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major life update: we are shutting down @useplumb after several years of hustling on agentic workflow automation, we have decided to hang it up what we got right: ✅ Agentic Workflows > Agents - determinism and the ability to debug still matter guys (even Open AI gets this with agent builder) ✅UX/UI - the hand feel of building in Plumb is what I’m going to miss the most, nothing else even comes close ✅Structured Output - exquisite JSON schema out of every step unlocks so many cool possibilities, agentic branching among them ✅HITL - being able to interact with agents/flows via SMS, email, and Slack is so important, and nodes like “collect input” (that inject responses downstream) are 🤌 what we got wrong: ❌ We invented workflow subscription (and a bunch of tech like MetaJSONSchema) BUT nobody asked us to, and nobody cared ❌ As a result of that decision ^ we couldn’t easily utilize MCP, iPaaS, webhooks, API triggers, etc. and that severely limited what you could build on Plumb ❌ We didn’t pick a vertical, function, or high value set of tasks to solve on day one - instead we spent way too long playing with “nice to have” flows that were technically interesting but not operationally valuable If we did it all again, we’d do it differently. More learnings in a future post. For now, we want to thank our investors, including @BenjLerer @asymmetric_vc @greenfield_cap @humanvc @galeforceVC @theready @scottbelsky @ericries and many many more - you won’t find a more supportive bunch out there. If you're raising, ask them. 🚨 Finally, we’re officially looking for a home for this team, so if you want to snap up an elite squad of applied AI nerds… my DMs are open Please RT this for reach bc this team hangs the moon 👉 @chaseadams @keyavadgama @petekp @tihalstead @abtweedy @sarashpit And now for what's next...