Most VCs avoided application layer believing it is too risky with few player would emerge as winner over application layers calling them GPT wrapper (now called Harness) and pouring money into infra layer. Would love to see your opinion about how this thesis would turn out going forward.
Not my experience. I think most VCs thesis is around the application layer - not much around the infrastructure.
That being said, while I am biased, there is a lot of work around infrastructure so calling it "just a wrapper" massively underestimates the effort - this is purely from my own experience building this space.
Besides, if it is true how come OpenClaw is spending so much money on a open source project. Salaries alone will cost 7 digit sum for a harness and I have first hand experience dealing with companies doing exactly this.
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Isn't just the issue stemming simply from not using the right tool? When the stakes are high and you should be checking details, the right tools are grounded Ai solutions like nouswise and notebooklm and not the general purpose chatbots that almost everyone knows they might hallucinate. I also do believe that this use case is definitely a low hanging fruit to automat a lot of manual work but it comes with new requirements like transparency to help with verifying the responses.
It would be relatively trivial to build a system that gives an LLM the tools necessary to go through each citation in a legal brief and verify its authenticity, and that's something I think opus-4.6 or gpt-5.3 could complete reliably.
leshokunin is right. there’s not at all many close app to it. Among few I could find nouswise very close and having a note driven design was a plus for me. Idk how this feels like for you.
> And there is the caveat that it runs on OpenAI LLMs, so you are not of the hook when it comes to data integrity.
I mean this is nouswise and whether they use Azure oai or direct oai they have strict privacy policy but when you look at the competitors you can not even opt out for your documents not just chats and this is Mistral
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