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.

COUNT YOUR AGENTS

Could you count your agents?

Anthropic could count its AI agents. One leadership team thought it ran two and found nine. See them, seat them, meet them.

Read the post that goes with it →
Read the transcript

Anthropic just published a study of its own people. By August, their AI agents were working six times the hours their employees were, and the bottleneck was human attention. Fortune called it botsitting. The part that stopped me: Anthropic could count its agents. Could you count yours? This is a home services company, three locations, about forty people. Their leadership team thought they ran two agents. When they listed everything, they found nine. A follow-up tool a sales rep switched on. A chatbot inside the scheduling software. The bookkeeper's AI. I learned this inside my own company. Four of my agents went quiet, and nothing told me. I found out because I asked. So, three steps. See them. Seat them, with a person who owns each one and one number it has to hit. Then meet them every week with everyone else. Watch: the agent chasing unpaid invoices is slipping, and the meeting just caught it. So tell me: how many AI agents does your company run right now? People and agents on one org chart, every seat owning a number, and a weekly meeting that 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.

October 20, 2026 · 1:20

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.

Episodes · newest first

Every episode

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.