The SMB process-data gold rush: 1M businesses selling know-how to RL environment companies
willcb · x · 2026-10-27
willcb predicts a massive data economy: 1 million SMBs could each sell their process knowledge for $100k+ to thousands of data brokers, hundreds of RL environment companies and dozens of labs — a market he sizes at $100T. The claim is hyperbolic but points at a real trend: proprietary workflow data is becoming scarce feedstock for RL environments.
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