I came to talk AI agents. Left bullish on people.

Notes from Pavilion's GTM2026, and what a room full of humans taught an AI company.

Amos Bar Joseph October 16, 2026

I’m Amos Bar Joseph**, co-founder of Swan, the first Autonomous Business OS. At Swan, we’re building what we call the Autonomous Business: a company that scales to $10M ARR per employee with no bloat, no assembly lines, no Cog Culture. Just humans in their zone of genius, amplified by AI agents.*

I write The Autonomous Age to share contrarian insights from that journey, on GTM, leadership, and the future of work. If you want to understand how GTM evolves beyond playbooks and assembly lines, this is where the story unfolds. Connect with me on Linkedin or X. If that's not the game you're playing, reply to unsubscribe.

I flew across the world to talk about AI agents.. and came home bullish on people.

At Swan AI we're building the first autonomous business. $10M ARR per employee, with agents running the execution so every person on the team spends their day on judgment.

18 months ago nobody knew who we were.

At GTM2026, I got to keynote Pavilion's flagship summit in front of hundreds of GTM leaders. Pavilion's 10th anniversary brought 1,000 VP-and-above operators to The Glasshouse for four days.

Most conference talks die on the flight home. You snap a photo of a slide, and by Wednesday your inbox has buried it.

So together with Pavilion, we made the summit something you could take home. Every speaker could turn their talk into a skill: their method, written step by step under their own name, ready for an AI agent to run on your accounts. Scan the closing slide, and it went straight to your inbox.

They all live on gtmskills.com, among 300+ free skills written by operators who have done the job.

The thing is.. the deeper I go into building agents, the clearer it gets where their best material comes from.

Rooms like that one.

A model knows everything that has been written down. It has no access to what operators only say face to face, like the play that flopped last quarter or the number they'd never put in a deck.

Nothing beats a room full of HUMAN operators sharing what works and what doesn't.

Pavilion started in 2016 as a handful of revenue leaders swapping notes over dinner. Agents finally give that dinner table a way to reach everyone who wasn't sitting at it.

Thank you Sam Jacobs and the Pavilion team for building this with us.

Back to building..

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-Amos

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