Last month we started to notice a theme and wondered if it was here to stay.
Well, folks, we can confirm that “agentic” is still the word of the moment (and, don’t worry, we didn’t forget about you “inference”!). But after a few days of driving around the Bay Area, another pattern became hard to ignore:
Everything started to look… the same. A pattern we’ve seen before.
Same tone, same sans serif fonts, same enterprise dark blue. And in a channel where attention is scarce, that sameness becomes a liability.
The boards that stood out were the ones that broke free from this formula – they had fun with playful headlines, big photography, and took risks with lighter, brighter, and bolder colors. Now, this is what we hope to see more of in the future.
Baseten – Own your inference
Stripe – Agentic commerce
TaxGPT – AI OS for Accounting
Vercel – One stop ship
Snowflake – Loco for CoCo
Arize – Agents don’t work without evals
Airbnb – Hop-timization
Artisan – Ava 2.0
Fin – Perfect customer experiences
ChatGPT – ‘nough said
Miro – Invite your agent, too
CodeSignal – Cut time to hire in half
CoreWeave – The world’s best AI?
Canva – Tight timeline?
Delight – Our support agent is a smart AaaS
Delve – Audits are inevitable
Doppel – Imitation isn’t flattery
Doss – Built for the real world
Factory – Powered by Droids
Hive – Detect deepfakes
LangSmith – Fix your agents
CodeRabbit – AI Code = 🤯
Mercury – Radically different banking
Salesforce – Indeed helps employers hire smarter
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