A case for composable, interoperable, standards driven agents replacing buy-it-all XXL enterprise solutions.
The enterprise solution waters are muddy.
The Problem
Many enterprise solution builders are slapping AI on their current offering. Some are focused on innovative accounting, so the entry barrier seems lower than the competition but the user gets trapped into paying higher later, after burning out 'credits'. Neither approach is sustainable for the solution builder nor beneficial for the user.
A New Perspective To Selling Software
A far better opportunity lies in creating composable, interoperable agents that have their own wallet, a shared standard security protocol and configurable constraints. To be fair, this is not a new idea. Satya Nadella hinted at this future back in '25.
Where do we stand with standards
Anthropic donated the Model Context Protocol to the Agentic AI Foundation (a Linux Foundation offshoot). There are signs that the big boys are starting to realize there's more to gain by working together towards interoperability standard than holding back developments with a winner-takes-all approach.