The DeepStack Call · Part 09 · Agents
Habit Was the Moat. Agents Are Draining It.
MixedSell habit, buy the rails
Agents will drain weak consumer habits first. Back the rails (trust, records, distribution, compute), not the forgotten subscription.
ConvictionModerate
What to do with this
- Flag businesses that live on inertia: forgotten subscriptions, commodity brands, ad-funded marketplaces.
- Favor owners of trust, regulation, systems of record, distribution and compute.
- Judge agent launches on retained users, transactions and fees, never on downloads.
Next test · Oct 28, 2026Meta reports its September quarter; users, transaction volume and fees would show whether downloads are becoming a business.