A realtor is a conversational agent with a database. Take requirements, query inventory, present options, close. Strip away the business cards and the open houses and that's what's left — a system. The same is true for an insurance broker. A quoting desk. A physician dispatch service. Any role where a human sits between a customer and a catalog.

I've spent seven years proving this. Two IPOs, a Slack liquidity event, a decade of global corporate and venture work — then I walked away from all of it to build one of the largest apartment locating operations in the US. 30,000 leads a day, processed largely by AI systems I built solo. No engineering team. We hit 97% contribution margins in an industry where 20% is considered good. The humans who remain handle phone calls and apartment tours. Everything else is machine.

Ben Thompson wrote about Amazon building logistics infrastructure for itself, then opening it to the world. That's the path I'm on. After years of saying no to inbound inquiries about our technology, I'm opening it up for conversation. I don't have a pitch deck. I don't have a pricing page. I have seven years of production systems that work, and I'm curious what happens when other people see them.

I don't know where this leads. That's the point.