ADP buys Intuit for the payroll.

The activist wins the board vote in April. Intuit is sold by June.

The Buyer: We pay America's workers. Now we'll file their taxes too. 15% below last year's price.

The Buyer: TurboTax keeps its name. It's on the paystub now, in very small print.

Outcome: Lost as a feature

You moved to billing for work a year after ChatGPT filed for free. By then the activist cared about the price, not the plan.

One path that gets here

A · We'll sell agents on every QuickBooks planC · Kill the price list now. Charge for workA · Show the board what work pricing earns

Play it yourself

Other endings where you lose as a feature

All 11 endings · The cast · The thesis