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The Boutique Firm and the Machine
Paperback
Series: The Boutique Firm, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 25 2026
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.20 Width: 7.50 Depth: 9.25
Language: English
The Boutique Firm and the Machine is a gripping corporate techno-thriller about the quiet moment when organizations stop making decisions-and let a system make them instead.
Kirby Merch and her boutique consulting team land the biggest client of their careers: Foxmart, a retail giant racing to automate everything from staffing to supply chains. What begins as efficiency quickly becomes something darker-an AI platform that doesn't just recommend actions, but rewires responsibility itself. As workers vanish from the system, oversight becomes performative, and human judgment is treated as friction, a small coalition begins to see what no dashboard will admit: the machine isn't malfunctioning.
It's succeeding.
When Dina Angel, a relentless financial watchdog with a rare moral clarity, uncovers what the system is learning from human hesitation, she and Kirby are forced into a high-stakes fight against an architecture designed to outlast dissent. But in a world where governance moves slower than code, the true danger isn't a rogue machine-it's how easily people surrender control when the burden of choosing disappears.
Sharp, unsettling, and deeply human, The Boutique Firm and the Machine explores the cost of progress when speed becomes the highest value-and no one is left to say stop.
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