# The Strange Employee

> An ebook by Mind with Tools: how to hand real work to AI agents, and decide how much to trust them. For office and knowledge workers who already use ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Copilot, with no coding.

Format: EPUB + PDF, DRM-free, about 28,500 words, 110-page PDF. First edition, October 2026.
Price: US$9.99 on Gumroad (base price before applicable taxes; checked 2026-10-03). Kindle edition in review at Amazon.
Core idea: agentic AI is delegation, not conversation. Every delegation has four parts: Goal, Tools, Boundaries, Feedback.
Structure: a ladder of responsibility: conversation, tool use, bounded delegation, multi-step workflow, persistent agent, increasing autonomy, multiple agents.
Contact: mindwithtools@imperiumpost.com

## Buy
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## Read
- [Free sample: Introduction and Chapter 1](https://strangeemployee.imperiumpost.com/sample/)
- [How to Delegate Real Work to an AI Agent, Without Writing Code](https://strangeemployee.imperiumpost.com/guides/how-to-delegate-work-to-an-ai-agent/): Pick a first task, fill in a one-page delegation card, watch the first run, and fix the line that failed.
- [AI Agent Failures: 9 Real Cases, What Went Wrong, and the Safeguard for Each](https://strangeemployee.imperiumpost.com/guides/ai-agent-failures-real-examples/): Nine dated, sourced cases, from a wiped database to an inbox deleting itself, with a safeguard for each.
- [How Much Should You Trust an AI Agent? Choose It Task by Task](https://strangeemployee.imperiumpost.com/guides/how-much-to-trust-an-ai-agent/): Trust is a setting you choose per task. Seven rungs, three questions, and the approvals worth keeping.

## Chapters
- Introduction: Hand Over One Real Piece of Work
- 1. Write the Assignment Before You Hand It Over
- 2. Let It Look Things Up, and Check What It Found
- 3. Your First Agent: A Meeting Brief You Don't Have to Babysit
- 4. When the First Run Goes Wrong
- 5. From Meeting Notes to Follow-Through, Without Inventing Promises
- 6. Give It Your Inbox Without Giving It Your Keys
- 7. The Agent That Remembers Last Week
- 8. Work That Runs While You're Away
- 9. Letting Go of One Approval at a Time
- 10. When One Agent Isn't Enough (and When It Is)
- Conclusion: Keep the Delegations That Give You Time Back
- Appendices: The Delegation Card; The Failure Log; Boundaries pages; Platform notes (Oct 2026); Twenty tasks worth delegating next; Sources by chapter