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Buy the Rails, Build the Agents
Acquire the slow infrastructure, build the fast intelligence.
How it works
- 1Separate your product into rails, meaning data access, connections, and security, and intelligence, meaning the agents on top.
- 2Rails take years and regulatory relationships. Buy them, ideally from well-backed companies whose timing was wrong.
- 3Agents are where your speed and your differentiation live. Build those.
- 4Audit your category for assets stranded inside companies that raised too early. There are more of them every quarter.
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