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.