

Krinal Mehta
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@krinal
The rank-and-click era is ending. I write about what replaces it. | Director of SEO @bluehost @yoast @hostgator | AEO + Vector based growth



Today, we’re launching the @link wallet for agents. It lets you securely empower agents to spend on your behalf. Your payment credentials are never exposed and you approve every purchase. link.com/agents


Agent Mode is here in Outlook! Copilot can now help run your inbox and calendar, triaging emails, rescheduling meetings, and helping you stay on top of what matters most.



And it's gone! Google removed GEO Partner Manager job role page 😄





Exa now reduces input tokens for web agents by 96%. We trained a text extraction "Highlights" model to dynamically select only the most relevant tokens from a webpage, for a given query. Only 500 tokens of highlights are needed to match the RAG performance of a full 10K token webpage. We find Highlights to be particularly useful for frontier models like GPT 5.5, where content density enables longer horizon tasks by preventing context bloat. You can use it today by using the "highlights" content type in our API!


There’s $1T up for grabs for agent-first startups and this window is WIDE open. Probably 10,000+ niches. How it plays out: 1. Every SaaS company follows salesforce and goes headless within 18 months 2. a new category of "agent-native" startups emerges that treat salesforce, HubSpot, workday etc as dumb backends. the startup IS the agent. the SaaS is just the database. 3. the entire consulting/services industry around enterprise SaaS gets compressed into software. the agent replaces the implementation team. 4. outcome-based pricing becomes default. nobody pays per seat when the "seat" is an agent making 10,000 API calls a minute. you pay when revenue hits your account. 5. the winning founders are ex-operators who understand a vertical workflow cold. the code is the easy part. knowing that a property manager spends 14 hours a week on lease renewals? that's the insight worth $100M. 6. distribution becomes the moat. when anyone can wire agents to APIs, the company with the audience and the brand wins. media + agents is the new SaaS. There’s a rush to incubate live/short form shows. 7. Silicon Valley goes all influencer. Roy lee gets this. Pat Walls gets this. Sam Parr gets this. 8. the first $1B agent-native company in each vertical will look nothing like the SaaS it replaced. smaller team, higher margins, no implementation cost, no churn from bad UX because there is no UX. the fastest path to wealth right now: find an industry that still runs on dashboards, phone calls, and spreadsheets. build the agent-native version. charge per outcome. own the workflow end-to-end. someone reading this right now is going to build a $100M company off this exact shift. tell me about it on the @startupideaspod when you do. Im rooting for you. Less reading, less bookmarking, more building. the last wave rewarded people who built pretty interfaces on top of ugly data. I think this wave rewards people who build smart agents on top of exposed APIs. Or who just build the APIs themselves Here we go