Twice Ahead: How to Build an Agent-Powered Business Before Your Industry Catches Up (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798995544418)

The first time, the internet changed how business was done. This time, agents will change how businesses are built.

In 1994, Thomas Heimann coined the term autoresponder, built one of the first web domain registration services, and grew a company into the world's largest web hosting provider - serving 10,000 customers across 30 countries. He didn't watch the internet revolution happen. He built infrastructure for it before most businesses understood what they were looking at.

Three decades later, he's seeing the exact same pattern.

Right now, most businesses are using AI to clean up emails and generate social media posts. That's the surface. Underneath, a structural shift is underway: AI agents that can research, route, draft, monitor, and execute - under human oversight - are about to reshape how companies are designed, staffed, and run. The founders who see this early will build advantages that late movers won't be able to close.

Twice Ahead is not a book about prompts or tools. It's a founder's playbook for redesigning your business around an agent-powered operating model - before your industry catches up.

Inside you'll learn:

• Why most people are misreading AI the same way they misread the internet in 1994 - and what the pioneers see differently
• The decision framework for what stays with humans and what gets delegated to agents
• How to design a hybrid workforce of people, software, and AI agents - including role design, trust calibration, and escalation paths
• Where to start: identifying high-value workflows and deploying your first real AI agent with defined boundaries and accountability
• How agent systems compound - and why early movers build structurally impossible-to-close advantages
• What governance, memory, and trust look like in practice - drawn from real playbook architecture, not theory
• An honest look inside the author's own AI buildout - what's working, what's hard, and what's next
• A 90-day roadmap for making the structural decisions now that will compound over the next three to five years

This book is written for entrepreneurs, founders, and executives who are done dabbling with AI and ready to build around it. Whether you're in real estate, healthcare, legal, financial services, logistics, or any other industry - your 1994 moment is happening right now.

The window is open. It won't stay open long. The winners are being decided now.