The gold rush killed most miners. It made Levi Strauss rich.
AI agents are today's gold rush. Data moats are the denim.
The Moat Stack:
1. Agent layer → commoditizes in 12-18 months (every framework converges)
2. Workflow layer → moderate moat (integrations are copyable)
3. Data layer → permanent moat (compounds with every interaction)
The proof is already here.
Salesforce Agentforce: $540M ARR, 330% YoY growth, 18,500 deals closed in one year. Not because their AI is better because enterprises already feed them CRM data daily. Every interaction makes the moat deeper.
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