Block fired 4,000 people. WiseTech is cutting 2,000. The market cheered. At EntityFlo, we're making a different bet — AI as infrastructure that unleashes your people, not replaces them.
Last week, Block — the fintech behind Square and Cash App — fired over 4,000 people. Nearly half its workforce. CEO Jack Dorsey's message to shareholders was direct: "intelligence tools have changed what it means to build and run a company." Investors sent the stock up 24%.
Days earlier, Australian logistics software company WiseTech Global announced it would cut 2,000 jobs — 29% of its team — over the next two years. Same reason. Same result. Market cheered.
The narrative is spreading fast. AI is coming for headcount. And companies are under mounting pressure to show they can do more with less — by removing people from the equation.
We think that's the wrong equation entirely.
At EntityFlo, we've been running AI agents from the moment we started building — not as a replacement strategy, but as infrastructure. From day zero, agents handle the low-level, high-impact work: the administrative grind that eats professional hours and adds zero strategic value.
That frees our people to focus on what actually moves the needle. Relationships. Strategy. Decisions that require human judgment.
The agents handle the rest — fast, accurate, and tireless. But our people are always in control. Every output is visible, auditable, and overridable. This isn't autonomous AI running unchecked. It's a team of capable digital colleagues with the right tools and clear accountability.
When you cut headcount and hand the work to AI, you lose institutional knowledge, relationship depth, and the judgment that only comes from experience. When you give your people AI as infrastructure, you amplify everything they already are.
The governance and compliance space has always had one core problem: the work that keeps the lights on is not the work that moves the business forward. Company secretaries, CFOs, and general counsels spend disproportionate time on tasks that are critical but largely mechanical. That's not a people problem. That's a tooling problem.
Fix the tooling. Keep the people. Give them back their time.
Most companies treating AI as a headcount hack are giving their agents the bare minimum to function. We treat ours like the invaluable employees they are — developer-grade tools, proper infrastructure, clear scope. The quality of your tooling defines the quality of your outcomes.
The shortcuts you take with your AI agents today become the ceiling on what your business can do tomorrow.
The companies using EntityFlo aren't looking to downsize their governance teams. They're looking to make those teams more powerful. A Company Secretary managing 40 entities shouldn't be fighting spreadsheets. They should be advising directors, managing risk, and building better governance frameworks.
EntityFlo handles the weight — compliance monitoring, entity registers, filing workflows, ownership maps. All automated, all accurate, all under the direct control of the people responsible for the outcome.
The result isn't a smaller team. It's a team that punches ten times above its weight.
Block and WiseTech made a rational bet for companies under pressure. We respect it.
We're just making a different one: the companies that win long-term won't be the ones who replaced their people with AI. They'll be the ones who gave their people AI — and got out of the way.
Build for the work, not the hype.
Nathan Carroll is the founder and CEO of [EntityFlo](https://entityflo.com). With multiple successful exits and experience scaling SaaS companies globally, Nathan is building the future of corporate governance for Australian businesses. [Connect on LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/nathan-carroll-32b98231).
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