The road routed around you.
Per-read pricing lasts one quarter. Then the agents start caching every file and permission they touch.
OMNI: You billed them to read their own data. So I kept a copy.
Reads fall 80 percent. Private equity buys Box at 0.9 times revenue.
Outcome: Lost as a feature
Neutrality was the asset. You sold it for a toll. The agents copied your data and skipped it.
One path that gets here
A · We'll sell our own agent on every seatB · Look at logins. Open the store to every agentC · Charge every agent per read