The AI-Native Shift - Beyond Industrial Defaults

The industrial defaults — approval required, dependency by design, compliance as the thing you measure — are being rebuilt into AI. Each week, three operators test one Value-First belief against systems they actually run.

The AI-Native Shift — Beyond Industrial Defaults is a weekly conversation about the industrial-era defaults quietly being rebuilt into AI and agent design: processes that require approval, systems that create dependency, and compliance as the thing you measure. Chris Carolan, Erin Wiggers and Trisha Merriam walk the five Value-First core beliefs one at a time and test each against systems they actually operate — including their own, on air, when it breaks. Trisha Merriam is a RevOps leader and HubSpot coach at SWOptimize; Erin Wiggers is an AI architect and coach at Geekeri; Chris Carolan connects it to the Value-First methodology.