Building a Moat When Everything Gets Copied

AI builders are caught in a specific double bind right now. On one side, your differentiation has a short shelf life. What you ship today gets copied in months by existing or new competitors. On the other side, your customers absorb new tools fast enough, and the gap between an impressive demo and real adoption is wide and slow.

This retreat is a focused conversation on navigating both pressures: how to build something defensible and how to drive real change inside customer organizations that are already behind on the last wave.