The Great Stink

Every new technology changes whose work matters.

In 1858, the flush toilet was remaking London. The night soil men lost their trade, the cesspits overflowed, and the Thames turned foul enough to drive Parliament from its own chambers. The answer was not to patch the old system but to redesign it end to end.

In The Great Stink, teams step into that same challenge with modern tools: redesigning business processes with automation and AI agents, weighing new investment against disruption, and discovering what technology change really costs, and really creates, for a workforce.