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CXO Intelligence Series

A weekly briefing for the C-suite on building the AI-native enterprise, written by Prashant Akhawat.

New edition every Monday, published here in HTML and PDF and on LinkedIn.

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Edition 07 · August 6, 2026

The Judgment Premium: Roles, Skills and Careers When Agents Do the Work

The scarce resource of the next decade is not intelligence. It is a person willing to put their name on a decision.

CXO Intelligence Series, Edition 07, August 6, 2026. ISSN: applied for.

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Publication details of the CXO Intelligence Series
TitleCXO Intelligence Series
ISSNApplied for
Publisher and EditorPrashant Akhawat, Bengaluru, India
Contactakhawat@isecol.com
FormatOnline (electronic serial), published in HTML and PDF
Distributionakhawat.com/cxo-intelligence and the LinkedIn newsletter
FrequencyWeekly
LanguageEnglish
SubjectManagement; Enterprise Artificial Intelligence; Organization Design
Year of first issue2026

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Unnumbered issues of the series, across all three tracks: governance submissions, life sciences, primers and technical deep dives.

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How to cite

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Cite an edition of this series in the following form:

Akhawat, P. (2026). The Second Workforce: A Blueprint for the Org Chart When Agents Report for Work. CXO Intelligence Series, Edition 06. akhawat.com. ISSN pending.

Editorial note

The CXO Intelligence Series is written and edited solely by Prashant Akhawat.

Prashant Akhawat is a technology and AI practitioner with over 25 years building and scaling enterprise technology platforms, and an alumnus of BITS Pilani and IMI Delhi. He has spent the last decade designing and operating AI platforms inside regulated and operationally complex enterprises across life sciences, financial services, media and government, moving AI from experimentation to production-scale, governed business capability. He is the author of AI-SAFE, the enterprise AI architecture framework that underpins much of the analysis in this series.

Tracks

Three sub-series inside the journal

Every piece belongs to one track. The parent series carries them all; each track has its own page with the full sequence in order of publication.

13 published Enterprise AI Series The thesis track: what decides winners, how the organisation is redesigned, and what the economics do to valuation. Carries the numbered editions and the standing explainers. Open the track → 7 published Governance Series Where capability meets accountability: the EU AI Act, the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, the ISO/IEC 42001 family, GxP and 21 CFR Part 11 in regulated life sciences, and agentic AI governance. Four numbered articles, a companion reference, an implementation checklist and a life sciences briefing. Open the track → In preparation Life Sciences Series AI in FDA and EMA regulated environments, where a decision can reach a patient: validation and continuous assurance, ALCOA+, GAMP 5 and 21 CFR Part 11. Announced, with the first edition still to publish. Open the track →

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