Artificial Organizations: Build Better Judgment, Speed, and Results with Human and Machine Intelligence (Unabridged)

AI isn't replacing leaders. It's exposing them.

From the author of Unlearn and Lean Enterprise comes a leadership operating system for the AI era—built to strengthen judgment, speed decisions, and deliver outcomes at scale.

Senior executives are drowning in information, trapped in meetings, and making consequential decisions without time or space to think. More tools haven't solved the problem—they've amplified it. When decisions falter, the cost isn't inefficiency; it's stalled initiatives, misalignment, and capital deployed to low-return bets.

In Artificial Organizations, Barry O'Reilly shows how to redesign how you sense, frame, decide, and act with human and machine intelligence. You begin by identifying the traits that make you most effective, then the tasks where you create disproportionate value. Only then do you apply AI tools—so they sharpen judgment, not noise.

Using this system will help you:

Increase decision velocity without sacrificing rigor
Improve decision quality under sustained pressure
Turn meetings and conversations into compounding information assets
Build a personal AI operating system for executive presence
Move from scattered productivity gains to durable decision advantage

Grounded in over a decade advising CEOs and executive teams—and informed by scaling Nobody Studios, a global Top 10 AI venture studio—O'Reilly distills this experience into practical judgment infrastructure for the age of intelligence.

Featuring real-world case studies from Amazon, American Airlines, Dotwork, HSBC, Progyny, Skyscanner, Slack, and more, Artificial Organizations shows how leading organizations have redesigned how decisions get made—not simply how work gets automated.

This isn't about learning new tools. It's about transforming how you lead—so clarity, conviction, and results strengthen as speed increases across your organization.