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.

FIVE STAGES

Five stages of AI work: who answers?

Airtable sorts every company into five stages of working with AI. Before you move up one, ask who answers for what the agent does.

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Airtable put out a guide that sorts every company into five stages of working with AI. Explore, Assist, Delegate, Supervise, Orchestrate. More than half are stuck in the first two. Their best line: the bottleneck isn't the model. It's governance and human accountability. I agree, because we learned it the hard way. At Sneeze It, our agents ran on schedules. In one week they sent nine thousand six hundred emails. One real person replied with a real question, and it sat there, because answering was nobody's job. Then we found nothing had been watching our agents for a hundred and forty-six days. So before you move up a stage, ask one question: when this agent does something, who answers for it? We made a free two-page check. Ten questions. Score it with your team. In OTP, people and AI 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 5, 2026 · 1:08

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.