Vol.043 — Week 1 of Going AI Native: We Built Zero AI Agents. Here’s Why.
Date: 2026-06-12 | Newsletter
Key Summary
In Vol.043, Zenta opens a new weekly strand of his AI Adoption Series — “Project AI Native,” the live, week-by-week story of one Singapore SME becoming AI Native. The business on the line is not the tech company FunAi but Zenta’s own DCC Corporate Services, an accounting and corporate-services firm run day to day by his director, Getty. The target he set his team is not token usage but 10x productivity — a growth plan, not a layoff plan. Week 1’s surprise: they built zero AI agents and automated nothing. Instead they installed the tool, joined a community, and spent the real work of the week mapping their own operation, step by step. The hurdle nobody sells, Zenta argues, is that before AI can take over any work, someone must be able to explain that work clearly. The first real win had nothing to do with AI — slowing down to describe the work revealed a hidden talent on his team. Do it simple. Set the outcome, then start by understanding what you actually do. The AI comes after.