Tuesday, June 9, 2026

AI and the Shrinking Firm

The way that Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing worker productivity may also be changing the optimal scale of the firm itself. According to a recent Axios report, AI-powered tools are enabling entrepreneurs to launch and operate businesses with little or no staff. Tasks that once required specialists in coding, graphic design, marketing, customer support, and bookkeeping can increasingly be performed by a single entrepreneur assisted by AI. The result is a growing number of "one-person firms" capable of generating revenue levels that previously required a small team. This contrasts with the trend since the industrial revolution in which ever more mechanization generated ever greater economies of scale and ever larger enterprises.

Some aspects of AI fit nicely into theories of the firm.

  •          Transactions costs can be reduced by engaging with AI rather than an employee.
  • AIs eliminate employee principal/agent issues.
  • However, a more personalized AI may represent a relationship-specific sunk cost that can lead to holdup.

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