Tom Scott

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Talking AI · Context, Control, Collaboration: Why Capability Was Never the Bottleneck · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

And I'll tell you the commonality.

It's that

Everyone wants to see a more open architecture in terms of what you are able to do with a platform.

And some companies are referring to this as a headless model, but

Whatever you want to define it as, it's how do you expose more and more of the attributes of your platform through API as a way to expose tools for that MCP context, correct?

And that is a common thread on practically every customer I talk to is that there is a great deal of interest there in that.

That is something that we are investing in our platform to continue extending that capability.

The next part is I do think there are a lot of customers that are going to want to bring their own model and bring their own agents.

And they require that in terms of working with that architecture that I was just describing.

And that's a function of the fact that A, a lot of the bigger customers have relationships with model providers where they've got tokens that they've already purchased or broader tool sets that they are trying to build out.

And we're going to work with them and enable that.

The other point though is

you can still create a better experience inside the application for some use cases.

And the reason for that

Think of it as creating a more custom harness for what you are doing inside rank or whatever your SaaS application is.

And on some use cases that are just very core to the workflows or the use cases that you are supporting,

I expect that you are going to see those agents be better suited for some of those use cases.

And that is where we're spending our time as well.

And by working, we're still going to be leveraging those same tools that I was talking about in terms of opening up from an API standpoint.

So we'll be calling on that same thing.

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