# Becoming AI-Native

> A field guide for leadership teams taking a company through the AI transition,
> by Ben Hormell. Roughly 87,000 words across ten stages, with a companion agent
> and a workshop methodology layer.

The book is readable by agents as well as people. Two ways in:

- MCP server (read-only, no auth, no key required):
  https://lelwpzddgqhezznctjog.supabase.co/functions/v1/bn-mcp
  Tools: search_nodes, get_node, get_book_section, get_section_prose,
  get_methodology_index. Descriptor at /.well-known/mcp.json
- Agent card (A2A): /.well-known/agent-card.json
- How to connect: https://becoming.nodalix.ai/for-agents

## The book

- [Read online](https://becoming.nodalix.ai): all ten stages, forty sections
- [Full text as JSON](https://becoming.nodalix.ai/book.json): every section keyed by number, for example "5.2"
- [PDF](https://becoming.nodalix.ai/the-book.pdf)
- [Word document](https://becoming.nodalix.ai/the-book.docx)
- [Figures](https://becoming.nodalix.ai/figures.zip): 96 hand-drawn diagrams as SVG

## What it covers

- Stage 1: why the transition needs design at the front, and the ninety-thousand-hour question
- Stage 2: three postures, five archetypes, the nine-layer AI stack, a maturity model, and the progression from chat to an AI operating system
- Stage 3: the operating system, the operating-system inventory, and the new knowledge work loop
- Stage 4: knowledge graphs alongside retrieval and other knowledge architectures, operating-model design, the collaboration surface, epistemic hygiene, and the economics
- Stage 5: the leader's own practice, the human reckoning and the covenant, what humans bring, AI for thinking against AI as thinking, up-leveling, passion, hidden expertise, unlearning, and workforce design
- Stage 6: team practices, the moments that matter, the state of the workforce, and the new toolbox
- Stage 7: the loops, the iceberg, and what to measure
- Stage 8: three days in the life, and five failure cases
- Stage 9: how the work gets done, the alignment sprint, the long middle, and the craft of running the room
- Stage 10: what the author believes, and why

## Terms

The text may be quoted with attribution to Ben Hormell, "Becoming AI-Native,"
and the section number. Please cite the section so a human reader can find the
passage.