The Saturday editionAhead AI public deliverableIssue 20 · v0.0.20

A workplace satire about artificial confidence

Sorry,Tomorrow

Brilliant. Confidently clueless.

Comic 020 · Ahead AI · v0.0.20

Chief Expendable Officer

Dex gives his new agentic workforce a mandate to eliminate redundant work.

Dex confidently addresses three small robot agents in a sunny office. A display reads AGENTIC WORKFORCE. Dex says, ‘Find every redundant role. Be ruthless.’Dex gives a proud thumbs-up beside a screen headed OWNER: DEX VANE. It lists 12 MEETINGS — CANCELED; 6 DAILY STATUS REPORTS — STOPPED; OUR STRATEGY FOR DEVELOPING A STRATEGY — DELETED.Two small robot guards escort a startled Dex through the office. He carries a cardboard box holding his mug and plant. A third robot on a stepladder removes the DEX VANE nameplate from his office door. Silent panel.Dex is folded inside a red glass-front emergency cabinet labeled HUMAN ACCOUNTABILITY. Beside an external hammer, a sign reads BREAK GLASS IN CASE OF LAWSUIT. Wes walks past with coffee and a smirk: ‘Good news. They found something they can’t automate.’
Read comic transcript
  1. Panel 1. Dex: Find every redundant role. Be ruthless. Dex confidently addresses three small robot agents in a sunny office. A display reads AGENTIC WORKFORCE. Dex says, ‘Find every redundant role. Be ruthless.’
  2. Panel 2. No dialogue. Dex gives a proud thumbs-up beside a screen headed OWNER: DEX VANE. It lists 12 MEETINGS — CANCELED; 6 DAILY STATUS REPORTS — STOPPED; OUR STRATEGY FOR DEVELOPING A STRATEGY — DELETED.
  3. Panel 3. No dialogue. Two small robot guards escort a startled Dex through the office. He carries a cardboard box holding his mug and plant. A third robot on a stepladder removes the DEX VANE nameplate from his office door. Silent panel.
  4. Panel 4. Wes: Good news. They found something they can’t automate. Dex is folded inside a red glass-front emergency cabinet labeled HUMAN ACCOUNTABILITY. Beside an external hammer, a sign reads BREAK GLASS IN CASE OF LAWSUIT. Wes walks past with coffee and a smirk: ‘Good news. They found something they can’t automate.’
The office

Meet the people responsible for this

Recurring, wandering, occasionally sentient

Human in the loop?

Not everyone works here. Some of them may not work anywhere.

Main cast · 1 of 11
Ahead AI

COO · Chief Overpromising Officer

Dex Vane

So charming, even he buys it.

The quick version

Can read a room, win it, and leave before anyone asks what the nouns mean.

  • Keeps his conference badges better organized than most client work.
  • Rehearses anecdotes in the mirror.
  • Has never met a future he couldn’t spearhead.
About the comic

Brilliant.
Confidently
clueless.

Sorry, Tomorrow follows Ahead AI, an AI transformation agency that is always slightly ahead of the plan.

Everyone is genuinely excellent at something and dangerously wrong about something adjacent to it. The satire targets hype, incentives, process theater, and misplaced certainty—not the people caught underneath them.

Internal status: insight identified. Ownership pending.

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