Your need an exit plan for your AI tools · AI-Driven Agent Network

Your need an exit plan for your AI tools

The Meta and Manus story is worth paying attention to.

China reportedly blocked Meta’s $2B acquisition of Manus, an AI agent company, and ordered the deal to be unwound (They had already closed the deal and moved HQ to Singapore.) The details are geopolitical, but the business lesson is simple.

Do not build your whole operating system inside one AI tool.

I’m still bullish on AI agents. I’m using them more, not less. But the more connected these tools become, the more intentional we need to be about access.

If an agent has access to Gmail, Drive, financial docs, and internal strategy, it is no longer just a chatbot. It is sitting on top of your business.

My current rule:

Use AI as a layer on top of your systems, not as the central vault.

Keep the source of truth in systems you control: your CRM, Drive, Notion, transaction files, SOPs, and client records.

Then let AI sit on top of those systems to help you search, summarize, draft, organize, and execute faster.

That’s the line I’m trying to draw.

Use AI for leverage, but keep the business portable.

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