I’m Marc Ragsdale
I have spent my entire career building the framework for the Autonomous Organization.
Since 1998, I’ve been obsessed with one question: How can we build organizations that run themselves? Over my career, this led me to develop the Ragsdale Framework for Autonomous Organizations, which encodes structure and supervision directly into software by combining the stability of legacy systems with the adaptability of AI. I used Prospus as my lab to test and refine these ideas, and now I’m implementing them through Kaamfu into a unified work system that bridges people and intelligent agents to create a truly autonomous enterprise.
My personal platform for exploring ideas, philosophy, and thought leadership on building the autonomous organization.
The foundation of models and principles I created to guide organizations in their transition toward autonomy.
Read My Research
Learn how I am simultaneously researching, developing, and commercializing the first autonomous organization.
I am developing the RFAO as a research program to guide organizations from human dependent systems to AI enabled autonomy. It combines models, technical guidance, and data validation to give scholars and practitioners a practical path forward. My focus is on providing small and medium sized enterprises an actionable plan for autonomy.
Follow my series on the Race to Autonomy
Autonomy is no longer a distant vision. It is the race already underway. While the headlines focus on AI labs and self driving cars, the real contest is happening inside every company, industry, and institution. In this series I break down what the race truly is, where the finish line lies, and how leaders can prepare their organizations to compete and win.
Ken Talyor and his book “Working in Slippers”
I recently discovered Ken Taylor, author of Working in Slippers: Virtual Companies and the New Normal, and was struck by his challenge to leaders resisting remote work. He argues that remaining office-bound is no longer neutral—it’s a strategic liability—and that remote companies, when structured well, consistently outperform traditional ones. His…
The power of knowing
For most of my career, I ran companies without truly knowing what was happening. Work was scattered across tools, and decisions were made on incomplete information. I built Kaamfu to change that. Kaamfu gives leaders total, real-time awareness of their entire operation in one intelligent workspace. When you finally know…
Building the road miles ahead
Kaamfu was built for the next decade, not the next milestone. While most platforms were designed for short-term needs and fragmented tools, Kaamfu was engineered for long-term awareness and control. By investing early in forward-looking architecture we have built the hidden infrastructure that enables true organizational visibility. These long-term investments…
Bringing order to startup investment: a unified model for true company value
Startup investment is more than cash. It includes time, effort, assets, and sacrifices that rarely appear on a cap table. To bring order to this complexity, I created a unified model where every contribution is assigned a clear dollar value. This transforms all inputs into a single, measurable metric of…
Building the investor room
The Kaamfu Investor Plugin turns investor relations into a living, transparent experience. Instead of quarterly reports or filtered updates, investors gain direct access to the same real-time data and insights our leadership team uses to run the company. Within a secure space on the Kaamfu website, they can track performance,…
A lifetime building the path to work autonomy
For more than 25 years, I have been building the path to organizational autonomy. Through my self-funded research, I developed the Ragsdale Framework for Autonomous Organizations and created the first Autonomous Operating Environment, Kaamfu. Built through my agency, Prospus, Kaamfu unifies tools, teams, and AI to help organizations operate with…