Adam Lababidi

What stops OpenAI from building this?

No matter what you're building, investors new favorite question: "What stops OpenAI from doing this?"

For @Migma AI: we operate on the software layer while OpenAI provides the foundation models. they’re pushing toward AGI, not building specialized vertical products. email requires deep integrations, brand learning, cross-client rendering, and a compiler we built in-house. OpenAI won’t spend years perfecting how 40+ email clients render html but that’s exactly our edge. Look at how they acquired @Windsurf for billions: instead of building vertical products themselves, they buy proven software players. we’re in that category.

Now tell me: what stops OpenAI and giants from doing what you're doing?

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Eric Erhardt
The answer is... Nothing stops them, but the corporations see a much bigger prize. Which is exactly to your point. Great post.
Alexandru Rada

the best answer, you're right.

We get similar questions at actordo.com and this is the single best answer.

Your market is a vertical that is too small for what OpenAI wants to do.

Sanooj Surendranath

They can but they may be focusing on the bigger more important problems like innovating on new frameworks, Agentic AI, AGI increasing partner eco systems etc. Its similar to platforms like Salesforce.

Borja DR

My point of view is that what stops OpenAI (or any giant) from launching products like yours or like Uxia that we are about to launch is focus.
They build broad infrastructure and chase AGI, not the vertical depth, integrations, and UX polish required to win in a niche or specific use case. Our moat is in the details: specialized workflows, domain knowledge, and compounding customer insights, things too small for them.... but too big to ignore for us.