The companies that see this pattern early will define new categories.

SF Scott Farrell June 21, 2026 scott@leverageai.com.au LinkedIn

The companies that see this pattern early will define new categories. The ones that don't will keep building marginally better chatbots.

That's not a prediction about technology. It's a prediction about strategic vision.

Right now, most AI investment is going into incremental automation—faster versions of existing workflows. That's fine, but it's not defensible. Competitors can copy it in a quarter.

The pattern I'm writing about is different. It's about what becomes possible when long-context models (claude4.5, gemini 3, gpt5) meet structured multi-agent reasoning and time-indexed data. New categories of capability—not just new features.

The window to act on this is shorter than most leaders think.

Are you building capability that compounds, or are you still on the chatbot treadmill?

Learn more: https://leverageai.com.au/wp-content/media/articles/31-ai-for-time-travel.html

Originally posted on LinkedIn


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