Webinar: AI Juggernauts Are Compressing the Stack
Softlandia
57:55
A live webinar on the Supply Chain of Intelligence™ framework, AI compression, rising dependency economics, and how founders should reposition before their layer gets absorbed.
Who This Is For
Founders, CEOs, CTOs, product leaders, and AI teams building:
- SaaS products
- AI-native applications
- copilots
- workflow automation platforms
- enterprise AI tools
- agentic systems
The Core Problem
Most AI companies are competing on features while the real battle is happening deeper in the stack.
As AI juggernauts expand upward:
- models absorb workflows
- platforms bundle capabilities
- surfaces commoditize
- margins compress
- dependency costs rise across the ecosystem
Many founders still cannot clearly answer:
- Where does our product actually sit in the AI stack?
- Which layers are becoming commodities?
- Where does durable value accrue?
- What happens if the layers beneath us absorb our functionality?
- What compounds over time in our product?
- Are we building defensibility — or renting intelligence?
Most products sit higher in the stack than they realize.
This webinar introduces a structural framework for understanding where AI value is created, where products become vulnerable, and how companies can reposition before compression accelerates.
What You’ll Learn
The Supply Chain of Intelligence™
A practical framework for understanding how modern AI products are structured across:
- infrastructure
- models
- execution
- orchestration
- surfaces
- trust systems
- and institutional memory
You’ll learn:
- where your company sits
- which layers are exposed
- which layers compound
- where durable moats still exist
The AI Compression Wave
Why:
- model providers
- hyperscalers
- platform ecosystems
- AI-native incumbents
are increasingly compressing companies above them in the stack.
We’ll explore:
- how compression works
- why some products become features
- why others compound
- how value migrates across layers over time
The Hidden Economics of AI Dependency
AI costs are no longer just about tokens.
Founders are increasingly exposed to:
- usage-based pricing shifts
- orchestration overhead
- inference dependency
- retrieval costs
- memory persistence
- verification complexity
- upstream pricing pressure
Every layer beneath you in the stack increasingly influences the economics of the layer above you.
We’ll discuss:
- who gets squeezed hardest
- why
- what structural moves reduce long-term exposure
Where Defensibility Still Exists
Not all layers are equally vulnerable.
We’ll explore where durable value is still accumulating:
- domain execution
- workflow ownership
- orchestration
- verification systems
- institutional memory
- embedded organizational intelligence
Live Company Mapping (If time permits)
We’ll also analyze real companies through the framework, including examples like:
- OpenAI
- Microsoft
- Gamma
- Cursor
- Harvey
and examine:
- where they sit
- where they’re expanding
- what they own
- where compression risk exists
What You’ll Leave With
→ A clear understanding of where your product sits in the AI stack
→ A structural lens for evaluating defensibility and compression risk
→ A better understanding of AI dependency economics and pricing pressure
→ A roadmap for where your company should move next to become harder to replace
→ A shared vocabulary for discussing AI strategy internally with product, engineering, and leadership teams
Speakers
Anand Arivukkarasu
Ex-Meta product leader, startup advisor, and investor.
Anand helped scale products at Facebook and Instagram and later helped build unicorn-stage startups. He created the Supply Chain of Intelligence™ framework to map where AI value accrues, where companies become vulnerable, and how founders can build structurally defensible AI products.
Ilmo Lounasmaa
Founder & CEO, Softlandia
AI venture architect and product strategist helping SaaS teams design and scale AI-native products and systems globally. Known for his ability to bring out the best in people and cut through complexity, Ilmo drives Softlandia’s mission to help SaaS companies build production-ready AI that scales—no black boxes, no hand-offs, just solutions that last.
Webinar: AI Juggernauts Are Compressing the Stack
57:55