Hard Tech Startups
How hard tech startups are reshaped as AGI capability advances.
Business-as-Code
Read as an executable program — the work decomposed into Code, Generative, Agentic, and Human.
Decomposed as an executable program, Hard Tech Startups runs 4 core processes — each a candidate for the Code / Generative / Agentic / Human split, with the agentic and code-shaped steps the first to come off human headcount.
The operating model of Hard Tech Startups resolves to 7 concrete tasks. Sorted into Code / Generative / Agentic / Human, this task ledger is exactly where the automation frontier is drawn.
Hard Tech Startups sits inside a larger value-flow — 1 parent structure it composes into. The hierarchy is grounding, not the story: it tells you which aggregate exposure Hard Tech Startups inherits.
Services-as-Software
The outcomes here that AI agents now deliver directly, where revenue scales with compute, not headcount.
Autonomous Agents as digital employees
Which of this work becomes digital labor — performed under typed authority, promoted to autonomy on track record.
Hard Tech Startups staffs 7 job types — the roles that, decomposed to tasks, are first in line to run as supervised-then-autonomous digital labor.
The problems this exposes
Node-intrinsic problems read straight off the graph (exposesProblem) — the evergreen wedges a builder could take into this space.
Where Hard Tech Startups sits
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