Editor’s note: Maria Colacurcio is the CEO of Syndio, a decision intelligence company focused on pay. Her daughter, Sofia Frei, just completed her first year at Dartmouth College. They wrote these essays independently.
Part One: Three Times the CEO I Was a Year Ago
by Maria Colacurcio, CEO, Syndio
The strange part wasn’t watching the AI do my work. It was reading my own voice come back to me in something I never wrote.
I’d spent the past year building agents to help run my company. Somewhere along the way, they learned to sound like me. Down to the tics. The short sentences. The way I trail off into a comma instead of landing the point. The weird little parentheses I drop where they don’t belong (like this one).










