegate-keep-never-2048x1179.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Delegate to the agent:<\/strong> gathering status across programmes; identifying what changed; finding what is blocked and by whom; cross-referencing commitments against dates; assembling pre-meeting context; drafting routine updates, chases and agendas; noticing that something has not moved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Keep with the human:<\/strong> deciding what reaches the executive; deciding what to withhold and when; anything involving a person\u2019s performance or standing; anything confidential by category rather than by content \u2014 personnel matters, transactions, executive search; the final wording of anything that carries the executive\u2019s voice; and every decision about priority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Never delegate:<\/strong> accountability. The agent is an instrument the EA uses. It does not become the responsible party for anything, and the record should never suggest it did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading naglowek-duzy\">The deliverable changes shape<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">Here is the second-order change, and the one most organizations will resist longest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"659\" src=\"https:\/\/kanboapp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/figure-5-brief-versus-access-1024x659.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-75428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kanboapp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/figure-5-brief-versus-access-1024x659.png 1024w, https:\/\/kanboapp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/figure-5-brief-versus-access-300x193.png 300w, https:\/\/kanboapp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/figure-5-brief-versus-access-768x494.png 768w, https:\/\/kanboapp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/figure-5-brief-versus-access-1536x989.png 1536w, https:\/\/kanboapp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/figure-5-brief-versus-access-2048x1318.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">The daily brief, the status email and the Monday catch-up all share a flaw: they are snapshots. Accurate at the moment of writing, degrading from then on, and impossible to interrogate. Every follow-up question routes back through the assistant \u2014 which is exactly the bottleneck the brief was supposed to relieve. The executive asks \u201cand what about the Riyadh contract?\u201d, and the EA goes back to the source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">When the commitments live in a shared record, the brief can change shape entirely. What reaches the executive is a short note on what needs them, alongside curated direct access to the actual items, mirrored into a space of their own \u2014 the live items themselves, not copies. Opening one shows the owner, the dates, the dependency holding it up, the document under discussion and the reasoning that produced the current position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">A summary answers the first question and creates the next three. Direct access answers all four.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">This is a genuine break in habit and should be treated as one. Executives who have been briefed the same way for twenty years do not switch because a vendor suggests it. The practical route is to replace one artefact \u2014 the weekly status email, or the first fifteen minutes of the standing catch-up \u2014 and let the comparison make the argument.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">Drucker\u2019s point in The Effective Executive is the underlying reason to bother. Time, he argued, is the one genuinely scarce and non-substitutable resource, and effective executives begin by finding out where it actually goes rather than where they assume it goes. That is not possible when the only instrument is a document written by somebody else, yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading naglowek-duzy\">What an agent is allowed to see<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">Any serious version of this raises a governance question before it raises an enthusiasm question, and rightly. An executive\u2019s environment contains the most sensitive material in the organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/kanboapp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/figure-6-what-the-agent-can-see-1024x590.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-75430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kanboapp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/figure-6-what-the-agent-can-see-1024x590.png 1024w, https:\/\/kanboapp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/figure-6-what-the-agent-can-see-300x173.png 300w, https:\/\/kanboapp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/figure-6-what-the-agent-can-see-768x442.png 768w, https:\/\/kanboapp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/figure-6-what-the-agent-can-see-1536x885.png 1536w, https:\/\/kanboapp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/figure-6-what-the-agent-can-see-2048x1179.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">The answer has to be structural rather than a policy commitment. In KanBo, an agent connecting over MCP acts under an identity, and that identity is governed by the same permission model that governs people: six levels, grantable to groups, deny by default. A service identity that has not been mapped to a user holds no permissions at all until a role grants them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">The practical consequence is that confidentiality is enforced by the same mechanism for machines as for people. A private, closed space containing a restructuring, an acquisition or an executive search is invisible to an agent that has not been admitted to it \u2014 not because the agent has been instructed to avoid it, but because it cannot see it exists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">That distinction matters more than it might appear. \u201cThe assistant has been told not to look at that\u201d is a control that fails silently. \u201cThe assistant cannot see it\u201d is a control that fails loudly, which is the only kind worth having.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading naglowek-duzy\">Three situations, before and after<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading naglowek-maly\">The executive asks about something from six weeks ago<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Before<\/em>. The EA remembers the conversation, is fairly sure it went to the operations director, and messages two people to find out where it landed. An answer arrives that afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\"><em>After.<\/em> The commitment is a card with a named Responsible Person and a date. Its activity history shows what has happened since, what it is currently waiting on, and who last touched it. It takes seconds, and the EA did not interrupt anyone to produce it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading naglowek-maly\">Preparing for a board meeting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Before.<\/em> Two days of collecting inputs from programme leads, chasing the ones who are late, assembling a pack, and discovering on the morning that one number changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\"><em>After.<\/em> The agent assembles the current position across every relevant programme, flags what changed in the last week and what remains unresolved. The EA reviews it, decides what the board actually needs, and prepares that. The pack is built from live items rather than from fourteen emailed contributions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading naglowek-maly\">The EA takes a week\u2019s holiday<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Before.<\/em> The executive suite braces. Requests queue, context is unavailable, and something usually slips. The EA answers messages from the airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\"><em>After.<\/em> Commitments, owners, dates and history are on the work rather than in one person\u2019s memory. A colleague covering for the week can see the position rather than inherit a mystery. This is the change that matters most to the organization, and the one least often discussed with the person it most benefits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading naglowek-duzy\">The EA as a preview of everyone else\u2019s job<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">Step back and this stops being an article about assistants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">Within a few years most knowledge workers will supervise agents. The pattern will look remarkably like what an EA already does: brief a fast, capable helper that has no context of its own, check what comes back, decide what matters, and take responsibility for the result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">Executive Assistants have been practising this for a century \u2014 with junior staff, with agencies, with vendors, with an entire organization they have no authority over. They are unusually well-prepared for the transition, and they will hit its problems first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">Which makes the role worth watching for reasons beyond itself. The questions being answered at this desk right now \u2014 what to delegate, how to verify, where accountability sits, what an agent may see, what a person must decide \u2014 are the questions every function will be answering shortly. The EA\u2019s version simply has the shortest feedback loop and the least tolerance for error.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading naglowek-duzy\">Honest limits<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The record has to be real.<\/strong> Everything here depends on commitments actually being captured as cards with named owners and dates, in spaces the relevant people genuinely work in. Where teams do not work that way, the agent has nothing to read, and it will produce confident output from a partial record \u2014 which is more dangerous than an empty one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Skills decay when you stop using them. <\/strong>Lisanne Bainbridge described this in 1983 as the irony of automation: automating the routine parts of a task leaves the human with only the difficult parts, while removing the daily practice that kept them sharp at those parts. An EA who never again sweeps manually may become slower at noticing what the sweep missed. The countermeasure is not to refuse the tool; it is to keep reviewing the raw record periodically rather than only the agent\u2019s summary of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Over-trust arrives quickly.<\/strong> The output reads as authoritative. After a month of it being right, it stops being checked properly. Build in a habit of verifying against the record on a schedule, not only when something feels off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Some executives will not change.<\/strong> A number of them want a document at seven in the morning and will continue to want one. That is a legitimate preference, and the agent still saves most of the time \u2014 the brief is now drafted from the record rather than assembled from colleagues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Confidentiality has edges.<\/strong> Not everything sensitive is neatly contained in a private space. Before the agent is given broad access, someone should walk the actual permission boundaries rather than assume them, and in jurisdictions with works council involvement that conversation belongs at the start rather than after the first report exists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading naglowek-duzy\">How to start<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">One executive, one quarter, three steps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Capture the commitments.<\/strong> Every request that comes out of the executive\u2019s meetings becomes a KanBo card with a named Responsible Person and a date, in a space for that programme or for the executive\u2019s office. Nothing else changes yet. This alone will surface how much was previously held in one person\u2019s memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Add the agent, read-only at first.<\/strong> Let it do the morning sweep and pre-meeting preparation. Keep everything it produces as a draft the EA reviews. Spend a few weeks simply comparing its output against what you already knew \u2014 that is how you learn where it is strong and where it needs correcting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Replace one artefact.<\/strong> The weekly status email, or the first fifteen minutes of the standing catch-up. Substitute a short note on what needs the executive, plus direct access to the items themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">Then apply the only test that matters: how often does anyone still have to ask the EA where something stands?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading naglowek-duzy\">FAQ<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Is this just a chatbot with access to a task list?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">No. A chatbot answers from general knowledge or from documents. This is an agent reading the organization\u2019s live record of work \u2014 current owners, statuses, dates, dependencies and blockers across every space it is permitted to see \u2014 and it acts under an identity whose permissions the organization controls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>We already have Copilot. Isn\u2019t this the same thing?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">They answer different questions, and they work well together. Copilot reasons over documents, email and conversations \u2014 it is excellent at \u201csummarise this thread,\u201d \u201cdraft this note,\u201d \u201cwhat did that report say.\u201d It is reasoning over prose. An agent connected to the work record reasons over state: who owns this, what is it waiting on, what is blocked, what changed since Friday, what is at risk before Thursday. Ask Copilot an operational question and it will summarise what people wrote about the work; ask it of the record and you get the position of the work itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">The two are complementary rather than competing, and in a Microsoft environment they sit side by side in practice: requests forward from Outlook into a space and become items with owners and dates, KanBo dates flow back into Outlook as tasks or appointments, work is discussed in Teams, and group membership comes from Active Directory. The record is the missing input, not a replacement for the assistant you already have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Do we need developers to build the agent?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">No, and that is much of the point. The organization approves and connects the AI environment once \u2014 identity, permissions, deployment. From there the assistant configures the agent themselves in plain language, keeps the instruction sets that work as reusable skills, and adjusts them as needs change. The capability is defined by the person who understands the job rather than by a development queue. What they cannot change is what the agent is allowed to see: behaviour is open to configuration, access is not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Does the executive have to learn a new system?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">No, and the design assumes they will not. The executive maintains nothing. They receive a short note and, when they want detail, open the item itself. Dates can flow into their Outlook as tasks or appointments. The curation is the EA\u2019s work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What happens to the EA role?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">The collection half compresses; the judgement half expands. In organizations that do this well, the number of assistants does not fall \u2014 their scope rises, because the constraint was never headcount, it was hours spent on retrieval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Who is accountable when the agent gets something wrong?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">The person who sent it. That is the point of keeping a human in the loop and keeping a named Responsible Person on every item. An arrangement where accountability can be attributed to an agent is one that will not survive its first serious incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Can we restrict what the agent sees?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">Yes, by the same mechanism that restricts people. Six permission levels, grantable to groups, deny by default, and a service identity with no permissions until a role grants them. A private closed space is invisible to an agent that has not been admitted to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Where does the record actually live?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\">KanBo is adopted at organization level, with access governance and deployment decided centrally \u2014 including on-premises and hybrid arrangements. For a dataset that contains an executive\u2019s commitments and the organization\u2019s internal friction, where it resides is a constraint rather than a preference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tekst-para wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Written by KanBo. We build the work coordination platform described here, so this is an argument we have an interest in. The condition in the third section \u2014 that an agent can only reason about what is written down \u2014 is worth testing against whatever you already have, including us.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column pasek-prawy spis2 jazda-nowsza is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-995f960e wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-right:16px;padding-left:16px\">  \r\n    \r\n<div id=\"wpj-jtoc\" class=\"wpj-jtoc wpj-jtoc--main  --jtoc-the-content --jtoc-theme-basic-light --jtoc-title-align-left --jtoc-toggle-icon --jtoc-toggle-position-right --jtoc-toggle-1 --jtoc-header-as-toggle --jtoc-headings-full-row-clickable --jtoc-has-custom-styles --jtoc-is-unfolded --jtoc-animate --jtoc-align-left\" >\r\n  <!-- TOC -->\r\n        <div class=\"wpj-jtoc--toc wpj-jtoc--toc-inline \" >\r\n                <div class=\"wpj-jtoc--body\">\r\n            <nav class=\"wpj-jtoc--nav\">\r\n        <ol class=\"wpj-jtoc--items\"><li class=\"wpj-jtoc--item --jtoc-h2\">\r\n        <div class=\"wpj-jtoc--item-content --jtoc-h2\" data-depth=\"2\">\r\n                                                <a href=\"#the-role-everyone-misreads\"  title=\"The role everyone misreads\" data-numeration=\"1\">The role everyone misreads<\/a>\r\n                    <\/div><\/li><li class=\"wpj-jtoc--item --jtoc-h2\">\r\n        <div class=\"wpj-jtoc--item-content --jtoc-h2\" data-depth=\"2\">\r\n                                                <a href=\"#first-the-work-itself-no-ai-required\"  title=\"First, the work itself \u2014 no AI required\" data-numeration=\"2\">First, the work itself \u2014 no AI required<\/a>\r\n                    <\/div><\/li><li class=\"wpj-jtoc--item --jtoc-h2\">\r\n        <div class=\"wpj-jtoc--item-content --jtoc-h2\" data-depth=\"2\">\r\n                                                <a href=\"#why-the-ai-will-replace-assistants-argument-gets-it-backwards\"  title=\"Why the \u201cAI will replace assistants\u201d argument gets it backwards\" data-numeration=\"3\">Why the \u201cAI will replace assistants\u201d argument gets it backwards<\/a>\r\n                    <\/div><\/li><li class=\"wpj-jtoc--item --jtoc-h2\">\r\n        <div class=\"wpj-jtoc--item-content --jtoc-h2\" data-depth=\"2\">\r\n                                                <a href=\"#the-condition-nobody-mentions\"  title=\"The condition nobody mentions\" data-numeration=\"4\">The condition nobody mentions<\/a>\r\n                    <\/div><\/li><li class=\"wpj-jtoc--item --jtoc-h2\">\r\n        <div class=\"wpj-jtoc--item-content --jtoc-h2\" data-depth=\"2\">\r\n                                                <a href=\"#building-the-agent-is-now-the-easy-part\"  title=\"Building the agent is now the easy part\" data-numeration=\"5\">Building the agent is now the easy part<\/a>\r\n                    <\/div><\/li><li class=\"wpj-jtoc--item --jtoc-h2\">\r\n        <div class=\"wpj-jtoc--item-content --jtoc-h2\" data-depth=\"2\">\r\n                                                <a href=\"#what-the-ea-can-make-an-agent-do\"  title=\"What the EA can make an agent do\" data-numeration=\"6\">What the EA can make an agent do<\/a>\r\n                    <\/div><\/li><li class=\"wpj-jtoc--item --jtoc-h2\">\r\n        <div class=\"wpj-jtoc--item-content --jtoc-h2\" data-depth=\"2\">\r\n                                                <a href=\"#what-an-agent-cannot-do\"  title=\"What an agent cannot do\" data-numeration=\"7\">What an agent cannot do<\/a>\r\n                    <\/div><\/li><li class=\"wpj-jtoc--item --jtoc-h2\">\r\n        <div class=\"wpj-jtoc--item-content --jtoc-h2\" data-depth=\"2\">\r\n                                                <a href=\"#the-line-proposes-decides-confirms\"  title=\"The line: proposes, decides, confirms\" data-numeration=\"8\">The line: proposes, decides, confirms<\/a>\r\n                    <\/div><\/li><li class=\"wpj-jtoc--item --jtoc-h2\">\r\n        <div class=\"wpj-jtoc--item-content --jtoc-h2\" data-depth=\"2\">\r\n                                                <a href=\"#what-to-delegate-and-what-never-to\"  title=\"What to delegate, and what never to\" data-numeration=\"9\">What to delegate, and what never to<\/a>\r\n                    <\/div><\/li><li class=\"wpj-jtoc--item --jtoc-h2\">\r\n        <div class=\"wpj-jtoc--item-content --jtoc-h2\" data-depth=\"2\">\r\n                                                <a href=\"#the-deliverable-changes-shape\"  title=\"The deliverable changes shape\" data-numeration=\"10\">The deliverable changes shape<\/a>\r\n                    <\/div><\/li><li class=\"wpj-jtoc--item --jtoc-h2\">\r\n        <div class=\"wpj-jtoc--item-content --jtoc-h2\" data-depth=\"2\">\r\n                                                <a href=\"#what-an-agent-is-allowed-to-see\"  title=\"What an agent is allowed to see\" data-numeration=\"11\">What an agent is allowed to see<\/a>\r\n                    <\/div><\/li><li class=\"wpj-jtoc--item --jtoc-h2\">\r\n        <div class=\"wpj-jtoc--item-content --jtoc-h2\" data-depth=\"2\">\r\n                                                <a href=\"#three-situations-before-and-after\"  title=\"Three situations, before and after\" data-numeration=\"12\">Three situations, before and after<\/a>\r\n                    <\/div><\/li><li class=\"wpj-jtoc--item --jtoc-h2\">\r\n        <div class=\"wpj-jtoc--item-content --jtoc-h2\" data-depth=\"2\">\r\n                                                <a href=\"#the-ea-as-a-preview-of-everyone-elses-job\"  title=\"The EA as a preview of everyone else\u2019s job\" data-numeration=\"13\">The EA as a preview of everyone else\u2019s job<\/a>\r\n                    <\/div><\/li><li class=\"wpj-jtoc--item --jtoc-h2\">\r\n        <div 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