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The Jury of 12: Why You Still Need Humans In An Agent Stack

Hard lessons57 min17 Apr 2026

Richard's surfing in Indonesia. Nataliya from LeadMark AI joins — enterprise change manager by day, SMB AI embedder by night — with the framing this panel's been circling for months: every 'AI implementation problem' is a change management problem in a tech t-shirt.

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Dave Pengelley
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Matt Slager
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Marno Brits
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Richard's off surfing in Indonesia, so this week we're joined by Nataliya from LeadMark AI — enterprise change manager by day, SMB AI embedder by night. She brings the lens this panel has been circling for months: every 'AI implementation problem' is actually a change management problem in a tech t-shirt.

Matt opens with the permission slip: if you can work with people, you can work with agents. The gating skill was never the code. Then the sharpest exchange of the show — Nataliya's 'Jury of 12' pushback when Matt floats hiring his partner as an admin layer. Diversity of thinking beats speed. Agents inherit your biases. A second human brings something they can't fake.

We close on harnesses. Same engine, different harness, different result. Nataliya's kicker: your agent architecture is a mirror of your org chart, whether you planned it or not.

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00:00Intro
02:16Welcome Nataliya: Day Job Change Manager, Night Job LeadMark AI
03:20'If You Can Work With People, You Can Work With Agents'
05:47Nataliya's 2017 AI Origin Story (Before It Was Cool)
09:19AI Update: Gemma, The Campfire Refusal
12:33Model-To-Mind Matching: The LinkedIn Quiz
14:35Harnesses Orchestrating Mixed Model Stacks
23:42Building In Public Is A Distribution Strategy
24:40Vendor Agnostic: Why Dave Moved Off Gemini
26:15Context Migration Services: The Missing Product Category
31:13Wins Of The Week: Matt Lands Client Number Six
37:28The Jury Of 12: Diversity Of Thinking Beats Speed
38:56'Agents Inherit Your Biases'
40:05Marno Launches Adaptive AI Solutions & Turns 30
46:41Dave: Change Management Is The Critical Layer
53:23The Harness Analogy
56:08Nataliya: The Harness Is The Org Chart