OpenAI buys you for the workflow.

Rovo is still the best at running a sprint. To a general agent, that's one skill among thousands.

The Buyer: OpenAI will pay 30% over market. Mostly for the audit trail and the Fortune 500 contracts.

The Buyer: Engineers won't notice the handover. They stopped opening Jira in 2027.

Outcome: Lost as a feature

Specialists become skills inside generalists. Yours was the best software-team skill there was, which made it an acquisition, not a company.

One path that gets here

A · We'll sell Rovo on every seatB · Stop fighting GitHub. Open Jira to every agentB · Every ticket teaches our agent. Use thatB · Software teams only. We're the best at it

Play it yourself

Other endings where you lose as a feature

All 11 endings · The thesis