The Operations Room: A Podcast for COO’s 91. AI in The Future of Work
Feb 12, 2026
Agata Nowicka, Managing Partner at AI Visionaries and author of the Female Innovation Index, is an investor and advisor who scales AI and deeptech startups. She discusses planning distribution from day one. She questions monetisation alignment at scale. She warns about onboarding and sales eroding promised value. She urges building AI-first companies and raising AI fluency across the workforce.
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Train Managers To Manage Agents
- Teach managers practical management skills focused on delegation, context-setting, and holding AI agents accountable.
- Break down work into bite-sized tasks and train new managers to 'slow down to speed up' when using AI.
AI Fluency Is Becoming Core
- Employees across functions are highly eager to upskill in AI and expect employer support to do so.
- AI fluency is rapidly becoming a core workforce capability, not an optional perk.
Automate Candidate Assessments
- Automate repetitive hiring assessments by building AI evaluators and keep humans only for ambiguous cases.
- Use human feedback to iteratively improve the evaluator until it can handle most candidates reliably.