The Agentic Architecture Race

The battle map published yesterday laid out the four-layer agentic stack and showed where each company stands after the OpenClaw acqui-hire. That piece mapped positions. This one maps consequences.

The Shape of the Agentic Interface

The question the battle map doesn’t answer is the one that matters most for practitioners: how do these architectural choices cascade into specific business outcomes?

A protocol advantage at the governance layer doesn’t just help Anthropic — it restructures how enterprise software is sold, how compliance budgets are allocated, and which vendors survive procurement cycles.

A consumer surface acquisition doesn’t just help OpenAI — it rewrites the economics of every business that currently depends on app-based distribution.

This follow-up connects the stack to the segments. Architecture determines economics, and economics determines who builds what for whom.

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