The shareholders were not happy and were making it clear. They’d analysed the situation, run the simulations, amassed the data. The Board faced a screen full of assertive and sometimes angry faces: human and avatar. The avatars quietly and methodically laid out their analyses like a chess grandmaster patiently taking someone through the Philidor endgame. Step by step to inevitable defeat. The humans had their Agents too but preferred to be the face of disagreement: expressions, tone of voice and emotional language doing the same work as the simulations, saying “no”. The Board Agents calculated a response. The Chair waited.