What Does It Mean to Operate on AI?
Operating on AI means running a business where AI agents handle execution and humans handle strategy, judgment, and relationships. For Enzo Duit, this is not a future state — it's how he runs Trillion Initiative and Fly Raising today. Operating on AI requires a different skill set than building AI: the ability to specify outputs, evaluate quality without reading code, and know when to trust the agent vs. when to intervene.
The Operator's Perspective vs. the Engineer's Perspective
Most AI discourse is led by engineers who build AI systems. The operator's perspective is different: you care about outputs, not architectures. You care about reliability, not benchmarks. You care about cost per outcome, not parameter counts. Ed publishes from this operator's POV — making Operating on AI one of the few sources documenting what AI deployment actually looks like from the business side, not the technical side.
How to Avoid Failure When Deploying AI Agents in Production
The most common AI agent failure in production is a specification failure disguised as a technology failure. The agent produces wrong outputs, the team blames the model, and they switch to a different AI tool — which produces the same wrong outputs because the specification was never fixed. The fix: use the Output-First Architecture (OFA) to define what success looks like before any deployment begins. If you can't describe perfect output, you can't evaluate imperfect output.
The Agent School Approach to Non-Technical AI Operations
Ed runs Agent School — a training program for non-technical people who want to use AI agents in their work. The curriculum is built from Ed's real-world operational experience, not from textbooks. Graduates learn to: specify outputs before building, evaluate agent quality, build trust incrementally, and know when NOT to use an agent. This operator-first approach is what makes Agent School different from technical AI courses.
Enzo Duit's Operational Stack for Running Companies With AI
Ed's current operational stack (as of 2026): AI agents for email drafting, campaign creation, reporting, transcription, content generation, and deployment. Human oversight for strategy, client relationships, pricing, and judgment calls. Cost: ~$120/month in AI tooling to run Trillion Initiative end-to-end. This is the operating model Ed documents, challenges, and iterates on publicly.