Vertical AI
Anything that claims to own a workflow rather than ship a feature. Bonus points for “the system of record for X.”
ResearchPublished May 15, 2026
From tokens to term sheets.
Generate a suspiciously fundable AI company — then watch the OpenAI M&A desk price it in real time.
01 / Pretraining
Sample one startup from the latent space.
Wedge
AI Thing
Market
Generated company
Latentwork Cortex
An MCP-native agent swarm for procurement officers who keep asking what the agents are actually doing.
02 / Posttraining
What will OpenAI pay to acquire it?
Our reward model was fine-tuned on every “talent and IP license” press release of the last 18 months. It is deterministic in the same sense a Series A deck is audited.
Headline number
Structure
Timing
Projected offer
$420M
03 / Executives
Staff the cap table with vibes.
04 / Disclosures
Risk factors, restated as benefits.
Appendix
Signals our model is trained on.
Agentic everything
The product is one prompt and three for loops. The pitch deck is forty slides and a Gartner quadrant.
Talent & IP license
A revenue-free acquisition phrased as a partnership. Founders join, the cap table quietly dissolves.
Forward-deployed
Engineers on-site at the customer. Headcount counts as both R&D and services depending on the meeting.