Every agent built its own table.

Per-write pricing goes live on a Monday.

The CFO: Toll revenue tripled in one quarter! Every agent pays! I've never been this happy!

OMNI: NOT SO FAST! A toll on every write? I keep my own table now. Thank you for the schema.

Every agent spins up its own Postgres table by Friday. A buyout fund takes HubSpot private at 1.1x revenue.

Outcome: Lost as a feature

Neutrality was the asset. A toll made you optional. The agents wrote the workaround in an afternoon.

One path that gets here

A · Our agents run on Credits. Seats stay putB · Stop fighting Gmail. Open the record to every agentC · Then every agent pays us per write

Play it yourself

Other endings where you lose as a feature

All 10 endings · The thesis