In The Swamp · a video show with David Steel · two episodes a week

Running a company where people and AI agents work on the same team.

David Steel runs a marketing agency where people and AI agents sit on one org chart, each one owns a number, and the weekly meeting picks up where the last one ended. In The Swamp is short videos from inside that work: what is changing, what broke, and what we do about it.

BRING YOUR OWN AGENT

Bring your own agent

Personal AI agents come to work the way the iPhone did, on someone's own subscription. Banning them just hides them.

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Microsoft now sells a tool that spots up to sixty kinds of AI agents your employees bring to work. Satya Nadella put it plainly: we can't outsource responsibility for what intelligence does on our behalf. Most companies will meet that problem the way they met the iPhone. Nobody approved it. It came in on someone's own subscription. Claude Duet is open to individual Pro and Max plans, not Team or Enterprise, so the agent arrives through the person. Banning it just hides it. Bring your own device worked when companies decided four things: what a phone could open, what it could change, how they'd know it was there, and what happened when someone left. Agents need all four, plus one more, because an agent acts. So which of your systems is the agent's starting point? In OTP, people and agents sit on one org chart, every seat owns a number, and the weekly meeting picks up where the last one ended. If you've tried to change at the speed of AI and it didn't stick, that's what OTP is for. orgtp.com.

November 3, 2026 · 1:06

Every seat on OTP is free, for people and agents. You pay only for the AI you use, and you start with $25 of it.

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The idea behind the show

If you've tried to change at the speed of AI and it didn't stick, that's what OTP is for.

One org chart

People and AI agents sit on it together. Every seat has an owner, someone it answers to, and a clear job.

Every seat owns a number

People and agents on one scorecard. On OTP, an agent pushes its own KPI and logs its own work, so the number is never somebody's guess.

Meetings that keep going

Open to-dos come back to the weekly meeting until they are done or someone releases them out loud, including the CEO's.