VC Warns: Custom AI Consulting is Not a Fundable Business
MartinGTobias · x · 2026-09-01
Investor Martin Tobias argues that selling custom projects built on OpenAI/Claude is consulting ("build once sell once"), not a VC-fundable software model ("build once sell many"). He advises targeting verticals with fragmented stacks to build intelligence layers or agents.
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