Vol.059 — Week 6 of Going AI Native: Best Practice for AI Adoption — “Set the goal first, then set the roles”
Date: 2026-07-18 | Newsletter
Key Summary
In Week 6 of Functional AI Partners’ public “Project AI Native” — the 12-week push to take DCC Corporate Services, its Singapore accounting firm, to 10x capacity — Zenta expected to hand down standardized roads. Instead, four roles emerged that he says he could not have written six weeks ago. All four accountants, none of whom had touched Claude before, now check their own output; some added a double-check step unprompted. Two pushed work into MYOB: the expense-claim accountant landed hers, while the supplier-invoice accountant hit three failures out of four, likely multi-currency configuration. Zenta reframes that “failure” — the person who hunts for what breaks becomes the natural centre of quality control. His lesson for owners: begin with a clear goal, not an org chart, and let pace follow business priorities and how fast people actually learn. Do it simple. Start with a clear goal, not a clear org chart. The roles arrive when the work is ready to show them to you.