We carry a lot of baggage about what a "Company" looks like: Offices, HR, water coolers, meetings. These are not the business; they are the overhead required to run a business with humans. A business, in its purest form, is a Value Delivery System. AI allows us to build the system without the baggage.
The Minimalist Definition
A Business is a set of instructions (SOPs) that transforms an input (Money/Time) into an output (Value) with a margin.
Everything else—branding, culture, real estate—is secondary.
The 3 Components
1. The Offer
The promise you make. (A human must design this).
2. The Mechanism
The machine that fulfills the promise. (AI can do this).
3. The Distribution
How people find the promise. (Content/Media).
Short Answer
When you strip away the office, the commute, and the politics, you are left with the raw economics of value exchange. AI works at this layer.