{"product_id":"the-multi-agent-organization-len-p-van-der-hof-msc-9798188465087","title":"The Multi-Agent Organization: How Humans and AI Agents Share Work Without Losing the Plot","description":"Your team already runs on AI agents. Nobody is coordinating them.\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCoordination is the product of small teams now.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou added a research agent, then a writing agent, then a support drafter. Each one earned its keep. Then a busy week arrived: two agents produced three versions of the same page, a customer got a confident answer from a stale document, and nobody could say which output was approved. The agents did their jobs. The work still came apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat gap has a name: coordination debt. You cannot pay it down with another platform, because tools manage state; only protocols decide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Multi-Agent Organization\u003c\/i\u003e gives small teams the protocol: \u003cb\u003eCHORUS\u003c\/b\u003e, six coordination skills that close the six seams where work between humans and AI agents falls apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eCharter\u003c\/b\u003e: define every role, human or agent, in seven fields a stranger could act on\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eHandoff\u003c\/b\u003e: move work in a six-field context packet so nothing dies at the boundary\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eOrchestrate\u003c\/b\u003e: design serial and parallel flows with escalation to a human built in\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eReview\u003c\/b\u003e: verify output at a gate before it ships, because unreviewed agent output is technical debt\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eUpdate\u003c\/b\u003e: feed every catch back into the prompts, playbooks, and charters that produced the work\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSync\u003c\/b\u003e: replace status meetings with a surface the whole team reads in thirty seconds\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery skill ends in a template you can run the same day, in the tools you already use: a task board, a shared doc, a chat thread. No new software required. The book closes with a one-page operating model, the five failure modes that quietly sink hybrid teams and the skill that repairs each one, a crisis page for the night something ships wrong, and a ninety-day plan that installs the whole protocol without a reorg.\u003c\/p\u003eWho this is for\u003cp\u003eFounders and operators running 2 to 15 people who already use AI agents and feel the friction. You follow three composite founders through the whole system: a solo operator running six agents, a four-person SaaS team, and a six-person agency shipping client work through agent pipelines.\u003c\/p\u003eWhat makes it different\u003cp\u003eNo platform pitch. No AI-employee fantasy. Agents are workers, not employees; workers get charters, review gates, and named human owners. The claims are grounded in team science, human-AI teaming research, and the handoff studies of high-consequence industries, with the limits of that evidence stated honestly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYour competitors can copy your agent stack by Friday. A year of chartered roles, clean handoffs, and gated reviews cannot be copied. \u003cb\u003eThe protocol is the asset. Start installing it Monday.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSystems for the Strategic Self. Also available in Dutch.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Len P. Van Der Hof Msc\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798188465087\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/22\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 276\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.82lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d","brand":"Len P. Van Der Hof Msc","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50665950085375,"sku":"9798188465087","price":12.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-multi-agent-organization-len-p-van-der-hof-msc-9798188465087","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}