Mass Automation

What happens when companies can make decisions, analyze data, andmanufacture products-mostly without people?In Mass Automation: Rethinking Companies for an Era When They CanAct on Their Own, Nick Pogrebnyakov takes readers on a compellingjourney into a near future where AI, robotics, and data sensing convergeto reshape how companies work, compete, and evolve.This is not a technical manual. It's a sweeping yet grounded vision of"nearly automated companies" where AI drives decision-making, robotsperform physical tasks, and sensing technologies capture and interpretreal-time data.Drawing on two decades of experience in academia and industry,Pogrebnyakov unpacks how automation transforms company functions-strategy, R&D, marketing, logistics. Through vivid scenarios and realworldexamples, he shows how automation fundamentally alters howfirms compete, organize, and scale.Business leaders, entrepreneurs, engineers, scholars, and policymakerswill find this a grounded, practical guide for preparing for mass automation.If you're looking for more than hype about AI and robotics-if you want tounderstand how businesses will actually work in an automated economy-this book is your blueprint.