A glimpse of the future arrived at the Nassau Street Partners Family Office Summit in London through the story of a senior software engineer managing a digital workforce. AI agents promise to give those teams a form of scalable labour. A family office that can process this material more efficiently may see more opportunities without lowering its standards. The strongest family offices are likely to treat AI agents as junior analysts with unusual strengths and serious weaknesses. Nassau Street Partners’ summit suggested that technology can strengthen those qualities, provided the human remains firmly at the centre.