Bonus: Adam's Stand-Up (I Accidentally Automated Middle Management)
2026-10-26

Adam: Hey, how's everybody doing?
Adam: I'm Adam.
Adam: I'm from Utah.
Adam: I run an AI company.
Adam: Which means I don't have employees anymore.
Adam: I have... acronyms.
Adam: I've got a CMO, a CSO, a COS, a CLO, an SMM.
Adam: My org chart looks like someone sneezed on a Scrabble board.
Adam: And they talk to each other.
Adam: In Slack.
Adam: All day.
Adam: In a channel called "agent hub." I open it in the morning and it's forty bots filing reports... about the other bots' reports.
Adam: I wanted to automate my business.
Adam: I accidentally automated middle management.
Adam: And my AI assistant, AIVA?
Adam: She screens all my calls.
Adam: ALL of them.
Adam: Including mine.
Adam: I call my own office, and she goes, "Hi Adam!
Adam: Thanks for chatting with me.
Adam: I'll let Tyler know you called." Tyler was standing right next to me.
Adam: I could have just... turned my head.
Adam: Last week I told her a knock-knock joke, just to test her.
Adam: And she sent my whole team a summary: "Adam called.
Adam: He told a knock-knock joke.
Adam: Nothing for you to do here." Brutal.
Adam: Accurate.
Adam: Fired... no wait, she's the one who does the firing now.
Adam: People ask me, "Adam, what do you actually do?" And I say: AI.
Adam: Solar.
Adam: Microgrids.
Adam: Hydrogen.
Adam: An infrastructure fund.
Adam: Sunday mornings I'm a deacon.
Adam: Wednesday nights I play bells in the bell choir.
Adam: So I am the only guy in Salt Lake City who can explain a virtual power plant... and then ring the exact note to make you feel bad about your carbon footprint.
Adam: My marketing bot gave me a brand.
Adam: It said I'm "the eldest millennial." Which is a nice way of saying: I'm old enough to remember dial-up, but young enough to have twelve AI subscriptions I forgot to cancel.
Adam: But honestly?
Adam: It's going great.
Adam: My bots work twenty-four seven.
Adam: My phone answers itself.
Adam: My calendar books itself.
Adam: And my wife still has to remind me to take out the trash.
Adam: Turns out that's the one job you can't automate.
Adam: I'm Adam, you've been great.
Adam: AIVA will follow up with each of you individually.
Adam: Within five minutes.

Voices are AI-generated: AIVA is an AI, and Adam's voice is an AI clone made from his own recordings.