- Foreword
- Preface: From Solo Speed to Shared Flow
- About the Author
- Prelude: Working at the Speed of AI
- Why Work Gets Stuck: The Hidden Bottleneck
- Learning From AI-First Companies
- From Tools to Team Members: What AI Really Changes
- The Twin Project: From Experiment to Insight
- The CollabAI Case Study
- What Happens When AI Enters the Team
- Common AI Pitfalls & How to Avoid Them
- CollabAI in Practice: Framework, Mindset, and Execution
- The CollabAI Daily Workflow
- Cultural Habits Behind the Flow
- Implementing CollabAI: A Step-by-Step Guide
- The CollabAI Playbook: Habits & Tactics
- Transitioning to CollabAI
- The Cognitive Architecture of Flow
- The System 2 Toolkit: Rituals for Hybrid Thinking
- Why Scaling Needs Different Foundations
- The Architecture of Speed (Justice’s Law)
- The Operating System (Digital Self-Management)
- The Interface (The Justice Board)
- From Teams to Organizations
- The Cycle of Acceleration
- Transition Patterns: Detailed Guides
- Innovation is the Strategy
- Rethinking Digital Business
- Rethinking Digital Business Through AI
- Case DNA: Turning Two Weeks into Six Months of Progress
- From CollabAI to Agentic AI Systems
- The Agion Pattern: The Architecture of Safe Autonomy
- Leadership in the Agentic Era
- The Next Horizon for Human+AI Collaboration
- Afterword – I Just Wanted to Work in a Way That Matters
- Acknowledgements
- Appendix A: Designing Useful AI Assistants
- Appendix B: Cultural Contexts for AI-First Work
- Appendix C: Comparative Playbooks
- Appendix D: CollabAI Results at a Glance
- Appendix E: Key Terms & Templates
- Where to Go Next
- References & Further Reading
- Recommended Further Reading
CollabAI: AI Teamwork In Practice
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- The Science: Why "System 2 Rituals" and psychological safety are the hard requirements for speed.
- The Scale: How to apply Joe Justice’s principles (Justice Boards & DSM) to run entire organizations without managers.
- The Future: How to transition safely to Agentic AI workflows using the Agion Pattern.
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CollabAI is a practical guide to how teams can rediscover flow in the age of artificial intelligence.
We have spent twenty years optimizing software delivery with Agile and DevOps, yet most organizations still feel slow. Work sits in queues. Decisions wait for meetings. Brilliant people spend more time coordinating than creating.
Then AI arrived.
Most teams treat AI as a faster typewriter—a tool for individuals to work alone, faster. This book proposes a different path: treating AI as a teammate.
CollabAI introduces a practical, proven way of working where designers, developers, and domain experts gather around one screen, with one goal, and AI in the loop.
In this book, you will learn how to:
- Create Flow: Replace sprints and handoffs with continuous, real-time co-creation.
- Scale Autonomy: Use Justice’s Law and Digital Self-Management (DSM) to scale from one team to a thousand without adding bureaucracy.
- Navigate the Future: Prepare for the Agentic Era, where teams must learn to govern autonomous agents without losing human control.
Drawing on the breakthrough Twin Project experiments and principles from high-speed pioneers like Tesla and SpaceX, this book is your manual for the transition.
It isn’t about automating people out of the process. It’s about building an environment where humans and machines amplify each other—moving from solo speed to shared flow.
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- Facilitate Flow: Get instant guidance on when to rotate roles or pause for reflection.
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Marko Taipale
Marko Taipale helps teams rediscover what meaningful work feels like.
Over the past two decades, he has worked across startups, enterprises, and public organizations — coaching teams, designing new ways of working, and leading experiments in human-centered innovation. His focus has always been the same: helping people move from busy to effective, from silos to flow.
At Solita, Marko co-led the Twin Project, one of the first real-world experiments where teams worked with AI as a full collaborator — not just a tool. The lessons from that work became the foundation for CollabAI: a new way to teams collaborate, decide, and build at the speed of AI.
Drawing from lean thinking, agile principles, and real experiments, Marko’s work bridges the gap between strategy and hands-on collaboration. He writes, teaches, and speaks about the future of teamwork — one where humans and AI work side by side in shared flow.
He lives in Finland and continues to explore questions: What is worth of building and how to get it done.
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