The AI startup that put “Stop Hiring Humans” on billboards accused of stealing the artwork used to sell that pitch itself!
We track every new Microsoft Dynamics 365 and NetSuite job posting across North America, every single day, and October gave us the clearest read yet on where this market is actually heading. The short version is that ERP hiring cooled about 11% from September. That headline is true, and it is also misleading. Almost the entire drop sits in the Dynamics implementation tracks, while NetSuite held flat and demand for senior, in-house talent stayed strong. Whether this market feels soft or busy right now depends entirely on which role you are trying to fill. I pulled the full track by track breakdown into this month’s DynamicsFocus Recruiting Report, and it is attached below. If you have a role that has been sitting open since the summer, I would genuinely love to hear what you have tried so far and am more than happy to schedule a 30 minute Teams call to share potential strategies to rectify the situation, no strings attached. #MicrosoftDynamics #D365 #Dynamics365 #NetSuite #ERP #NetSuiteRecruiting #MicrosoftDynamicsRecruiting #TalentMarket #Hiring #AIAgents
November 6, 2026
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Artisan ran a campaign featuring KC Green’s “This is fine” comic. Green says they used it without permission.
How is that for Irony? But there’s a real lesson here for the people I work with every day.
For PE and VC operating partners running ERP-heavy portfolios: when an AI vendor’s own operations cut corners, ask harder questions before you let one rewrite your distribution company’s headcount strategy. The downstream cost of a bad bet here is measured in failed implementations, not just license fees.
For Dynamics and NetSuite leaders staffing real work: a Business Central rollout, a CE migration, an F&O cutover. None of these survive on prompt engineering. They need senior functional judgment; the kind that earns a CFO’s trust at 9 PM during go-live week.
And for everyone watching the broader market, Nicolas Sauvage’s thesis (profiled in TechCrunch this week) captures it well: he’s been quietly betting on the boring parts of AI since 2019, the infrastructure layer that’s only now becoming fashionable.
Meanwhile Amazon just opened its global logistics network to every business in the country, putting fresh pressure on every distributor and 3PL to modernize the stack underneath them.
The “stop hiring humans” thesis collapses fastest exactly where the work is hardest. That’s still the place where experienced people earn their fee.