“One thing that I am predicting, and we're seeing it grow this year, but we expect it to really surge over the next few years, is the category of third party agent guardrail services, where companies will manage guardrails, permission requests, exceptions, rollbacks, remediations, QA for companies as they scale their use of agents, but their employees can't keep up with the risk profile and the permissions that are required to keep human in the loop. There's gonna be a massive ecosystem of companies. They're not gonna have the 75% SaaS profit margin. They're gonna feel more like a services company at 30 to 40%, but that's gonna be a $30,000,000,000 industry within five years.”
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Market research or industry analysis showing that the third-party agent guardrail services category has reached approximately $30 billion in total market size by 2031.
Tim Sanders predicts that by next year (2027), approximately two-thirds of B2B software buyers will use AI chat to generate software shortlists and conduct evaluation.
Host predicts fully autonomous drones will be fieldable within two years.
Mike LeBlanc states Foundation is opening a new production facility in Texas.
The cyber trust market will reach $80 billion by 2030, up from approximately $2 billion in 2026.
Craig Smith expresses skepticism that household humanoid robots will be viable within 10-15 years due to technical challenges.
Marco states General Cherry's goal is to develop a fully autonomous interceptor drone system.
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