Nathaniel Whittemore

He argues that there's a trillion dollars up for grabs for agent-first startups as every SaaS company follows Salesforce and goes headless within 18 months.

He argues that a new category of agent-native startups will emerge that treat the Salesforce's and HubSpot's and Workday's as, in his words, dumb backends.

The startup is the agent, he says.

The SaaS is just the database.

And yet I will point out, for those of you who are sitting there feeling like, what role do humans have in this?

I would point you to another news report from earlier this week around OpenAI working with firms including Accenture, Capgemini, and PwC to help sell Codex to businesses.

Aaron Levy again writes, The real world will need a ton of help actually getting agents going in the enterprise.

Companies have legacy tech stacks they need to modernize, data and tons of fragmented tools, knowledge that isn't captured or digitized, and change management needed to actually utilize agents effectively.

And they all have to do this while actually running their business day-to-day, unlike startups.

This is why there is so much opportunity for companies, software, or services to actually deploy agents in specific domains and workflows.

This remains a big opportunity for both existing service providers, but also tons of new startups as well.

Every new technology wave produces a new era of consulting firms that can deliver on that technology.

That's also why the FTE model is going to be alive and well for a long time, because companies will want to have their vendor actually help drive the change management and implementation for their new workflows.

The people aren't going away.

Far from it.

So friends, I think headless is probably a word you will hear a lot more on this show as these trends evolve.

For now though, that is going to do it for today's AI Daily Brief.

Appreciate you listening or watching as always.

And until next time, peace.

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