The Bestselling Book
An AI-native organization changes how the work itself gets done, then keeps a network of people who redesign that work again every time the models move. Hyperadaptive is the playbook for building that network and deciding what to point it at.
Most organizations are running a different play. Roll out the licenses, run the pilots, wait for the productivity to show up in the numbers. Meanwhile your people are further along than your org chart shows, and what they work out stays on the team that worked it out. This book is about the layer that would carry it.
Melissa M. Reeve. Foreword by Ryan Martens. IT Revolution Press, May 2026. Kindle, print and audiobook.
#1 in Business Management Science, Amazon Kindle Store, May 2026
What you've already got
People using the tools every day, and a few of them good enough to teach. Somebody in your organization has already taken a day a week off their own plate, and nobody made them do it.
The thing most likely holding you back
Nothing carries it. The person who saved that day has no way to hand it to the next team, nobody asked them to, and it isn't anyone's job to notice. So the next team solves the same problem from scratch.
Melissa spent 25 years watching serious people try to fix how organizations work, starting with the Toyota Production System at Waseda and running through the Agile movement, the Agile Marketing Alliance and Scaled Agile. Each one changed part of a company. The budget cycle, the org chart and the performance review stayed where they were, and the system absorbed the change. You could adopt the new practice and route around the parts that would have required the structure to move.
AI doesn't sit still like that. It touches the work in every function at once, so the operating model is going to change either way.
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What the 1990s Taught Us About Tech Support
We finally have an opening to change the entire system...does it change by accident, or by purpose?
01
A read on where you are.
The five stages of AI integration, and the five capabilities an organization builds as it moves through them. Most leadership teams place themselves a stage ahead of where they sit, and having that argument out loud is half the value.
The five stages
The five capabilities
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AI Power Users vs. Everyone Else
02
The network that spreads what works.
AI leads, activation hubs and business-area interpreters, and what each one is on the hook for.
03
A way to choose.
The FOCUS framework for deciding which use cases earn the effort, so the spend stops going to random acts of AI.
The redesign of workflows has the biggest effect on an organization's ability to see EBIT impact from its use of gen AI. Source: McKinsey, State of AI, March 2025 (1,491 respondents, 101 nations, surveyed July 2024)
Nearly three-quarters of high performers now report fundamentally redesigning workflows because of their AI use, up from 55% the year before. Source: McKinsey, State of AI, August 2026 (1,719 respondents, surveyed May to June 2026)
8% of US workers strongly agree that AI has transformed how work gets done where they work. Source: Gallup, February 2026 (23,717 employed US adults, surveyed February 4 to 19, 2026)
Redesigning the work is what moves the number. Most people still can't see it happening where they work.
Start here
One leader has the framework, and spends the next three months translating it for everyone else.
The whole group has read the same pages, so the first meeting starts on the decision.
Buy it, then claim the reader toolkit: the Hyperadaptive Model PDF, the AI Integration Handbook, early access to new frameworks as they release, and the Substack.
Order copies for the group that has to make AI work. At 15 copies Melissa runs a 30-minute session with your team, as a book club or a short exec briefing. At 30, a 60-minute working session.
Talk about a team readA home-appliance manufacturer
The Head of AI at a major home-appliance manufacturer read the book and stood up an AI leads forum for his organization, on his own.
A community bank
A community bank's CIO applied the model and took a biweekly committee prep from eight hours to three minutes. Fifty of the bank's 200 employees came in as champions, and it pulled its full AI rollout forward by six months.
Praise for the book
In an era defined by AI-driven uncertainty, leaders need more than inspiration. They need a playbook.
One of the most thoughtful books on AI organizational transformation available today.
Melissa speaks on what the book covers, and every talk gets rebuilt for the room.
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