10X Org: AI and Organizational Design - with Author Alexey Krivitsky

AI-native startups are moving at 100X. One CEO, five Mac Minis, a full product. They don’t need org design consulting. They started clean, no legacy, no inherited structure. Good for them.

From now on, your organization will be benchmarked against what’s now possible. And the question your leadership will face, if they haven’t already, is: why can’t we move like that? And why do we see only costs increasing (tokens and subscriptions) with no visible gains?

Your organization did not start from scratch when AI arrived. It was already on a path — a management system, team structures, habits built up over the years. AI found all of that already in place. And it is very likely your org is on the same trajectory as before, now with AI spread like fairy dust, increasing costs but not necessarily gains.

Your “Search” stream-aligned team is shipping features in its lane at a record pace. Your “Payment” component team produces more integrations than ever — but still depends on the same queues and hand-offs. Your DB designer outputs 100X more DB designs. Everyone now works according to an “AI SDLC”. But has anything really changed?

Is there real demand for this much of the same stuff? Are the old dependencies still in place?

What if agile was the homework, and AI adoption is the real assignment now?

The org design choices made (or not made) over the last two decades now determine how much of that 100X potential actually lands as system-wide improvement.

100X? 1X? 10X?

For LeSS practitioners, this is familiar ground but with new urgency. Broad co-ownership, cross-component work, multi-learning. AI is not just pushing harder in those directions, but it can also be used to challenge the historical beliefs about why that was never possible. When applied strategically, it can make the learning itself more feasible, and it can help change the historically organizational trajectory. Finally.’

Join us for a conversation with Alexey Krivitsky, co-author of 10X ORG (Amazon #1 Bestseller, written with Craig Larman and Roland Flemm), on what it takes to go beyond local speed gains — and why the answer is still People + AI, not AI instead of people.

The format:

• Introduction & framing (Robert Briese)
• Moderated discussion with Alexey Krivitsky
• Audience Q&A
• Book signing & networking