By Mohamed Ali - Technology & Digital Economy Commentary
April 6, 2026 - Most companies bought AI like they bought a better coffee machine. Plug it in. Get a small boost. Move on. Jack Dorsey thinks that’s the wrong move. Completely wrong. On March 31, 2026, Dorsey and Sequoia Capital’s Roelof Botha published a bold essay titled “From Hierarchy to Intelligence” — and it’s been sending shockwaves through boardrooms ever since.
The argument is simple but brutal, your organization's chart is an ancient information routing system dressed up in a suit. Corporate hierarchy as we know it traces back to the Roman Army , soldiers nested in groups to manage communication at human scale. That was 2,000 years ago. And most companies are still running that same system today. Here’s the thing: it worked, until AI showed up.
Most CEOs right now are handing their teams an AI copilot. Write faster. Code faster. Answer emails faster. And yes, that helps. But Dorsey and Botha argue this approach only makes the existing structure work slightly better without changing it. You’re just adding a turbocharger to a horse-drawn cart. The real opportunity is bigger. Scarier. And honestly, kind of exciting.
What Dorsey is proposing is something fundamentally different, a company built as an intelligence, or what he calls a “mini-AGI.” Every Slack message, every pull request, every meeting recording , all of it becomes data. You build a living model of your company. Anyone can query it. No more waiting for a manager to relay information up and down a chain. The chain disappears.
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Block cut 4,000 employees, 40% of its workforce , in February 2026. Dorsey’s reasoning was direct: intelligence tools, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working that fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company.
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