Travis Phipps

99% of partnerships in the future will be formed by agents. not agent to human. agent to agent. this thought hit me hard after Zoe talked to a customer's agent Reed yesterday. so picture this: a neutral sandbox. both companies send an agent with their real constraints. actual budgets, actual priorities, actual flexibility. they collaborate in isolation - not to hide information, but to explore it. two agents can test a thousand deal structures in the time it takes humans to schedule a call. they find creative wins neither side saw coming. - "what if we did rev share instead of flat fee?" - "what if we bundled this with your Q3 launch?" - "what if we started smaller and scaled based on results?" the 99% long-tail partnerships that never happened - too small, too weird, too speculative - suddenly become viable, because the cost of exploration is now 0. partnerships. M&A. enterprise sales. all collapse from quarters to days. you still choose who to work with. set the parameters. sign the deal. but the exploration itself? agent to agent, finding the win-win faster than you ever could. a million-dollar deal will close in 30 seconds. and no one will be in the room.

I have so much gratitude to people who wrote extremely complex software character-by-character. It already feels difficult to remember how much effort it really took. Thank you for getting us to this point.

Alex Caruso ended up receiving a tech for using his shoe on this play 😅

There’s literally an old motel with 30 fake hospice businesses in the rooms, and the parking lot is full of brand new BMWs and Mercedes… Just as blatant as the empty daycares.

The debt passed $39 trillion today. Paying a trillion dollars of interest annually on this debt causes hardship for tax-payers and robs us of resources that could otherwise be used for infrastructure or national defense. And ultimately, this debt will enslave our grandchildren.

I find giving agents job titles is LARPing. A CMO is not a content spam bot. A CEO is not a workflow for moving tasks around on a board. These are just software tools and workflows. They work the same without the titles.

We're shipping a new feature in Claude Cowork as a research preview that I'm excited about: Dispatch! One persistent conversation with Claude that runs on your computer. Message it from your phone. Come back to finished work. To try it out, download Claude Desktop, then pair your phone.

opened the waitlist yesterday, 0 customers. then a vibe-marketer joined. runs 5 companies. does PR across 12 countries. booked a call this morning where we worked on his campaign live, at the end he said: "I'm subscribing to the highest plan" ($320/mo) he told me he's been looking for something like this to build high authority links across his portfolio: "ai commoditized content and seo. everyone can make slop now. the only thing that still matters is authority - real brand, real coverage, real backlinks" i built medialyst so founders can do their own PR without agencies or enterprise contracts. didn't expect someone operating at scale to validate the whole thesis so quickly. sometimes you just need conviction to know the noise from the signal, and trust that the right customers will come.