Your Company Has No Bill Of Work

YPO Technology Network AI Brief · Sep 26, 2026 · 16m

Every product a company makes has a bill of materials: every part, its cost, its supplier. The company that makes those products has no equivalent document for the work its people do. This weekend edition is about that missing document, the bill of work, why almost nobody has one, and how to build one for a single department in about three weeks.

Nobody has done the counting: the Census Bureau finds 85 percent of US firms using generative AI use it for writing and editing, and nearly 65 percent confine it to three tasks or fewer. More than seven thousand annual reports filed with the SEC…