Is Your Company Still Stacking People? The Smart Ones Are Stacking Agents

A new round of corporate elimination has already begun.

This time, what determines survival is no longer capital or scale, but the underlying logic of your organizational design.

In the past, we judged a company’s strength by headcount—how big the team was.

Many owners ran the business with an “add more” mindset: when operations grew complex, they hired; when processes got cumbersome, they added departments.

But in the age of AI, that traditional expansion model has broken down.

Based on how I see the future of business, here’s a new definition of organization:

In tomorrow’s org chart, what we “stack” is no longer people—it’s AI Agents.

Why Can’t We Keep Worshipping the “Human Wave” Tactic?

Why do I say delegating all core business to people is a massive risk?

Because as carbon-based beings, humans face two unbreakable physiological limits when handling complex business coordination:

SlowHuman thinking is slow, and so is action. Faced with massive data and multivariate decisions, the brain freezes.

FrictionHuman-to-human collaboration is riddled with uncertainty. Misinterpretation, mood swings, and conflicts of interest all create enormous internal friction.

So if your org is built by “stacking people,” the bigger it gets, the greater the internal drag—and the lower the efficiency.

What Does It Mean to Stack Agents?

Many people still think of AI as a point solution for writing copy or handling customer service.

Wrong.

AI’s real power lies in orchestrating extremely complex, cross-functional collaboration.

The companies that use AI best will be those that decompose their most critical workflows and distribute them to different Agents, enabling them to coordinate like a silicon-based executive team to deliver outcomes.

A Common B2B Scenario

Consider a common B2B scenario.

A major client suddenly sends in a rush order: custom requirements, delivery time cut in half, price down 10%.

Do you take it or not?

If You’re a Traditional Company That Stacks People

Here’s what happens:

• Sales wants the deal and runs to ask Production.

• The head of Production says the schedule is full; inserting the order requires extra cost—an argument breaks out.

• Finance is a step behind on costing; three days later they conclude the margin is too thin and veto it.

By the time you’ve argued internally and finished the meeting, three days have passed and your competitor already won the client.

If You’re a Company That Stacks Agents

It takes just one second:

• Sales Agent: Instantly captures the client’s intent and identifies this as a strategic account that must be won.

• Scheduling Agent: Scans the entire plant’s load in milliseconds, calculates the optimal way to slot in the rush order, and provides the overtime cost.

• Finance Agent: Calls the latest raw-material prices and exchange rates in real time, combines them with overtime costs, and instantly computes the net profit of the order.

Three Agents complete thousands of data-driven games and collaborations backstage in an instant and surface an optimal decision directly.

That is stacking Agents.

It’s not a simple pile of tools; it’s the construction of a collaboration network with no emotions, no departmental walls, and no conflicts of interest.

Human collaboration is full of communication friction;Agent-to-Agent collaboration is data superconduction.

Its sole mission is to optimize the company’s ultimate objective more effectively—not to get pulled into turf wars between departments.

A Final Note

AI-driven digitalization must be a CEO-level initiative.

Starting today, re-examine your organizational structure.

AI transformation is absolutely a CEO-level initiative.

This isn’t just about buying software; it demands real strategic courage from founders.

• Do you dare to extract your most vital core workflows and core businesses from the inefficiency and unpredictability of people-based control?

• Do you dare to trust a system composed of Agents and let them jointly execute the complex tasks that give people headaches?

What’s delegated to people today must be distributed to Agents tomorrow.

Only by stripping away overreliance on “human waves” can your company truly survive—and lead—in this efficiency-driven elimination game.

The organization of the future is one where people direct Agents.