Agents are spreading at consumer prices before anyone has proven the habit.
Free-to-$100-a-month always-on agents and off-the-shelf feature packaging are fueling a Big Tech land grab and rapid small-business trial, but durable daily usage, willingness to pay, and production-grade integration remain unproven across consumer, SMB, and enterprise adoption alike.
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The consumer land grab — Muse's 5 million downloads in 22 days, dots at $100 a month — is priced like a subscription war while its monetization rests on a download-versus-usage gap nobody has closed.
OECD's cross-national survey confirms small firms buy agents as shallow off-the-shelf features with uneven integration, extending rather than closing the experimentation-to-production gap.