KNIC Ventures
Writing on AI, agentic systems, and the commercial dynamics they create — grounded in production reality rather than prediction.
Read the writingI'm Nathan Krisanski. I'm Head of Technology at The Agency, a national Australian premium real estate brand, and the founder of KNIC Ventures. Fifteen-odd years in PropTech, including founding and exiting HomePrezzo.
Most of what gets written about AI is written from the outside looking in. I'm writing from the other position — actually deploying agents into workflows where the consequences are real, the budgets are finite, and someone has to answer when it goes sideways. That vantage point produces different questions than the ones being asked at conferences.
These pieces are an attempt to name the dynamics I keep running into before the industry gets around to naming them.
A handful of problems keep surfacing across the work. Naming them properly is most of the battle.
The unclear zone that opens when an agent does the work but a person stays answerable for it.
Agent economics tie cost to results, not hours. That breaks every model built on headcount.
Per-seat pricing assumed one human per seat. Agents invalidated the assumption.
Vendor lock-in through API gatekeeping — and what shifts when agents can use software like people do.
Human and machine teams need a management layer that doesn't exist on any org chart yet.
Consumption-based AI costs invert the old shelfware risk. Enthusiasm is now the failure mode.