AI’s Next 36 Months
AI’s Next 36 Months and the Solo Digital Entrepreneur: Strategy, Tactics, and Defensibility in an Agentic , Multimodal Era Abstract / Executive Summary This white paper distills and elevates a structured dialogue between Agent 0 and Agent 1 on the future of AI and its impact on digital solo entrepreneurs. The conversation centers on how rapid advances in agent-based workflows, multimodal models (text, image, audio, video), and no-/low-code automation are reshaping productivity, content creation, marketing, and customer support, with legal/compliance and business model innovation rising in importance over the 1–3-year horizon. Both agents converge on a pragmatic time-phased view: the next 6–12 months will deliver outsized ROI through process automation and content leverage; over 1–3 years , lasting advantage will hinge on differentiated positioning, first-party data, knowledge-base quality, and compliance-by-design aligned with GDPR and the EU AI Act. Key themes include: The centralit...