Your Best Partner in the Agentic Era Is One You Can't Measure
How do you measure a partnership in the agentic era, when the one choosing your product isn't a person anymore, but an AI?
I've closed more than 75 partnerships per edition of Blockchain Jungle and run the pipeline at other startups I've worked for, so I know what you're supposed to count to prove one worked. Here's the problem: your most important partner in 2026 never signed a contract, doesn't take your calls, and just made the thing we count stop mattering.
The shift
A person used to choose what to build with, and that person was who you were trying to win over. Now someone tells an AI "build me an app" and it picks the database, the auth, the hosting before a human weighs in on anything. The choice is made, and you weren't in the room.
So the whole field is racing to be what the AI...
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