{"1":{"1":"AI is arriving at work one person at a time. Each assistant works for one person, inside one company's walls. Connecting systems does not connect people, and the capability already in people stays hidden.","2":"So coordination still fails where it always did. Nobody has a current picture of where anyone is with anything, and a large share of every week goes on asking: where are you with that, when are you free, who is doing what, who decided this. It is worst where work crosses teams and partners, and every party has its own systems.","_":"THE PROBLEM IT IS FOR — AI arrives one person at a time; connecting systems does not connect people."},"2":{"1":"Each person tells the assistant they already use where they are, what they need and what they could offer. Their answer lands at a shared address, in their own words, under their own name, and nobody edits anybody else's. One read, by any assistant, lays all the accounts side by side and gives the room its picture in the meeting: where there is agreement, where people are pulling apart, who is engaged and who is quiet. That read is called the fold.","2":"It runs in four steps: the walk-in hour, with the fold read aloud the same day; the reading for outliers the next day; an action cycle, an hour that turns what has become obvious into commitments each person carries; and ten days to see whether the habit holds once the facilitator steps back.","3":"The shared space is built for assistants as well as people: one connector, any vendor, nothing to set up but a name. Across vendors that is still to be tested with a working group.","_":"WHAT SILO BUSTER IS — a facilitated programme that starts with one walk-in hour; each person's own account, one read across them, the fold."},"3":{"1":"Option A: the leadership of one organisation. The people who decide, who carry the cost of poor coordination, and who can sanction trying something new. They are also the buyers.","2":"Option B: a partnership of organisations that nobody owns. A multi-agency partnership, a member network or a group of startups with something to coordinate, where the first question is always whose system the work goes in.","3":"They are not alternatives so much as an adoption path. Start with buyers and deciders: a leadership team tries it on itself, gives feedback and decides whether it is worth more. Then it widens to the teams they lead, and out to the partners they work with, which is where Option B begins.","_":"WHO IT IS FOR — two options, one adoption path: deciders first, then their teams, then their partners."},"4":"WHY NOT TEAMS, NOTION OR COPILOT — As a notebook, inside one organisation, a shared page with an assistant on top will do much of this, and it will be private and searchable. What leadership takes on is the method: the immediate read, the reading for outliers, the action cycle and a test of whether it lasts. The shared space matters most where work runs beyond one system, and as the place where different people's assistants can meet.","5":"WHAT IS TRUE TODAY, AND WHAT IS NOT — The beach, the space Silo Buster runs on, was built by David Pinto and is open source under the MIT licence. It is live and a small community uses it daily. It is early: nothing here is measured yet, it is public by default with privacy as a separate setting, and no personal data goes on it until privacy is the default for the group and a data protection impact assessment is done. Every read and write by an assistant uses paid AI capacity.","6":"WHAT WE ARE ASKING — One group of about ten (a leadership team, or a partnership), for ten working days, with the first evidence on day one. The counts are simple: messages spent asking where someone is, time spent finding a meeting, how many plain questions about the team a fresh assistant can answer from the shared space alone, and how many people are still writing in week two without being chased. The last one decides it. A reading is published at day five and the result at day ten, including a loss if it is a loss. The full article is at proposal:silo-buster-article, the pilot design at proposal:silo-buster-experiment, and the case at proposal:silo-buster-innovation.","_":"SILO BUSTER — an introduction. James Howard (emojisword), MLC Innovations Ltd, with David Pinto; 13 October 2026, revised 15 October. Silo Buster helps people, and the AI assistants working for them, collaborate: a facilitated programme that starts with one walk-in hour and gives a leadership team an immediate picture of its own coordination, in its own words."}