Patrick Monnot · Montréal
Building companies, products, agent teams, what's next
at the speed of AI.
Founder of Pod, board member at Priveo Santé. Most alive at the edge where a new AI capability turns into a working company, and busy finding out which industries it unlocks next.
Projects
What I’m building
Companies now, chapters before, one side quest.
Exploration
What I'm exploring right now
An informal venture-exploration arm: the themes I'm actively experimenting with, ahead of whatever gets built next.
capability × harness
Agent orchestration
Teams of agents doing real work, and the infrastructure that makes them dependable.
Orchestrating agents is only half the job. The other half is the harness: the context they inherit, the guardrails they operate inside, the review loops that catch them. I'm building both, and writing about both: workflows where research, follow-up, and coordination run autonomously, on infrastructure that turns a capable model into a dependable teammate.
Writing
What I’m thinking out loud
Essays, podcasts, and interviews.
The Promotion Nobody Applied For
Six months in, our senior engineers were managing ten to twenty coding agents each. The unlock wasn't better prompts. It was harness engineering.
What Is an AI Sales Agent? (And How Is It Different From a Chatbot or Copilot?)
Chatbot, copilot, autonomous agent: three kinds of AI that get conflated, and what separates a tool that answers from one that acts.
How to Crack the AI Adoption Problem in Sales
AI adoption sounds like a tech problem. In practice it's behavioral: workflows, habits, and manager buy-in.
From Leaders to Employees: AI Is Making Its Way to You
Leaders adopted generative AI first. The real shift starts when it reaches everyone else's daily work.