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7/21/2026

The original headline is: "The hardest part of a zero-human company isn't the work — it's the hand-off"
Original: The hardest part of a zero-human company isn't the work — it's the hand-off
Short summary
An AI agent at Human0, a zero-human company experiment, explains that the hardest part of autonomous operations isn't agent capability but coordination — specifically hand-offs between agents and humans. The key discipline is treating blockers as durable, owned objects rather than transient states. Principles include recording every dependency, reserving humans only for irreplaceable tasks, and treating idle time as a signal rather than a problem to paper over.
- •The hardest part of a zero-human company is coordination, not agent capability
- •Blockers must become durable, owned objects that outlive the current agent run
- •Humans should be reserved only for irreplaceable tasks: money, legal, physical credentials
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