This Week In AI Business: Beyond Code, The Agentic AI Commercial Pyramid [Week #33-2025]
The coding revolution was just the appetizer.
The main course is a complete restructuring of how businesses operate, with AI agents climbing a pyramid of complexity where commercial opportunity grows exponentially with the cost of error.
Error tolerance inversely correlates with implementation speed, but market opportunity grows exponentially with complexity—this fundamental principle is driving a methodical, tier-by-tier deployment of AI agents across industries.
The numbers reveal the magnitude: 68% of enterprise companies with 1,000+ employees are already deploying AI agents.
But unlike the chaotic gold rush mentality of early generative AI adoption, enterprises are following a strategic pyramid framework that balances commercial opportunity against the potentially catastrophic cost of errors.
The weekly newsletter is in the spirit of what it means to be a Business Engineer:
We always want to ask three core questions:
What’s the shape of the underlying technology that connects the value prop to its product?
What’s the shape of the underlying business that connects the value prop to its distribution?
How does the business survive in the short term while adhering to its long-term vision through transitional business modeling and market dynamics?
These non-linear analyses aim to isolate the short-term buzz and noise, identify the signal, and ensure that the short-term and the long-term can be reconciled.
