
This New Way · 2026-01-29 · 49 min
AI is pushing knowledge work toward a world where “leaders manage agents” - and eventually, where some management functions themselves are handled by AI. Shweta Kamble and Hari Iyer (founders of HaloVision) unpack that future and demo what it looks like today: an AI “third-party” that runs confidential 1:1-style conversations with employees, synthesizes themes into quantified “case files,” and creates a bidirectional channel between executives and the org. 00:00 - Intro 01:02 - “Undercover Boss” analogy: AI can surface ground-truth operational fixes at scale. 02:01 - “No ICs anymore”: the shift to managing armies of agents. 03:06 - AI can outperform average managers at listening, context, and coaching - at scale. 04:47 - Introducing Halo Vision: management + AI as a core intersection. 05:19 - What Halo does: confidential 1:1 conversations, analyzed into exec-ready insights. 06:00 - Key difference: not a suggestion box - Halo quantifies impact and outcomes. 06:36 - 1:1 controversy (e.g., “don’t do 1:1s”) and why time cost matters. 08:11 - Third-party confidentiality: why employees share more with Halo than internal tools.