---
id: "action-create-ai-architect-role"
type: "action-item"
source_timestamps: ["§ Relieving the Pressure: How Leaders Can Reduce Workslop"]
tags: ["hiring", "organizational-design"]
related: ["concept-forward-deployed-ai-architect", "framework-system-level-response"]
speakers: ["Kate Niederhoffer", "Alexi Robichaux", "Jeffrey T. Hancock"]
action: "Hire or designate 'AI collaboration architects' to tailor AI tools to human workflows."
outcome: "Bridges the gap between high-level AI strategy and on-the-ground employee execution."
sources: ["adoption"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-adoption"
originDay: 9
articleStem: "hbr-edu-38-ai-workslop"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2026/01/why-people-create-ai-workslop-and-how-to-stop-it"
sourceTitle: "Why People Create AI “Workslop”—and How to Stop It"
---
# Create AI Collaboration Architect Roles

**Action:** Hire or designate '[[concept-forward-deployed-ai-architect|AI collaboration architects]]' to tailor AI tools to human workflows.

Organizations should design and hire for a new role — forward deployed AI collaboration architects — fluent in both technology and human relationships, tasked with locating friction and tailoring AI integration to actual employee workflows. This implements the **Accountability** layer of [[framework-system-level-response]].

**Expected outcome:** Bridges the gap between high-level AI strategy and on-the-ground employee execution.