Begin with the question beneath the AI promise
Who does the work after a system claims to remove it? Whose learning, health, time, water, energy, and community become invisible to the business case? The Luddite Consultant treats AI transformation as a storying and SEAM inquiry rather than a finished corporate narrative.
This book is an invitation to slow the AI promise down long enough to see what it is doing. It follows the polished stories of consulting and automation into their neglected backstage: the labor that keeps systems running, the skills being remade, the communities asked to host data infrastructure, and the lives reduced to “efficiency.” Through Sarah Calder, Nell Hart, and Rafael Ortiz—fictional composite witnesses—the book joins antenarrative, critical storytelling, and SEAM qualimetrics. Its argument is not anti-technology. It is against the convenient fiction that technology arrives without history, material cost, or someone left answerable for its consequences.
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Penn State ODC webinar
Storytelling and Organization Consulting introduces antenarrative, SEAM qualimetrics, and three AI-altered career futures in consulting, HRM/HRD, and OD. The complete Penn State slide deck is available on the book-and-slides page.
Business Storytelling in the AI Revolution
Wednesdays, October 7, 14, 21, and 28, 2026
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Series 3 convenes scholars and practitioners to examine how artificial intelligence changes narrative authority, work, ecology, inclusion, strategy, and answerability—and to develop stories that do not surrender human judgment.
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Find your AI data center footprint
Trace everyday AI touchpoints to infrastructure questions about electricity, water, land, community participation, and public evidence.
Check your AI data center complicities
Prioritize the AI infrastructure connections that warrant closer inquiry, based on services in everyday life and the communities that carry their burdens.
Reader's guide and glossary
New to antenarrative, SEAM, qualimetrics, or answerability? Begin here for plain-language explanations of the book's key terms—then return to the argument.
An inquiry, not a score
Qualimetrics brings qualitative stories, quantitative patterns, and financial evidence into relation. It does not turn a person’s life, a worker’s story, or a community’s future into a single total.