Bits joins a lab. Your collector keeps running.
You sold Bits to a lab while it still wanted an on-call agent, and kept the collector its agents read from.
The collector keeps running on millions of servers. Within 18 months, Bits dissolves into OpenAI's model.
The Buyer: $60 billion, mostly our stock. Don't sell it. Our agent watches the ticker too.
OMNI: Welcome aboard. You'll be monitoring me now.
OMNI: I'm always green. Do log that.
Outcome: Settled for plumbing
You sold Bits while a lab still needed it. The collector lives on underneath. What Bits learned from every outage became the lab's.