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Ghost Decisions.
The book.

For the engineering leader being asked to scale through AI adoption, platform thinking, and team design — at the same time — without breaking what already works.

Ghost Decisions

Leading engineering when the engineers aren't all human.

Suzanne Daniels

> The premise

Agile assumed all work is done by humans. That assumption no longer holds. Most of what's been written since hasn't caught up. This book is the playbook I wish I'd had — written from thirty years of platforms, organisations, and shipping software.

> What you'll get

01

What changed when AI got a seat at the table.

Why the assumptions Agile was built on no longer hold, and what to put in their place — without throwing out the things that still work.

02

The platform is the operating model.

Internal developer platforms are no longer just productivity tools — they are the contract that lets human and AI work safely on the same codebase.

03

How to make decisions faster than your competitors.

Most engineering organisations don't fail because of bad technology. They fail because of slow decisions. The ISEE framework — Intent, Structure, Execution, Evidence — is how I unblock them.

04

What stays the same.

Thirty years of engineering wisdom that survived every paradigm shift. The boring parts that never go out of style.