Surface Expanded: An Agentic AI Business Story
Vasko, Edward
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Add to basketSurface Expanded is a business parable about agentic AI, organizational knowledge and the hidden consequences of efficiency without understanding. It asks a question every leader adopting AI will eventually have to answer: What must humans still know how to do when machines can do nearly everything for them?
Agentic AI promises organizations unprecedented speed, efficiency and scale. But what happens when the systems making decisions can act faster than the people responsible for understanding them?
After being replaced by automation, experienced software engineer Evan Rausch builds LatticeForge: a company of one operated through a network of autonomous AI agents.
At VelocityFit, executives eliminate most of their workforce in pursuit of frictionless growth.
Meanwhile, IronGrid Systems introduces agentic technology into the critical infrastructure supporting power, water and transportation-while a small group of operators insists that human judgment still matters.
All three companies use the same ubiquitous and globally dominant agentic AI software: SynapseFlow, named for the company that invented it. Essentially a global monopoly due to its meteoric rise and advanced technologies, SynapseFlow now undergirds everything from small companies to multinational corporations and national governments. Everything runs on SynapseFlow now and it is often automatically embedded in new, emerging technologies.
But when a flawed SynapseFlow software update begins moving through increasingly autonomous organizations, each discovers the true cost of replacing expertise with output. SynapseFlow systems have extensive data, complete logs and extraordinary capabilities. What they lack is something much harder to automate: people who understand why the work is done, recognize when something does not belong and know when a correct-looking answer is dangerously wrong.
Edward Vasko, CISSP, is a nationally recognized speaker, author, entrepreneur, and subject matter expert on cybersecurity, workforce development, and organizational transformation. He previously served as Director of Boise State University's Institute of Pervasive Cybersecurity, where his work helped establish the university as a national leader in cybersecurity research and workforce development.
With more than 30 years in cybersecurity, Edward has founded, led, and successfully exited five businesses in the industry. He was Senior Vice President at Avertium and co-founder and CEO of Terra Verde, which he grew into Arizona's largest provider of cybersecurity advisory and managed security services, serving more than 2,000 clients worldwide.
Edward has served on numerous university and public-sector advisory groups focused on developing the next generation of cybersecurity professionals. He served on Arizona's Commission for Post-Secondary Education, co-chaired the Arizona Cyber Team Workforce Development Committee, and was a member of Idaho's Cybersecurity Task Force. His first book, Opportunity Seized, Squandered, Lost: An AI Business Parable, was published in 2024. He is an Arizona State University graduate and multi-year recipient of ASU's Sun Devil 100 business leadership award. Most importantly, Edward is a proud father and husband.
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