Forty-one bids came in. Ten were read. All forty-one were approved.
Volume 1
Cheap to Make,
Costly to Check
How AI shifts the real cost of decisions — and who in your organization ends up paying it.
Rank 19: never read, fourteen years in the building
The argument
A purchasing system ranks forty-one bids in seconds. The buyer spends two days on the first ten. All forty-one are approved. The file records a human decision.
What a system produces has become almost free. What it takes to check that output, and to answer for it, costs what it always did. The difference lands somewhere — and in most organizations, nobody decided where.
This book puts a name and a number on that leftover, and asks the two questions about it: who owns it, and can they carry it? The most expensive errors sit where those two answers meet — where someone may decide but has no time to, and where nobody looks.
It is a book for leaders responsible for decisions that are increasingly prepared by systems they did not choose, cannot fully inspect, and may still have to defend.
What is on this site
- Sources All ninety-one references, chapter by chapter, each with its type: what was measured, on whom, and what limits the finding.
- Claims Twenty-two assertions the book makes, how well each is supported, and what would refute it. Anyone who refutes one is doing the author a favor.
- Tools The eleven tools and the twenty-six handholds, with the chapter each is built in and the time each takes.
- Law The legal instruments the book relies on, with the date each was last checked. A book's legal position ages; this page says how far.
How it is built
Five parts. Part One prices the checking. Part Two asks who owns the decision. Part Three asks whether they can actually carry it. Part Four takes the seam where both orders meet. Part Five is the toolkit.
One case runs through the whole book: a machine builder, a buyer, forty-one bids, and the supplier who called to ask where he lost it. The people are composite figures. The mechanisms recur; the names and numbers do not.
No footnotes. Where a finding comes from someone else's work, the name is in the sentence and the full reference is on this site.
The book
| Paperback | 222 pages, 6 × 9 inches · $24.95 ISBN 979-8-1726-1955-7 |
| Kindle | $9.99 |
| Publisher | Bosbach Edition, published independently |
| Series | Organization under AI, Volume One |
Both editions are sold through Amazon. The German edition, Wer prüft, zahlt, appears separately at organisation-unter-ki.de.
How this book was made
The German edition was written by the author. This English edition was written directly in English by an AI system, working from the author's German manuscript, his research, and his decisions on every question of substance. The author reviewed and revised the result and is responsible for it. Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing has been notified accordingly.
That statement is in the book itself, not only in a form. A book that argues about who answers for machine-produced work has to say how it was produced.