Autonomous

A compelling roadmap to building an autonomous business, best positioned to win, using digital labour powered by Agentic and physical AI.

An autonomous business is designed to be AI-first in its strategies and operations to maximise value and minimise time to value. When done right, it will unlock unprecedented speed, scale, and shared success. However, transitioning from one-off AI implementations—where most companies are today—to autonomy will be neither easy nor obvious. Business leaders will need to challenge all the conventions, standard operating procedures, and orthodoxies underpinning businesses designed by humans for humans—which is to say just about all of them!

They will need to build digital labour to non-linearly scale the health, conditioning, and talent of their teams, business, and ecosystem. This enables 24x7x365 continuity and responsiveness, removing blockages and waste that trap or reduce value. Leaders will need to manage the relationships between the two types of intelligent resources: digital and human. Moreover, they will have to design for AI control and teach human leaders to "let go of the steering wheel".

The goal of Autonomous is to further expand the Boundless design principles that have guided the fastest-growing companies in the world. It aims to prepare business leaders, strategists, and designers for success in the AI economy.