Soon your most important customer won't be a human.
It'll be an agent.
9 startups someone should build for that world:
- Agent SEO agency: when agents pick the tools, you optimize to get recommended by them, not ranked on Google
- Agent identity & permissions: every agent acting on your behalf needs a verifiable ID and a hard limit on what it can touch
- Agent receipts & audit trails: if an agent spends money or changes data, someone needs proof of exactly what it did and why
- Agent-ready docs generators: agents can't read your marketing site; they need machine-clean docs that tell them how to use you
- Agent inbox security: the moment agents send mail, you need spam filters and trust signals built for agents
- Agent-readable pricing pages: an agent can't "request a demo," so pricing has to be structured data it can parse and act on instantly
- MCP servers for franchises: every multi-location business will want one standard way to expose its data and actions to agents
- Agent support desk: when an agent gets stuck mid-task, it needs a help channel built for machines, not a human chat widget
- Sandboxes for agents to test SaaS: before an agent commits real actions, it needs a safe environment to try your product without breaking things
Pick any tool you love.
The agent version is a company.
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