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AI will not replace the Chief of Staff in serious companies. It will change how the role scales. The work that benefits most is context-heavy, memory-heavy, and preparation-heavy: meeting notes, decision logs, briefing packets, follow-up tracking, operating reviews, and risk summaries. The weak version is an AI Chief of Staff
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