Gushwork Launches Platform for AI Agents to Buy High-Value Industrial Goods
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Everyone is using agents for writing code and emails, but few people are looking at some of the largest opportunities that exist: Companies are still buying $200,000 worth of equipment parts over the phone. The physical economy doesn't move online. You can't add custom parts to a shopping cart and pay with your credit card. You have to make 12 phone calls and talk to people. Software is barely involved in all of this. These guys are taking a stab at this: They built a platform that makes these shops accessible to AI buyer agents: when an agent is looking for a custom part, it reaches out to the shop, reads the spec, and returns a quote. There's a ton of money here.
Today we launch the next chapter of Gushwork. Over the last 30 years, we saw commerce moving online - But what actually moved online were low value retail products: books, clothing, electronics. Anything high value, from $5,000 to $1M - a hydraulic crane, an industrial roofing contract, a heat shrink machine - still runs predominantly on human buyer seller conversations. And conversation was the one thing software couldn't do. That just changed. We are bringing 35 million sellers of high value products & services in the physical economy to the agentic web - One of the largest categories of commerce that barely moved online in the internet before AI.
Everyone is using agents for writing code and emails, but few people are looking at some of the largest opportunities that exist: Companies are still buying $200,000 worth of equipment parts over the phone. The physical economy doesn't move online. You can't add custom parts to a shopping cart and pay with your credit card. You have to make 12 phone calls and talk to people. Software is barely involved in all of this. These guys are taking a stab at this: They built a platform that makes these shops accessible to AI buyer agents: when an agent is looking for a custom part, it reaches out to the shop, reads the spec, and returns a quote. There's a ton of money here.
Today we launch the next chapter of Gushwork. Over the last 30 years, we saw commerce moving online - But what actually moved online were low value retail products: books, clothing, electronics. Anything high value, from $5,000 to $1M - a hydraulic crane, an industrial roofing contract, a heat shrink machine - still runs predominantly on human buyer seller conversations. And conversation was the one thing software couldn't do. That just changed. We are bringing 35 million sellers of high value products & services in the physical economy to the agentic web - One of the largest categories of commerce that barely moved online in the internet before AI.