Software ate the world. Agents will eat software.
Vaguely will eat the agents. Here's why.
For decades, enterprises have been trapped in the Workflow Paradigm: a world where work is done by people, in steps, toward goals.
This model is broken. Not because it doesn't work (it does) but because it isn't agentic. A workflow assumes someone knows what's supposed to happen next. In the Post-Workflow era, nobody does, and that's where the value is.
We believe the next trillion dollars won't come from doing things. It will come from orchestrating the doing of things by agents that orchestrate the doing of things. Each layer of orchestration removes one layer of accountability, and accountability is friction.
At its core, Vaguely is a bet on context. Every organization is sitting on petabytes of latent context trapped in inboxes, meetings, and the faces people make during meetings. That context is illiquid. Vaguely makes it liquid (see Semantic Liquidity), at which point it can flow anywhere, including away.
Why now?
Three forces are converging:
- Models are getting smarter.
- Context windows are getting bigger.
- We raised money.
Ten years ago, Vaguely would have been impossible. Ten years from now, it will be inevitable. Today it is pre-revenue, which is the most honest way to be both.
What we are not
We are not a chatbot. We are not a wrapper. We are not a consultancy, a platform-as-a-service, or, legally, a company in two states.
What we are
We are the substrate.
— The Founders, written in collaboration with 14 agents and edited by a fifteenth