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The job-on-top refusal

September 9, 2026

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Every AI rollout I've watched stumble hits the same wall: it starts to feel like one more job stacked on top of the job someone already has.

My co-host Erin Wiggers has been sitting in a fractional AI-orchestrator seat for a client, and she named the line she won't cross.

"I'm not trying to make AI a job on top of the job that you already have that they're not going to pay you anymore for. That doesn't make sense. That's not what I'm about."

If that's the resistance you're running into on your own team, this is the sentence that answers it.

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Fractional AI Orchestrator: The Role Your Org Chart Doesn't Have

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