InsightsOut research

What is AI change doing to people and work?

We ask everyone who registers for an InsightsOut workshop three short questions. Then we read the answers against published research and publish what holds up — with the sample, the version, and what changed.

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Living papers. Updated as each wave of events lands.

What we're finding

Four things that keep showing up.

Numbers come straight from the findings ledger and update with each edition.

Research papers

Three living papers. One dataset.

Each paper shows its version, sample, and changelog, and links the numbers back to the ledger. PDFs are versioned for citation.

White paper · v1.0 · August 18, 2026 · n=363

Working Through AI Change

What 363 founders, managers, and professionals tell us before anyone surveys them

A living research paper on the human side of AI-driven change, built from InsightsOut workshop registrations and read against Gallup, Microsoft, MIT SMR, SHRM, and Anthropic.

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White paper · v1.0 · August 18, 2026 · n=363

From Overwhelm to Clarity

The founder side of AI-driven change

An early-stage room where money and customers come first, overwhelm is pace and fragmentation rather than hours, fear goes mostly unnamed, and what people quietly want is a place to think with peers.

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White paper · v1.0 · August 18, 2026 · n=363

When Your Role Starts Changing

What people navigating AI-driven role change say about identity, fear, and what they want next

Where role change is felt, who names fear and who doesn't, why people ask for a map rather than a course, and what kind of support they actually want.

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Perspectives and field notes

Shorter reads. Same point of view.

Perspective

What Changes When AI Enters the Work?

Why AI adoption must include roles, emotions, agency, leadership, and practical human responsibility.

Read → Ethics and judgment

What Should Stay Human?

A way to think about what AI can support and where judgment, responsibility, trust, and care should remain human.

Read → Field note

What the InsightsOut Event Record Shows So Far

An early view of the questions people are bringing to public conversations about AI, work, and change.

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How we do research

Small questions. Careful claims.

Full method, limits, and what we won't publish: methodology →

  1. Ask at registration. Three short questions when someone signs up for a workshop: the challenge, how AI is changing their work, what they want to leave with.
  2. Code the answers. Free text is themed by hand with a conservative mapping across events; role and segment are kept where captured.
  3. Cross-check. Every claim is read against published research and marked as consistent, extending, or in tension.
  4. Publish with a version. n, waves, date range, changelog, and a versioned PDF — updated as new waves land. Individual answers are never published.

How to cite: Imani, N. (2026). Working Through AI Change (v1.0). InsightsOut. https://insightsout.work/research/working-through-ai-change.html

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