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## Segment 6 — agentic

## Article 28 — a028

# Mark Purdy

**Profile:** Author of the source article and co-founder and director of **Beacon Thought Leadership**, an independent advisory firm focused on research and content development at the intersection of technology, economics, and business. Per enrichment, his canonical references are his Harvard Business Review author page and the Beacon Thought Leadership site; he is a technology–economics thought leader who writes on AI, productivity, and macroeconomic implications.

**Role in source:** Primary author and argument-builder. He frames the thesis (homogeneous agentic teams are a systemic trap), assembles the evidence, and prescribes the [[framework-seven-imperatives]].

**Attributed contributions in this vault:**
- Reports the adoption figures in [[claim-rapid-agent-adoption]] (citing [[entity-bob-sternfels]] and [[entity-jensen-huang]]).
- States the performance dividends in [[claim-diversity-improves-performance]] and [[claim-two-diverse-beats-sixteen]] (verbatim in [[quote-two-beats-sixteen]]).
- Cites the WEIRD-bias research in [[claim-weird-bias]].
- Authors the [[framework-seven-imperatives]] and its action items.
- Curates expert commentary from [[entity-enver-cetin]].